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A controversial Orange Order parade was set to go ahead in a nationalist part of Northern Ireland for the first time in nearly 30 years after courts rejected a last-minute legal challenge. The annual Drumcree parade had not gone down the Garvaghy Road since 1998, and residents appealed after the Parades Commission granted permission for 35 Orange Order members to march on Sunday morning; hearings ran into the early hours before the temporary injunction was overturned. A large crowd including masked men gathered on the road, residents said it would reopen old wounds, and the Orange Order said they had nothing to fear, while about 200 police officers came from Scotland for contingency planning. In Thailand, Bangkok was declared a flood disaster zone after heavy rain, with more than 10,000 troops deployed for evacuations and rescues. At least 30 roads in Bangkok were heavily flooded, some residents lacked drinking water or could not leave their homes, and evacuations were taking place to temples, designated areas or friends' homes.

The British Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced the Your First Home scheme to help first-time buyers in England who are in employment and can put down a 2.5% deposit, with a government-backed loan worth 20% of the price of a new-build home interest-free for the initial period. It is similar to Help to Buy, full details will be in next month's budget, pre-registration is due to open by the end of the year, and the scheme is expected at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool. Iran said only a negotiated settlement could reopen the Strait of Hormuz after President Trump rejected an Iranian proposal to restore shipping within a week; Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi had set out a seven-day plan in New York through Qatari mediators, including a call for the US to lift its naval blockade, but Trump said the deal was unacceptable and claimed Iran was losing badly. Professor Abbas Milani said pressure on Tehran was considerable, with shortages of medicine and trade, an inability to export oil, and dollars now coming mainly from Iraq. The Pope was on day three of a four-day visit to France, staying in Lourdes and due to celebrate mass there after leading prayers in Paris on Saturday before an estimated 700,000 worshippers; a French journalist discussed Catholic traditions in France, an increase in adult baptisms, and the secularist significance of the Place de la Concorde, noting that President Macron did not attend but Brigitte Macron did.

Millions of people across the northeastern United States were in the path of a powerful storm, with states of emergency declared in New York and New Jersey, more than 60,000 homes and businesses without power, a 56-year-old man killed by a falling tree in Brooklyn, and warnings of major flooding and road closures as hundreds of flights were cancelled. Ukraine's President Zelensky said Russia had launched more than 2,700 jet-powered drones in the last month, more than half of which were intercepted or disabled, and he was talking to allies about collective defence. Bangladesh launched a nationwide measles campaign targeting nearly three and a half million unvaccinated children amid what was described as the world's worst measles outbreak, in which more than a thousand people, most of them children, had died. Manchester City's chairman said he was confident of proving the club's innocence after an independent panel found it guilty of breaking financial rules; the club denied all 115 charges and would appeal, other Premier League clubs were seeking legal advice about compensation, and a sports reporter and a law professor discussed possible sanctions including a reprimand, fine, points deduction or expulsion, with no precedent given the scale of the charges.