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Diesel prices topped two pounds a litre in the UK as G7 leaders agreed to release 100 million barrels of diesel and crude oil reserves over four months, coordinated by the International Energy Agency, after Donald Trump threatened to cut US diesel exports unless Europe released reserves. The report said the US had record diesel prices, the UK imports more than half its diesel, and the Chancellor would set the future of the fuel-duty freeze in the Budget. Riot police clashed with high school students across France in protests over classroom conditions that began in the Paris region, spread nationally, and grew increasingly violent, with hundreds injured and about 2,000 arrested; teachers unions called a mass strike for next Tuesday. In Northern Ireland, a six-day standoff continued over an Orange Order parade on Garvaghy Road, with a new legal appeal due Monday; First Minister Michelle O'Neill said she would stand with residents, while the DUP said nothing was off the table and the Secretary of State urged calm.

At the Green Party conference in Brighton, Zack Polanski said election victories had pushed Labour towards a more progressive agenda, set out a policy to control private rent rises modeled on the pensions triple lock, and said the Greens would tax the wealthiest; a motion declaring Zionism is racism was debated, with Caroline Lucas calling it divisive and Polanski saying he wanted it amended to safeguard Jewish members. Separately, a 28-year-old man accused of murdering Reform UK spokesperson Ann Widdecombe had also been charged with preparation of terrorist acts against Nigel Farage, according to counterterrorism policing. Brazil's presidential election campaign, ahead of Sunday's first round, saw Lula and Flavio Bolsonaro boycott a TV debate, with reporting from the campaign trail focusing on narco gangs, violence, Trump's declaration of two drug gangs as terrorist organisations, and evangelical voters. The broadcast also reported an Indian pilot stabbed by his co-pilot on a Flydubai flight to Tel Aviv saying he was determined to save the 174 passengers, and New York's governor supporting closure of a loophole on voluntary intoxication in sexual assault cases after a Cornell student's civil lawsuit.

In Wales, Plaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth addressed his party's first conference as first minister, calling for more powers over policing, rail infrastructure, and the Crown Estate, a new deal for Wales, and equal footing with Scotland, while acknowledging pressures on health and education and difficult decisions ahead. Manchester City filed an appeal after an independent commission found it guilty of serious breaches of the Premier League's financial rules over nine seasons, with the club saying it was innocent and the ruling contained material errors of law, principle, and fact; possible sanctions included points deductions, relegation, or expulsion.