Adem Mbarek, a high-school student held since late September over his role mobilising support for detained members of the Gaza-bound Soumoud flotilla, was released on Tuesday. Al-Somoud, a support group backing the flotilla movement, welcomed the release as "a relief" and renewed its call for the remaining detainees to be freed.
The dollar crossed above 3 Tunisian dinars on the interbank market on Tuesday, a level it had not reached in nearly a year and a half, having gained 2.44 percent over the past month. A stronger dollar raises costs for energy and industrial importers and for servicing foreign debt, while it benefits exporters paid in dollars; analysts caution the milestone may be temporary.
Tunisia caught 41.5 percent more red shrimp than its 2026 quota allowed, prompting the EU to block shipments to Italian markets; Tunisia argues the quota understates its fleet's real capacity. The dispute goes before the Mediterranean's regional fisheries body in Rome from October 26 to 30, which will also set catch rules for 2027.
President Kais Saied met his prime minister and employment minister this week to discuss enforcing Law 18 of 2025, which promises public-sector hiring for graduates who have been unemployed for years, saying "today's unemployed did not become so by choice." The meeting came as graduates who had marched on foot from Sidi Bouzid since September 27 demanding the same law's enforcement were nearing the capital.
At a workshop in Tunis on Wednesday, four ministries and international partners said financing Tunisia's 2026-2035 climate plan will cost about $55 billion, with 74 percent expected to come from abroad. Foreign Minister Mohamed Ali Nafti called for building projects that combine several financing sources rather than seeking money for projects already defined.
Lawmakers in Libya's eastern-based parliament voted out speaker Aguila Saleh, 82, after 12 years in office, replacing him with Al-Salhin Abdelnabi al-Obeidi. Analysts say Saleh had grown weaker as Khalifa Haftar's son Saddam consolidates power in the east.
On October 5, India's Supreme Court ordered the Election Commission to explain a revision that has deleted roughly 130 million names from voter rolls since 2025 and that the commission says targets fraud. Opposition Congress leaders say Muslim and minority communities have been disproportionately hit and accuse Prime Minister Modi's party of orchestrating the exercise, after days of protest.
Russian authorities placed about 190 contacts under quarantine in Siberia's Irkutsk region after researcher Darya Shipilova, 28, died in late September at an institute that studies plague, though the health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor insists she died of 'pneumonia of unknown origin' unrelated to her work. The WHO rated the public health risk low to moderate for the region and very low for Europe, while Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan tightened border checks.
Drones struck two commercial vessels in Bulgaria's exclusive economic zone before dawn on Tuesday, sinking one; its crew remains missing as search and rescue continues. Bulgarian President Rumen Radev called the attack "absolutely unacceptable" and a "flagrant violation of maritime law," and the European Commission pledged solidarity with member states on NATO's eastern flank.
Federal prosecutors arrested August Hanning, 80, who led Germany's foreign intelligence service BND until 2005, along with his former chief of staff, on suspicion of obtaining and passing on state secrets. Investigators say Hanning kept receiving classified BND reports meant for the Chancellery for years after leaving office and used them in his private consultancy work.
Supreme Court judge Pablo Llarena revoked the national arrest warrant against Carles Puigdemont after Spain's Constitutional Court ruled that the 2024 amnesty law covers embezzlement charges tied to Catalonia's 2017 independence referendum. Puigdemont, who has lived abroad since the failed secession bid, can now return to Spain without being arrested immediately.
EU interior ministers and migration commissioner Magnus Brunner have approved plans for 'return hubs' in third countries, a standardised EU-wide deportation order and an expanded Frontex repatriation mandate, aiming to open the first hubs in 2027. Rights groups warn the detention centres risk violations and amount to outsourcing migration enforcement beyond EU legal oversight.
Lawmakers voted 106 to 18 to begin removing Article 137, which has barred foreign military bases and weapons of mass destruction from Lithuanian territory, citing Russia's nuclear build-up in Kaliningrad and Belarus. A final vote is due on January 12, 2027, after a three-month waiting period; Lithuania says it should not be less protected than NATO neighbours Latvia, Estonia and Poland, which have no such restriction.