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At the Reform UK party conference in Birmingham, the party faced fallout from an undercover Channel 4 investigation that showed two senior aides arranging for a US company to fund party polls costing over £30,000. Both aides stepped down, and Nigel Farage denied any wrongdoing, describing the footage as entrapment by far-left activists and asserting that no illegal money was taken and the polls were not commissioned by Reform. He also announced a memorandum of understanding with France's National Rally leader Jordan Bardella, committing a future French government to taking back small boat arrivals, as the controversy threatened to overshadow the conference.

In the United States, the jury in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial remained deadlocked after several days of deliberations, with the defence and prosecution arguing over whether one juror should be removed. The judge and defence lawyer clashed over how to handle the deadlock. In Nepal, rescue crews pulled two workers alive from a hydropower tunnel nine days after flash floods that killed more than 1,200 people, and the town of Trishuli was relying on a makeshift bridge across a river after 32 bridges were destroyed.

The judge in the Clancy trial later declared a mistrial after the jury again reported being unable to reach a verdict. The defence requested an emergency stay to appeal the declaration to the Supreme Judicial Court, and the judge gave an hour before bringing the jury back.