A 23-year-old Russian diplomat, whose father is a senior Russian diplomat, has allegedly been linked to last year's arson attacks against British Prime Minister Keir Starmer following an investigation by the BBC.

Electronic evidence gathered by the news outlet suggests that a Ukrainian man convicted Monday in last year’s attacks was working under the paid direction of Evgeny Lyukshin, who corresponded using the initials EL.

“We do not know for sure if Evgeny Lyukshin is EL. Lyukshin did not respond when we contacted him setting out the evidence that he is,” the BBC reported Monday. “But he was in the fake far-right group created by Russian operatives to cause hatred in the UK, his details match EL, he is trained in information warfare, and surrounded by Putin allies.”

Among Lyukshin’s background is his study of “information warfare” as part of a program created at the direction of the Kremlin that’s taught by spies and close allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to the news outlet.

Two men were found guilty on Monday of conspiring to carry out the arson attacks after being offered payment by a Russian-speaking person, the trial heard. Authorities said there was no evidence the defendants knew who they were targeting in the attacks.

President Donald Trump has landed in Évian-les-Bains and is now headed to the venue of the G7 summit.

The president was greeted by Charles Kushner, the U.S. ambassador to France, upon his arrival.

President Donald Trump has landed in Geneva, Switzerland, ahead of a G7 leaders summit in nearby France.

Trump disembarked Air Force One ahead of a planned bilateral meeting Monday on the shores of Lake Geneva. French President Emmanuel Macron is hosting the event in Evian-les-Bains, which is scheduled to conclude on Wednesday.

The G7 includes France, the United States, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom. Also in attendance, as guests, are Brazil, Egypt, India, Kenya, South Korea, Qatar, Syria, Ukraine, and the United Arab Emirates.

Vice President JD Vance told CBS News that the White House plans to release “the full text” of the peace deal with Iran sometime this week and that a lot of the details on how the agreement will be executed still need to be hammered out.

“Sometimes with these agreements there are some diplomatic protocols, some technical things to work out, but we plan to release the full text this week,” he said.

The deal ultimately will ensure that “Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, while simultaneously opening the Strait of Hormuz,” he said.

He went on to deny some details reported by the Iranian media about the deal, including that Iran will receive $24 billion if they hit certain benchmarks. That figure is not “anywhere in the text,” he said.

In a separate interview with CNBC, he said he expects the Strait of Hormuz will open without tolls for “the long term.”

“A lot of those details will be figured out during those 60-day talks,” he said of weeks-long negotiations expected to follow the deal’s signing.

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A Ukrainian man was found guilty on Monday of carrying out arson attacks on property connected to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in May last year on behalf of a mystery figure he knew only as "EL Money".

Over five days last ‌May, police were called to fires at a house in north London connected to Starmer, another at a property nearby where he had previously lived, and to a blaze involving a Toyota car that also once belonged to the British leader.

Roman Lavrynovych, 22, was found guilty at London's Old Bailey Court of two counts of committing arson being reckless as to whether life was endangered. He was acquitted of two counts of committing arson with intent to risk life.

Lavrynovych and Romanian national Stanislav Carpiuc, 27, who was born in Ukraine, were found guilty of conspiracy to commit arson. Fellow Ukrainian Petro Pochynok, 35, was acquitted of the same charge.

They will be sentenced on Friday.

The jury was told Lavrynovych had been offered payment to carry out arson attacks by an account on Telegram, which used the name "EL Money".

EL Money contacted him in both Russian and Ukrainian. Prosecutors did not state who or what entity was believed to be behind the account.

"It is no part of your considerations to decide who 'EL Money' is and what reason he might have had to co-ordinate the actions of these defendants against these properties and this car associated with the prime minister," prosecutor Duncan Atkinson said at the start of the trial.

Helen Flanagan, head of counter-terrorism policing in London, said there was no evidence Russia was behind the attacks.

President Donald Trump said ships, “many loaded up with oil,” are starting to move out of the Strait of Hormuz following news of a peace agreement with Iran.

“They are going along the Southern ‘Highway,’ which is totally safe, secure, and pristine. There are other areas of travel, also!!!” he posted on Truth Social.

President Donald Trump praised last night’s UFC fight at the White House as “incredible” and all of the fighters as “unbelievable,” while continuing to stay silent on one victor’s vile attack on former first lady Michelle Obama while accepting his win.

“The Fighters were outstanding — Bo Nickal, Justin Gaethje, Ciryl Gane, Sean O’Malley, Josh Hokit, Mauricio Ruffy, and Diego Lopes were all unbelievable!” he said in a Truth Social post Monday.

“The White House has never looked more beautiful. The setting was unsurpassed!” Trump went on, while calling the event “one of the most exciting days in the History of our fabled White House!”

Hokit, who has a long history of making racist statements and faces allegations of domestic violence, took the microphone after his win to call the former first lady a man, repeating a right-wing conspiracy theory that he’s also flung against a Black WNBA star.

UFC President Dana White reportedly objected to Hokit’s remark about the former first lady in a text message to Time.

“I understand that the Obama’s are public figures but I’m completely against saying nasty and false things about people’s families,” he wrote.

French President Emmanuel Macron pushed back on Donald Trump's threat to impose a 100% tariff on French wine unless he removes a 3% levy on U.S. tech companies.

"This digital tax, decided by Europeans, implemented by several countries, is part of our law," Macron told French TV channel TF1, according to Reuters. "It's not the United States that decides on the Europeans' law."

Trump ordered Macron to remove the tax in an interview with The New York Post.

"All [Macron] has to do is get rid of the sales tax, and he wouldn’t have that kind of pressure," the president said.

Donald Trump has been disparaging America's allies from afar for refusing to take part in the war he launched against Iran. On Monday afternoon, he will get a chance to do so to their faces.

That’s when the president is to arrive at the Group of Seven summit, the annual forum of the world's largest democratic economies, whose other six members have been on the receiving end of Trump’s insults for not sending ships and planes to the Persian Gulf to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz to oil tanker traffic and resolve the global energy crisis that his war created.

And while Trump is known for generating conflict even in calm times, this meeting will feature national leaders likely as irritated with Trump as he is with them for creating a mess that has made life for their citizens even more difficult than Trump has made it for Americans. Running the program, in fact, is French President Emmanuel Macron, who has been open with his criticism of Trump’s war.

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Fox Corp. has reached a deal to acquire Roku in an agreement worth approximately $22 billion, the two companies announced on Monday.

"This is a defining moment for FOX, and a natural extension of the deliberate and focused strategy we have been executing for nearly a decade," Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch said in a statement.

President Donald Trump has demanded that Emmanuel Macron remove his country's 3% tax on U.S. tech companies, warning his French counterpart that failure to execute his directive will result in new U.S. tariffs on French wines.

"I asked him not to charge American companies, and if they do, I have no choice but to charge a 100% tariff on all Champagnes and all wines coming out of France," Trump told The New York Post in an interview published early Monday.

All Macron "has to do is get rid of the sales tax, and he wouldn’t have that kind of pressure," the president added.

Trump's comments come ahead of his arrival in Europe for the G7 summit hosted by France.

The U.S. currently levies a 15% tariff on wines imported from the European Union into the U.S.

Ensuring the Strait of Hormuz is safe from mines could delay a return to normal shipping traffic by weeks following a deal to reopen the waterway, shipping and maritime security sources say.

The operation by conventional minesweepers and state-of-the-art underwater drones could continue for 40 to 50 days before many insurance, shipping or oil companies are confident enough to sail through, according to assessments from five Western maritime security sources.

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Britain will ban children under 16 from using a range of social media apps including Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube to protect young people from harmful content and excessive screen time, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Monday,

Starmer told a news conference that he will fight back if technology companies resist the move, and acknowledged some teens would try to find their way around a ban. But he said he is "not prepared to compromise on the safety and happiness of our children."

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White House officials seriously considered suspending habeas corpus rights for undocumented immigrants in the early months of Donald Trump's second presidency, The New York Times reported on Monday.

White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller was one of the loudest voices calling for the extreme step as part of an effort to ramp up deportations, the report said.

But Will Scharf, a conservative lawyer who serves as White House staff secretary, wrote a secret memo to chief of staff Susie Wiles warning that suspending habeas would be unwise and could backfire, the Times said.

After the president seemed to back off that idea, the administration reportedly began weighing another radical measure, invoking the Insurrection Act.

Scharf interjected with another confidential memo, saying the step would almost certainly be challenged in the courts, "potentially obviating any advantage to be gained in terms of the flexibility that it would provide to the president," per the Times.

But some still seemed set on the idea. During a meeting with Wiles and other key White House officials following the killing of Alex Pretti, Vice President JD Vance reportedly argued for its invocation to quell the unrest in Minnesota and send a message to those opposing the operations of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Others, though, including Scharf, raised concerns and that meeting eventually ended without a decision, per the Times.

The article is drawn from reporting Times journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan did for their forthcoming book, "Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump."

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President Donald Trump spent his 80th birthday watching Ultimate Fighting Championship battlers knock the crap out of each other for his amusement, the latest display of how he has spent his second term pursuing his own interests and self-aggrandizement.

A survey released Monday by Navigator Research, a Democratic-aligned nonprofit, found that Trump's authoritarian aesthetics were more than a sideshow and were meaningfully weighing down his already-low popularity levels. They contribute to the public's belief that Trump is focused on almost anything other than the economic concerns they think should be front and center.

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White House officials are worried that New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan have obtained tapes of meetings held in the Situation Room, Axios reported on Sunday, even though independent recording devices are not allowed in the secure facility.

The two journalists have been working on a new book about Donald Trump's presidency which is set to be published next week. Haberman and Swan have already released articles drawn from their reporting for the book, which include verbatim quotes from Situation Room meetings about the Iran war and the handling of the Epstein files fallout.

"We're afraid some of our most sensitive conversations were being recorded," an unnamed Trump administration source told Axios. "And we have no idea which ones."

Trump is allegedly furious about the reporting published so far, Axios said.

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Barron Trump took time out from his studies and fledgling energy drink business to attend the blood-soaked UFC fight card at the White House on Sunday, which also happened to be his father Donald Trump's 80th birthday.

The president’s youngest son was photographed in his rare public appearance alongside the president, his mother, first lady Melania Trump, and other members of the Trump family as they watched the controversial spectacle which is part of America's 250th birthday celebrations.

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Israel’s defense minister said Monday that Israel won't withdraw from land seized in Lebanon, potentially challenging an interim deal that Iran and the United States reached hours earlier that includes opening the Strait of Hormuz and further extending a shaky ceasefire.

Details of the deal were not immediately released and Iran signaled implementation would not start until the signing, which key mediator Pakistan said would take place Friday in Switzerland.

But the memorandum of understanding over the war already faced hurdles.

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For the second year in a row, President Donald Trump commemorated his birthday with a bizarre spectacle in Washington, D.C.

After an inclement weather delay, Trump’s UFC extravaganza kicked off Sunday evening with a bout between two featherweight fighters who made their entrances from the White House.

The opening underscored the strangeness of the gathering, which marked the rare use of the White House for a professional sports competition and for a function hosted by a private company. Trump has faced criticism for promoting such events at the White House and for backing an exhibition that’s expected to benefit numerous commercial interests, including the UFC and Paramount.

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