POLAND: Prime Minister Donald Tusk says the 2025 state budget will include record-high spending on defence.

Mr Tusk today presented the main points of next year’s budget, which he described as “generous” and supporting further economic growth.

He said some 186 billion zlotys (£37 billion) will be spent next year on increasing military spending.

BANGLADESH: Dhaka’s interim government led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus today lifted a ban on the Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami party that was imposed by the former prime minister who was ousted this month in nationwide protests.

Sheikh Hasina, who fled to India on August 5, had banned the party as a “militant and terrorist” organisation.

NETHERLANDS: Flights were grounded, civil servants were locked out of their computers and police officers resorted to texting one another in the Netherlands today as a network outage at the Ministry of Defence caused major IT failures across the country.

The extent and the cause of the problems are not yet known, but a spokesperson for the Dutch defence ministry confirmed the issue can be traced back to one of their systems.

UNITED STATES: Prosecutors in the United States have issued revised charges against former president Donald Trump over allegations that he attempted to press officials to reverse the outcome after he lost the 2020 election.

The revised wording attempts to deal with a Supreme Court ruling that presidents have broad immunity for criminal prosecution for official acts.

Mr Trump denies the allegations, which are unlikely to reach prosecution before the November 5 presidential election.