🇨🇦🇹🇷 Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has commented on defence cooperation with Türkiye, saying on October 23 that Canada is open to both buying Turkish military capabilities and building defence industry partnerships. Speaking to reporters in Istanbul during his visit to Türkiye, Carney discussed energy, defence, Ukraine and trade with the USA. He said Canadian Energy and Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson and Export Development Canada head Alison Nankivell had held talks the day before, that the contacts would continue and that private sector representatives would also meet. On energy, he pointed to Türkiye’s large demand and its wish to diversify supplies, with clean energy at the centre, and said talks on Canadian CANDU reactors had intensified, with the Turkish government possibly deciding toward the end of the year, perhaps around COP31. “I believe about 80 percent of Türkiye’s defence needs are produced here. That is not the case in Canada. We have a lot to learn from Türkiye about what kind of industry we can create in our country,” he said. Carney added that he would lean toward a partnership offering complementary technologies, citing defence cooperation between Türkiye and Ukraine as an example, and noted Türkiye’s progress in drone technology. He said he had discussed support for Ukraine with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, that Canada coordinates that support directly with Ukraine rather than through the EU, and that he had spoken several times in the past week with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy about Ukraine’s defence situation and Starlink. Asked about reports that SpaceX CEO Elon Musk ordered Starlink slowed, he said a slowdown would have humanitarian consequences, including loss of life, and that Canada does not want to depend on a single service provider. He also said Canada has no intention of interfering in US democratic processes, is ready to negotiate a trade deal with the USA and will not become the 51st US state.
📊 🇮🇳 An analysis of police shootings in Uttar Pradesh linked to alleged cow smuggling has found that Muslims accounted for nearly 93% of those injured since 2020. The review, conducted by the Washington-based Center for the Study of Organized Hate and the Associated Press, covered 645 incidents involving 772 victims. In 627 of those cases where names or identifying details were available, researchers were able to assess the victims' backgrounds. The researchers said injuries were frequently to the lower leg just below the knee and that the count, based only on police-publicized incidents, is likely an undercount. The data comes as police encounters have intensified under Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who took office in March 2017. Police figures obtained by the AP show 12,890 injured and 316 killed in encounters through Oct. 13, 2026, including 110 Muslims. Muslims make up about a fifth of the state's population.
🇮🇳 Posters in Lucknow, India, have portrayed Prof. Muhammad Yunus, Elon Musk and other prominent figures as the ten heads of Ravana, accusing them of working against the country's interests. Signed by a group called Sanatan Raksha Sangathan, the posters brand those depicted as Ravanas opposed to Sanatan India. In Hindu tradition, Ravana is the ten-headed king of Lanka described in the Ramayana. He is portrayed as an arrogant, cruel, oppressive and tyrannical ruler who used his power to terrorize sages, abduct women, and dominate others. He is known for his lust, ego, greed, and wickedness, and for his act of abducting Sita, which led to his destruction by Lord Rama.
🇲🇾 Malaysia has banned civil servants from using the navigation app Waze, citing data security concerns over its Israeli origins. Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s office said the measure aims to protect government information and personal data from potential misuse, noting that Waze, owned by Google, was founded in Israel and remains incorporated there.
#Türkiye , #Qatar , #Pakistan and #Indonesia have signed a defense industry cooperation pact called “#Badr” in Doha, Qatar. The deal covers joint production, research and development, and technical military training.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fell further behind former Army Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot in a new opinion poll released Monday, with the opposition politician widening his lead in public perceptions of who is better suited to head the government. The Channel 12 survey found that 45% of respondents considered Eisenkot better suited to serve as prime minister compared with 33% for Netanyahu, widening the gap to 12 percentage points from 10 in the previous poll. The findings come just eight days before Israel’s Oct. 27 parliamentary elections, with Eisenkot’s Yashar party also projected to emerge as the largest in the 120-seat Knesset.
🇬🇧🇵🇸 Green Party of England and Wales leader Zack Polanski has defended his party’s move to equate Zionism with racism, arguing that Zionism is racist in practice. He cited the killing of Palestinians and the consequences of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Speaking on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg on October 18, Polanski was asked whether Israel had a right to exist. He responded that international law does not grant states an inherent right to exist, while maintaining that people do have that right.
⛓️🇵🇸 More than 1,500 Palestinian detainees held by Israel are seriously ill, with some suffering from life-threatening conditions amid inadequate medical treatment, according to the Palestine Center for Prisoners’ Studies. The centre called for international medical teams to visit the detainees urgently and urged investigations into deaths attributed to medical neglect.
🇵🇸 Palestinian children struggled to breathe after Israeli forces fired tear gas canisters directly at their family’s car during a raid on Aqraba, southeast of Nablus in the occupied West Bank. The canisters shattered the car’s windows.
🇵🇸 An Israeli soldier was seen pinning down the head of a blindfolded and bound elderly Palestinian man inside his home during a raid in the occupied West Bank. The soldier used the man as a prop for a social media photograph.
💰 According to Channel 12, the Israeli government has approved a plan to cut 2.6 billion shekels, equivalent to $840 million, from ministry budgets and redirect the funds to the defence establishment.