The Russian government has, by decree, closed multiple border crossings with Latvia, Finland and Estonia.

METI will provide ¥387.3 billion (approx 16.2 billion yuan) as 2026 fiscal-year development commission fees to a new SoftBank-led company, Noetra, to develop a domestic AI foundation model. The support targets physical-AI R&D that combines robotics and AI to strengthen Japan’s manufacturing competitiveness. Noetra, formed around SoftBank, NEC, Honda and Sony, will focus on high-level Japanese-language understanding and reasoning and on multimodal foundation models that recognise images, video, audio and physical space. The project has been selected for support by NEDO.

Spain's current account balance in April was €1.88 bln; the prior month was revised down from €4.61 bln to €4.20 bln.