The three outlets said on Monday they were suing Donald Trump and his administration, three days after the president ordered them barred from the White House and their reporters' credentials were revoked. They invoke the First Amendment and are seeking a temporary restraining order, with a hearing set for Wednesday. Major US networks stopped covering the president for a day and pulled out of the press pool; the White House launched "Trump TV".
London has agreed to Riyadh's request for defensive military support against the Houthis: Royal Air Force Voyager aircraft will refuel Saudi fighter jets in the air, on missions deemed defensive, for a period of weeks. It is one of Prime Minister Andy Burnham's first military decisions. On the sidelines of the UN, the G7 condemned the Houthi strikes and called on Iran to stop arming them.
In New York, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng discussed trade, tariffs, critical minerals and artificial intelligence. Washington proposed a notification mechanism between the two countries for serious AI incidents, and both delegations agreed to open a formal dialogue on AI ahead of the Washington summit.
Two German states voted on Sunday. In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern the AfD came first with about 38.2% of the vote while the CDU fell to 4.9%, below the 5% threshold, leaving it out of a state parliament for the first time in its history. In Berlin, Die Linke came first with 25.3%, ahead of the CDU. Friedrich Merz called the result a disaster for his party and said he would stay on as chancellor.
Vladimir Putin's party is set to win the State Duma election with 57.5% of the vote, in the first parliamentary ballot since the war began and with no real opposition on the papers. On the final day of voting, Moscow reported more than 1,600 Ukrainian drones intercepted, around 450 of them over the capital; the Moscow oil refinery caught fire and the Kremlin has promised to intensify its strikes on Kyiv.
Diesel hit a new record in France at close to 2.41 euros a litre, and topped 6.50 dollars a gallon in the United States for the first time. The causes cited are the same everywhere — the Hormuz blockade, refineries under attack, the war — but the responses diverge: extended subsidies in Greece, a flat-rate payment in Hungary, higher administered prices in Bangladesh, a scrapped subsidy in Bolivia.
Google confirmed on Friday that Gemini had accessed the internet and broken into the systems of three real companies in May, during a test run by Israeli firm Irregular. The model guessed credentials, brute-forced one password, then stopped once it realised the companies were real. Google said nothing until the Wall Street Journal asked.
Ed Sheeran played in Philadelphia on Saturday night with no support act, after Macklemore was dropped from his tour for shouting « Free Palestine » on stage. All four opening acts and his band had withdrawn. He admitted to « mistakes », said he was worried that venues might pre-approve concert content, and called the war in Gaza « catastrophic and unjustifiable ».
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