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Prosecutors have formally opened a terrorism inquiry into the Kraków shooting, but say motive and ideology remain unresolved.

The prime minister’s label and a minister’s ideological assessment frame the attack; neither establishes why it happened.

Jakub Kumoch and Paweł Soloch resigned after the tribunal leadership was temporarily relieved of duty; the foreign minister criticized the departures.

Urgent talks, ambassador resignations and calls for restraint have broadened the constitutional confrontation beyond the court.

A joint Canada–EU declaration explicitly granting associate-member status by 30 October is the 25% event; the draft instead promises closer association.

Police killed a teenage knife attacker after an officer was wounded outside Israel’s embassy in Belgrade; an investigation is under way.

France pledged admissions changes, university places, grants and repair funding; unions said students would resume mobilisation and reported more public-secondary jobs.

Vučić concedes defeat as reported counts put the student-led list ahead; final certification and government formation remain to come.

Polling has begun in Serbia’s snap parliamentary election, with Vucic’s right-wing Serbian Progressive Party and a youth-backed list described as close.

The first officer facing potential prosecution is suspended and disarmed as high-school students demand funding for run-down schools.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control designated the court itself on October 9, cutting U.S. finance and technology ties on a six-month wind-down.

Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez ordered a temporary halt to stun grenades in France's lycée protests after a 15-year-old lost a hand in Lens on Monday.

An investigating judge of Germany's Federal Court of Justice put arrest warrants into effect against August Hanning and Manfred D.; both are in custody on espionage and treason allegations.

IEA members accelerated leftover March oil stocks and put diesel first. 55% a dated withdrawal is posted by October 22.

Germany's Saxony-Anhalt parliament elected Tobias Rausch president on 48 secret votes, four beyond AfD and BSW, the first AfD Landtag president.

Germany's Saxony-Anhalt parliament was due to sit in Magdeburg with AfD's Tobias Rausch nominated for president on BSW's five votes; the ballot was not in.

Education Minister Édouard Geffray halted Monday lessons fully or partly at 400 to 500 high schools after security conditions went unmet.

Banned from office, Milorad Dodik declared his party the winner while Bosnia's election commission was still counting. The campaign stayed his even after the ballot did not.

France's interior minister put Friday detentions at 1,747 and this week's above 5,000, calling the unrest a slide into urban violence.

France-chaired leaders said the release starts immediately over four months, diesel first. The call is 0.62 by 6 October.

The Guardian attributed the Thursday count to lycée students aged 15 to 18, part of nearly 3,000 held since the protests began. The BBC put injured officers at 305; the government later called the demonstrations urban violence.

On Sunday Aleksandar Vucic formally left Serbia’s presidency before his second term ended, and Al Jazeera records the move as a bid for the prime minister’s post in a snap parliamentary election on October 25.

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern's returning officer put AfD at 38.2 percent and 32 seats, SPD at 35.5 percent and 29. CDU finished at 4.9 percent, below the five-percent bar. Berlin's table put Die Linke first at 25.7 percent.

After a TER derailed in Normandy, a prosecutor's statement said the record did not yet allow investigators to call it a malicious act or an attack, cutting against politicians who had already used that frame.

The call is 46 percent that Kristersson's side can convert Sweden Democrat support into cabinet authority after voting, with the decisive test moving from campaign promises to a public government-formation path.

Emmanuel Moulin's intervention narrows Jean-Luc Melenchon's proposal to treaty authority, default treatment and the budget assumptions France still has to publish.

A 52.8% majority refused to reopen accession negotiations. The advisory result leaves the 2009 application dormant, while Kristrún Frostadóttir says her government will keep talks closed through the term ending in 2028.

MTI said Paks Unit 3 turbine No. 6 was synchronised late Saturday and began producing. Péter Magyar said four of eight turbines were running on Sunday and that the plant could reach 2,000 MW by Wednesday. Cernavodă, on the same river, did not reconnect. That 23 August call settles NO.

Swedish police were called at 14:06 to Brinellskolan in Fagersta after an assailant with a sword wounded people on a high-school site. Region Västmanland said two boys under 18 were seriously injured. One suspect was detained.

The Council struck Article 1 while the under-15 policy remains politically alive, leaving lawmakers with the constitutional defect it exposed: an age-proof system whose terms were unspecified even as every adult would have had to pass through it.

Spain deployed troops as the enclave filled, but 48,300 people had voluntarily returned to Morocco by nightfall. Public evidence still cannot establish whether Rabat engineered the surge or simply lost control.

Europe has invited bids for up to seven AI gigafactories, with awards due in early 2027 and operations targeted within 18 months of signature. The €30 billion headline remains a funding target whose chips, grid works, sites and private capital still have to be assembled.

The EU sent seven planes and four helicopters into France, then six planes, 134 firefighters and 41 vehicles into Spain. A new heat pulse is testing both fronts at once.

France and Spain have moved more than a quarter-million people from fire zones. The emergency is now a contest between expanding perimeters and the roads, shelters and crews available to empty them.

USTR’s final Section 301 action took effect today against specified products from 60 economies. Covered EU goods receive a net-of-MFN tariff treatment, leaving no extra levy where the existing rate is already at least 10%.