Potential UK prime minister successor Burnham said he would give young people a clear pathway into the UK’s reindustrialisation process. He said mental-health support should be provided through in-work support.

U.S. officials said technical talks with Iran are expected to continue across areas of a memorandum of understanding. Both sides will, for now, exercise restraint and vessels may transit freely.

China's Central Propaganda Department, Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs recently jointly issued an action plan to reform and upgrade rural family bookhouses and promote village reading. The plan prioritizes tailoring layouts and formats to local conditions, optimizing content supply to meet local demand, innovating delivery models to cultivate a reading culture, and strengthening institutional support; it calls for "bookhouse+" empowerment and flexible "+bookhouse" integration, expanded digital services, development of distinctive brands, encouragement of social-sector participation and publicity to improve bookhouse functions and rural reading service efficiency.