The foreign ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council states and their Iranian counterpart Abbas Aragchi met over breakfast in Doha on Thursday on the margins of the third Asian Cooperation Dialogue summit, in which Iran and the Gulf countries took part.

Riyadh last week hosted four high-level meetings with four of the original five BRICS members. Although not planned that way, the meetings with BRICS members indicated how the Gulf Cooperation Council countries are balancing their strategic partnerships.

On Oct. 1, Indonesia’s President-elect Prabowo Sobianto is scheduled to take office after a landslide win in June. Prabowo, as he is known, is the current defense minister and has pledged to continue the policies of President Joko Widodo, known as Jokowi.

The Republican Convention gave Donald Trump’s campaign a boost on Monday as it endorsed him as expected. The pomp and circumstance of party solidarity was especially enthusiastic coming just days after the attack on the former president.

Hungary will next week assume the rotating EU presidency, to the chagrin of many European leaders, who consider the country to be an outlier, to say the least, in terms of domestic governance, immigration and foreign policy, including the war in Ukraine and relations with Russia.