1. South Koreans turned out in record numbers for early voting. About 8.7 million people, or 19.6% of total eligible voters, had voted as of 6 p.m. (0900 GMT), the highest turnout for the equivalent period in a presidential poll and compared with 17.6% in the 2022 vote.

2. A US trade court blocked most of Trump's tariffs in a sweeping ruling that found the president overstepped his authority by imposing across-the-board duties on imports from US trading partners.

3. US curbs chip design software, chemicals, other shipments to China.

4. US will impose visa bans on foreign nationals it deems to be censoring Americans, targeting officials regulating US tech companies.

5. NATO will ask Germany to provide seven more brigades, or some 40,000 troops, for the alliance's defense.

6. China’s DeepSeek released an update to its R1 reasoning model, stepping up competition with US rivals such as OpenAI.