UNITED STATES: A proposed legal settlement with the US government could require the Keystone Pipeline system’s operator to pay a $26.9 million (£20.1m) civil penalty over a major oil spill in Kansas in December 2022 and spend about $40m (£29.9m) more to prevent future accidents.

The agreement would resolve allegations by the US Environmental Protection Agency and Kansas that South Bow, based in Canada, violated federal and state clean water laws.

A rupture in the pipeline dumped nearly 13,000 barrels of heavy crude oil into a creek in Washington County.

CHINA: Typhoon Bavi has weakened to a tropical storm, hours after making landfall in the eastern province of Zhejiang, but it continued bringing strong winds and heavy rain to parts of the country.

In Zhejiang province, more than 2.2 million people were evacuated, according to state media. The city of Shanghai, in Zhejiang, evacuated over 290,000 people, while Fujian province evacuated more than 180,000.

AUSTRALIA: Hollywood actor Sam Neill, who starred in Jurassic Park and numerous other hit films, died today in Sydney aged 78, according to a post on his social media page.

No cause of death was given. Though the New Zealander had disclosed in 2023 that he had angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma his death was “sudden and unexpected,” the statement said, and he “remained cancer-free” when he died.

YEMEN: Saudi air strikes hit the international airport in the capital Sanaa today, the Iranian-allied Houthi authorities said.

Houthi official Brigadier General Yahya Saree warned that “this aggression will not go unanswered or unpunished.”