Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Istanbul on Saturday for talks he described as important, as Kyiv pushes to move towards a negotiated end to the war with Russia next month.
India has successfully launched its next-generation navigation satellite NVS-03, restoring the minimum four-satellite strength of its indigenous NavIC system and marking the 20th flight of the GSLV rocket.
Dallas Federal Reserve President Lorie Logan has said the US central bank needs at least two more quarter-point rate rises to bring inflation under control, even though policymakers voted this week to hold rates steady.
OpenAI has cut the target for its latest funding round by $10 billion to $20 billion, according to a Financial Times report relayed by Reuters, in a sign of cooler investor appetite at the very top of the artificial intelligence market.
Poland’s foreign minister has called for a swift ceasefire in the Black Sea to allow grain shipments from Ukraine and Russia to move safely, warning that people in the Global South need the grain urgently.
More than 160,000 people are expected to join youth-led demonstrations in 34 German cities on Saturday, demanding better education and lower living costs, as authorities prepare for a largely peaceful day while warning against attempts to exploit the movement.
China’s official manufacturing PMI fell to 49.3 in October from 50.1 in September, slipping back into contraction as soft demand, including for exports, weighed on factories, official data showed on Saturday.
Overseas firms winning major UK defence contracts worth more than £50 million will have to deliver benefits at home worth up to the full contract value, under a new offsets policy starting in April 2027.
Ireland will establish a government body to research and prepare for the possibility of Irish unity for the first time, Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said, in a significant shift in Dublin’s approach to the island’s constitutional future.
France will deploy 70,000 police and gendarmes for protests on Saturday, 31 October, after ministers warned of a very high risk of disorder as anger over the cost of living and public services spreads.
