Jeffrey Donaldson is convicted as Congress passes a housing bill

A British court found former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson guilty of all 18 charges, including one count of rape, involving two victims who were children at the time. In a related trial of the facts, the jury found that his wife Eleanor had aided and abetted five offences. The verdicts closed a trial that had opened in late May.

The United States Senate voted 85 to 5 to pass the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, aimed at housing costs. The House then passed the same measure and sent it to president Donald Trump for his signature. The bill had cleared the House in an earlier form in May and now had both chambers.

A Belgian judge issued a European arrest warrant for Greek lawmaker and former European commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos over alleged payments linked to the Qatargate inquiry, and authorities asked that his immunity be lifted. A South Korean court sentenced former justice minister Park Sung-jae to 25 years for involvement in Yoon Suk Yeol's martial law. A Spanish court sentenced former transport minister Jose Luis Abalos to 24 years, adviser Koldo Garcia to 19, and businessman Victor de Aldama to four and a half years in a mask-contract bribery case.

In Montreal a police officer, a civilian, and the suspect were killed in a shooting, two other people were wounded, and the attacker had posted a manifesto described as incel ideology. Three people were killed and 20 injured, one critically, in a shooting at a secondary school in Tacloban, and two student suspects were arrested. Nepal arrested former finance minister Bishnu Prasad Paudel on money-laundering charges.

Japan's Supreme Court upheld an order to dissolve the Unification Church. Yabloko deputy leader Maxim Kruglov was convicted and faces seven years over anti-war social-media remarks about the Russian army. A South Korean court ordered the arrest of Shincheonji leader Lee Man-hee over alleged coercion of followers into the People Power Party.

Florida governor Ron DeSantis confirmed that the Alligator Alcatraz detention center in Ochopee will close, a year after it opened. Abdikerm Abdelahi Eidleh, a suspect in the Feeding Our Future fraud case, was arrested in Mogadishu after the FBI said he fled in 2022. Turkish police seized more than 10,000 historical artifacts in an Istanbul raid and arrested two people.