Trump posted early on 14 October 2026 that massive oil, gas and mineral exploration in Greenland is about to start. A senior Greenlandic economy ministry official says extensive exploration is still far off.
King Felipe VI closed his two-day visit to Ceuta and Melilla on Wednesday, 14 October, with a message on sovereignty and the EU border. The Melilla leg included a ceremony at the Assembly, a school visit and crowds of thousands in Plaza de España.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni called the Trump-Putin diesel arrangement very risky in a Senate address on Wednesday, 14 October, while German Chancellor Friedrich Merz also rejected it. Moscow dismissed her criticism, and Ukraine's energy truce remains unconfirmed.
The White House pushed Kimberly Guilfoyle out as US ambassador to Greece after Wall Street Journal reports alleged she sought $100,000 from a Republican donor. Her lawyers say the request was a legitimate debt collection.
Tokyo has summoned Russia's ambassador over the detention of Yuki Imai, a Hokkaido Shimbun reporter held in Sakhalin on espionage suspicion. Japan is pressing Moscow for information and fair treatment, but officials have not yet reached him.
The US Treasury removed Jorge Rodríguez, brother of acting president Delcy Rodríguez, from its sanctions list on Wednesday, 14 October 2026, without giving reasons. The step follows the January 2026 capture of Nicolás Maduro and a series of earlier easing measures.
Beijing accepted an annual export quota on Chinese hybrid cars to the EU, a deal struck in the week of 5 October. Germany now backs tougher EU action, and EU leaders take up the issue at a Brussels summit on Thursday, 15 October.
Zelensky told Piers Morgan on Wednesday, 14 October 2026, that Trump's stance is painful and that he feels betrayed, though he called the matter more complicated than his own emotions. The remarks came during his visit to London.
MS NOW reported that Kash Patel arrived on Wednesday, 14 October, for two days of talks in Moscow and St Petersburg. Neither the FBI nor the White House has confirmed the visit, and the Kremlin has released no details.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni told the Senate that the US understanding on Russian diesel carries clear risks, and that the fuel price spike stems mainly from the war in Iran rather than Ukraine.
El País revealed that Moroccan navy vessels entered Spanish waters off Ceuta during the late-July migrant surge. The opposition PP wants Pedro Sánchez to explain it to parliament, and the European Commission declined to judge the incursion.
Rights groups say a 23-year-old accounting student held in Mashhad was sentenced to death for blasphemy, and a separate case added more than 12 years in prison.
Colombia opened its embassy in Jerusalem on Wednesday, 14 October 2026, becoming the tenth embassy in the city. Israel welcomed the move, while Saudi Arabia called it a violation of international law.
Speaking at an OECD conference on Tuesday, 13 October, Jean-Noël Barrot also warned that foreign actors are trying to destabilise France before its 2027 presidential election.
The step came a day after all 27 member states approved it, and a few hours after Ukraine adopted a minority-education law that Hungary had demanded in return for lifting its veto.
Washington announced sanctions against the International Criminal Court as an institution hours after Navi Pillay, a former ICC judge, was named 2026 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Trump criticized the committee's choice.
Marine Le Pen wants to cut France's EU contribution by 11 billion euros in her first year if elected, while Bruno Retailleau seeks a negotiated rebate. Both positions come before EU leaders meet in Brussels on 15 and 16 October to discuss the seven-year budget.
The EU's foreign ministers formally approved the listings on Monday, 12 October 2026, lifting the total of people and entities sanctioned over the war in Ukraine to nearly 4,600. The move follows a US-Russia diesel arrangement that European governments criticised.
Ukraine's parliament passed a minority-language education law that Hungary set as a condition for EU talks. Ireland's Thomas Byrne said all member states agreed to open two clusters for Ukraine and Moldova, formally due on Tuesday, 13 October.
Sefcovic says the understanding opens the prospect of cutting Chinese hybrid and plug-in hybrid exports to the EU by more than half, and leaders of all 27 member states still have to approve it.
Russia's Foreign Ministry summoned Belgium's ambassador to Moscow, Michel Gerebtzoff, on Tuesday, 13 October 2026, rejecting Belgian claims of Russian sabotage and hybrid threats. The federal government in Brussels declined to comment.
Warsaw says it will not accept a Commission plan to route 30% of ETS auction revenue into the EU budget, and RMF FM reports it could block the 2028-2034 package. The issue is on the agenda of the European Council summit on 15 and 16 October.
US prosecutors charged Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores with conspiracy to commit torture on Thursday, while a federal judge refused Flores's request for release from jail on health grounds.
Seven diplomats will remain in East Jerusalem after Britain agreed to rename its consulate a UK Mission, a compromise that avoids a full closure ordered by Israel over West Bank settlement sanctions.
Andy Burnham says the Kremlin was involved in the 2016 referendum and wants a reset with Brussels at a summit on 20 November. Downing Street says he accepts the result as legitimate.
Speaking at the ancient Pnyx in Athens and at the city airport before departing for Portugal, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio pressed European allies to increase defense investments and reclaim civilizational confidence.
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico called on European Parliament leadership to dismantle a 2.6-meter gold-leaf sculpture of Donald Trump displayed in Strasbourg, labeling the satirical installation an insult to an allied leader.
US military commanders ordered a 30-day curfew and a 48-hour alcohol ban for personnel in Okinawa after the arrest of a 20-year-old Marine suspected of killing a local woman in Naha.
The European Commission adopted a pre-enlargement reform package that introduces qualified majority voting for accession steps and a 15-year rule-of-law safeguard without modifying existing EU treaties.
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz exchanged ratification papers in Berlin on Thursday, formalizing bilateral ties and agreeing on joint defense measures against hybrid attacks.
South Korea pledged legal action if domestic laws were broken during reported shipments of over 176,000 tonnes of fuel to Russia, following claims by Kyiv that the cargoes alleviated wartime energy shortages.
Trump said before leaving for an Alaska rally that Poland wants to build the base and will pay for it. A United Surveys poll for Wirtualna Polska found 88.6% support for a permanent US base.
A Bertelsmann Stiftung poll of 16,795 people in all EU member states found 83% of Ukrainians want their country to join the EU in the coming years, against 47% of EU citizens. In Germany, support fell to 41%.
Seoul recalled Ambassador Park Ki-chang following Volodymyr Zelenskyy's public disclosure of two North Korean prisoners transferred to South Korea, rejecting Kyiv's initial apology.
Devlet Bahçeli, leader of the Nationalist Action Party (MHP) and a government partner of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, told his parliamentary group that Greece cannot feel safe whatever alliances, agreements or weapons it acquires. He also targeted the planned Greece-Cyprus-Israel electricity interconnector and Athens' defence cooperation with Israel.
Vladimir Putin told Masoud Pezeshkian on Thursday 8 October that Russia is ready to do everything possible to help resolve the conflict with the United States and Israel. The talks took place in Avaza, Turkmenistan, on the sidelines of a Commonwealth of Independent States summit.
Germany, Italy and Belgium want member states to be able to halt new EU laws seen as overly burdensome for governments and business. The proposal, set out in a letter to Council President António Costa, comes days before the leaders' summit on 15 and 16 October.
Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said on 12 October 2026 that economic cooperation with Poland, Lithuania and Latvia could help avoid war, while complaining that Polish buyers are not taking Belarusian firewood and pellets. Poland's competition regulator, UOKiK, has warned the energy ministry about the pellet market three times this year.
Mykhailo Tkach was detained on 8 October while tracking former prosecutor general Ruslan Kravchenko. Austria's interior minister says four Ukrainians, including Tkach and his cameraman, were arrested this week on espionage suspicion.
Argentina has filed a legal claim with the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to stop oil and gas exploration north of the Falklands, while the UK has asked Interpol to reject Argentine arrest requests linked to the Sea Lion project.