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Turkey's President Erdoğan wants to stick to his plan to buy Russia's S-400 missile defence system, as he stressed after a meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Moscow. The plans are causing tensions within Nato because Russia could potentially obtain sensitive data about the military alliance as a result of the transaction. Commentators also express concern.

The EU member states have granted Britain a new extension until the end of October for Brexit. The majority wanted to extend the deadline until the end of the year but Paris insisted that the delay had to be as short as possible to avoid harming the functioning of the EU. Is the decision a relief or will it only prolong the torment of the Brexit drama?

Following parliamentary elections in Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu's conservative Likud party and its right-wing and religious coalition partners have won a majority of seats in the Knesset, prevailing against challenger Benny Gantz's centrist Blue and White alliance. The Israeli prime minister is facing charges in three cases of corruption, however. Commentators explain Netanyahu's latest election victory.

In Estonia the Centre Party led by Prime Minister Jüri Ratas, the nationalist Ekre party and the conservative Isamaa party have signed a coalition agreement. Ratas rejected a grand coalition with the Reform Party, which won the election. Some commentators are upset that he is teaming up with the far right. Others point to the contradictions in this coalition.

For the first time a group of researchers has succeeded in producing a photo of a black hole. The image was obtained using data from the global network of radio telescopes Event Horizon. Black holes are extremely massive and exert colossal gravitational force. What does the photo mean for science and humanity?