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U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson said he had reservations about a planned livestreamed execution in an interview broadcast by CBS News on Monday.

An Australian minister condemned on Tuesday as “absolutely disgusting” US plans for a public execution by military firing squad to be livestreamed.

Saudi Arabia has launched an investigation to determine how its air defences failed to intercept a barrage of missiles and drones fired by Iran-backed Houthi rebels, including an attack on Riyadh airport that killed at least 13 people and wounded over 300, two regional officials said Monday.

Emergency help for Christa Pike was delayed by confusion among first responders and Tennessee prison officials following her failed lethal injection last month, according to 911 dispatch recordings reviewed by The Associated Press.

Canada is joining more than two dozen other countries in denouncing Iran’s apparent involvement in a planned attack on an air base in England.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that Russia has continued to strike Ukraine’s energy facilities even after U.S. President Donald Trump said a day earlier that the warring countries had agreed on an energy ceasefire in the 4 1/2-year-old war.

Brazilian presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro is set to visit his father, former president Jair Bolsonaro, who is under house arrest, after a judge authorized the visit on Monday.

Saudi forces have responded to a drone and cruise missile attack, state-run media reported Monday.

Only a week after Christa Pike survived a failed execution, her attorneys appeared in a Nashville courthouse to take the first steps in what will likely be a protracted legal battle to prevent a second attempt to put her to death.

U.S. federal agents on Monday searched the home of Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, a startling escalation in a criminal investigation that brings renewed scrutiny to the frequent target of Trump administration derision in the final weeks of her reelection bid.

Tensions escalated during a youth flag football game in Revere on Saturday when an argument between a referee and a coach became physical.

The Vatican said Pope Leo XIV will be admitted to the hospital on Tuesday ahead of surgery to remove a lung nodule, providing an unusual level of transparency about papal health under the American pope.

Elon Musk, the world’s only trillionaire, has quietly become the biggest known donor in this year’s midterm elections, doling out more than US$276 million since July to try to save Republican majorities in Congress.

Russia’s attempts to meddle in European politics show why Britain must forge a closer relationship with the European Union, U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham said Monday, arguing that “the status quo is not good enough.”