Germany's Chancellor MERZ said the EU should step up its focus in the Arctic to complement NATO's efforts.

Iran's Mehr news agency said on Sunday that President Trump sought to justify, in the agency's wording, costly US aggression against Iran that has provoked economic problems by claiming "Iran is willing to make a deal at any cost, but I will not sign any imperfect deal." Mehr called the assertion "absurd," saying it masks the failure of the aggression and Iran's economic difficulties. Trump added the war with Iran would end before or shortly after the US midterm elections.

The New York Times reported King Charles III will meet AI industry leaders this week at Dumfries House in southwest Scotland to discuss socially beneficial development and deployment. Buckingham Palace said attendees will include NVIDIA, Google, DeepMind, OpenAI and ANTHROPIC alongside government officials. The meeting comes as AI insiders and some company leaders warn rapid, unchecked development could pose global risks and have urged shared guidelines and a deliberate slowdown to give society time to adapt.