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The broadcast began with Hurricane Isaias making landfall near Destin, Florida, on the US Gulf Coast as a Category 2 storm, after peaking at Category 3, with people in the Florida Panhandle told to seek immediate shelter under an extreme wind warning. A hurricane hazard modeller described rapid intensification, noted it was the first hurricane of the season in the North Atlantic Basin and unusually late, and warned of high winds, power outages affecting more than 400,000 customers across Alabama and Florida, storm surges around seven feet, heavy rainfall reaching 15 inches, compound coastal flooding, and tornado watches, with storm surge especially dangerous around high tide. President Donald Trump then announced a deal to import Russian diesel as he faced pressure to lower fuel prices, saying President Putin had agreed to release 300,000 tons immediately to the American and global marketplace, followed by 500,000 tons in November and another million after that. The Kremlin acknowledged the deal, while Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky called it a gift to Putin and an investment in a war that must be ended rather than prolonged. An analyst said the diesel amount might not materially alter the shortage but could signal relief to markets, and that the move carried diplomatic and political costs, including for NATO and sanctions policy.

The Northern Ireland Secretary confirmed that a parade by the Orange Order would be banned after nearly two weeks of standoff. The march from Drumcree Church along the Garvaghy Road in Portadown had been given the go-ahead last month after being outlawed for 28 years, but hundreds of demonstrators blocked the road and it did not go ahead. The Northern Ireland Secretary, Sir Chris Bryant, said the chief constable had told him it could not happen without a major intervention carrying an unacceptable risk of serious injury and disorder, and used legal powers to determine the march could not now go ahead, saying circumstances had changed considerably. Sinn Féin said there was enormous relief, the Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin welcomed the decision, and the DUP said the rule of law had been fundamentally undermined. Northern Ireland's First Minister Michelle O'Neill, who took part in the protest, called it the right decision and said it should have been taken at the start. Officials from the United Arab Emirates said the co-pilot who mounted an attack on a flydubai flight to Israel last week began drifting towards extremism while studying in Australia. A reporter said the pilot, named as Hamam al-Hamami, 29, had intended a terrorist attack and to fly the plane into Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport; he had studied engineering in Melbourne without completing it, and deleted social media posts described his time studying in Australia, the UK and New Zealand as golden years of religious discovery. Tens of thousands of security forces were deployed in Delhi as an influential party was due to hold a major protest seeking electoral reforms and the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over allegations of manipulating voters' lists; the Election Commission denied the allegations, Kumar had not commented, police denied permission, and roads to Jantar Mantar were closed with metal barricades.

One year after a ceasefire was agreed in the Gaza Strip, nearly daily Israeli strikes continued and pro-Palestinian rallies were planned around the world, including London. BBC Arabic's Mohamed Taha said the ceasefire existed only on paper, the Palestinian news agency put the number killed in military operations over the last year at 1,400, about five a day, and there was a stalled peace with schools closed, hospitals collapsed, millions living in tents, and stalled movement on Israeli withdrawal and Hamas disarmament. He said humanitarian efforts were largely controlled by Israeli authorities, grassroots efforts were insufficient, hospitals lacked medical equipment, and unless the ceasefire moved to a second phase the situation would remain a holding pattern waiting for the next spark. A Mexican judge found three men guilty in the murder of three surfers in Baja California, two Australian brothers and an American friend who went missing during a 2024 camping and surfing trip; their bodies were found down a well after what prosecutors called an attempted robbery, with charges including robbery, aggravated homicide and vehicle theft, and prosecutors seeking up to 150 years. There was condemnation of a US proposal to impose financial sanctions on the International Criminal Court; the UN Secretary-General called it a serious blow to international criminal justice, and the sanctions were announced hours after former ICC Judge Navi Pillay won the Nobel Peace Prize, prompting President Trump to say at a campaign rally that the prize had been discredited and that Norway had failed to recognize what he called the greatest record in history. In a new BBC documentary, the Queen spoke about her love of reading and appeared alongside people whose lives had been transformed by books, describing reading as a quiet pastime she and the King often shared before dinner and saying it would be a tragedy if books disappeared.