Türkiye has issued heavy rain and storm warnings for 45 provinces, with downpours expected to intensify in Istanbul on Oct. 17 following this week’s deadly flooding.

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Oct. 16 waiving most penalties under a new Russia sanctions law, two days before the measures were due to take effect.

Türkiye has been left outside a Franco-German automotive proposal announced on Oct. 16 that would give Britain conditional access to the EU’s planned “Made in EU” support scheme.

Iran on Oct. 16 denied having anything to do with attacks by Yemen's Houthis, a day after Saudi Arabia accused it of having encouraged the group's recent escalation against the kingdom.

Türkiye has issued a counter-NAVTEX challenging a Greek navigational notice for the Eunomia military exercise in the eastern Mediterranean, in waters overlapping the planned route of an undersea electricity cable.