1. Pakistan will raise defence spending by a steep 20%, but will slash overall federal expenditure for fiscal 2025-26 by a hefty 7% to 17.57 trillion rupees ($62 billion).

2. South Korea is close to signing a deal worth around $6 billion to supply 180 K2 tanks for Poland.

3. Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg was deported from Israel, the day after the Israeli navy prevented her and a group of fellow pro-Palestinian activists from sailing to Gaza.

4. Russia launched one of its largest air strikes on Kyiv in over three years of war and struck a maternity ward in the southern city of Odesa.

5. OpenAI plans to add Alphabet's Google cloud service to meet its growing needs for computing capacity.