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President Zelensky dismissed the commander of the armed forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi, days after removing defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov, which triggered mass protests across Ukraine. Zelensky replaced Syrskyi with a younger general, Mykhailo Drapatyi, who is a friend of the ousted minister. The US defence secretary told a Senate committee the war with Iran has cost $37.5 billion and asked for additional funding, warning that military training would be curtailed without it. US strikes on Iranian military sites continued for an 11th consecutive night, and President Trump suggested targeting an underground site near a nuclear facility, which Iran called a major escalation.

Prime Minister Andy Burnham chaired his first cabinet meeting, promising to lead a cost-of-living government and announcing a VAT cut on household energy bills from October, to be funded by scrapping Sir Keir Starmer's digital ID scheme. France became the first EU country to ban children under 15 from using social media, requiring platforms to implement age verification for new accounts from September and for existing accounts by January. The man accused of murdering former minister Ann Widdecombe appeared in court, with prosecutors alleging he struck her 21 times with a hammer in an attack captured on her kitchen camera.

India's opposition leader Rahul Gandhi called for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to resign after a police crackdown on student protests in Delhi left 180 injured. The Spanish military joined efforts to tackle a huge wildfire north of Madrid that has burned over 100 square miles. The criminal prosecution of ousted Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro continued in a New York court, while residents in Venezuela dealt with the aftermath of a deadly earthquake, with many more concerned about rebuilding their lives than the trial.