Here’s a rundown of all the news you need to start your Tuesday, including US President Donald Trump saying further military action against Iran “doesn’t seem to be a very necessary thing,” COP31 entering 2nd day with focus on energy, transport, and a new round of US-brokered Russia-Ukraine trilateral peace beginning Tuesday.
US President Donald Trump said further military action against Iran did not appear necessary at this stage, while warning that Washington remained prepared to act if the situation changed.
"At this point, taking the military action doesn't seem to be a very necessary thing — but we're locked and loaded, ready to go for any reason," he told reporters at the White House.
Trump added that Israel and the wider Middle East were protected from the Iranian "danger and threat."
"We're seeing momentum toward the end of this conflict. I think it's going to be ending fairly soon," he said.
The UN Climate Change Conference (COP31) entered its second day in Türkiye on Tuesday, with discussions focusing on energy security, electrification, grid infrastructure and sustainable transport.
According to the conference program, around 370 sessions are scheduled throughout the day, including 140 under the energy and transport theme.
In the Blue Zone, which hosts official negotiations and high-level meetings, key events include a ministerial meeting on the Azerbaijan–Kazakhstan–Uzbekistan green energy partnership, as well as panel discussion on green energy security and Ukraine's energy transition.
Other Blue Zone sessions will address energy security amid geopolitical risks, financing the energy transition and expanding renewable energy infrastructure. Meanwhile, the Green Zone, which opened to visitors Monday, will host discussions on sustainable mobility, clean energy investment and industrial decarbonization.
A new round of US-brokered Russia-Ukraine trilateral peace talks in Abu Dhabi to begin Tuesday. Russia and Ukraine last held US-mediated peace talks earlier this year, with three rounds taking place on Jan. 23-24, Feb. 4-5 and Feb. 17-18. The first two were held in Abu Dhabi, while the third took place in Geneva.
A Russian delegation arrived in the Emirati capital Abu Dhabi on Monday to participate in trilateral talks involving Russia, Ukraine and the United States, the state-run Tass news agency reported.
The delegation is led by presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, while Ukraine's delegation will be led by Rustem Umerov, the head of the country's Foreign Intelligence Service.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said the talks would focus on security guarantees, adding that European representatives would not participate because the negotiations were initially agreed upon as a trilateral format.
American golfer Blades Brown, 19, became the youngest PGA Tour winner in 95 years after claiming his first title at the World Wide Technology Championship in Mexico.
Brown shot a final-round 9-under-par 63 at El Cardonal in Los Cabos, overcoming a seven-stroke deficit before defeating fellow American Ben James on the second playoff hole.
Both players finished the four-round tournament at 23-under 265, according to the PGA Tour’s official results.
British-Somali boxer Ramla Ali became a world champion for the first time, defeating previously unbeaten American Mikiah Kreps by split decision in Arlington, Texas.
Ali, 37, captured the vacant IBF and WBO women's super-bantamweight titles after a 10-round contest at College Park Center.
Two judges scored the fight 97-92 and 96-93 in Ali's favor, while the third awarded Kreps a 98-91 victory.
British actor and comedian Russell Brand was sentenced on Monday to 10 1/2 years in prison for rape and three counts of sexual assault, local media reported.
Under sentencing guidelines, however, reports suggested that he is likely to serve only two-thirds of his sentence in custody.
During a hearing in London, the judge called Brand a “sexual predator” who told a “series of lies” and displayed “staggering arrogance,” the BBC reported.
He will serve nine years in prison for one count of rape, in addition to a range of sentence for three instances of sexual assault, one at a bar in 2004, and two at locations associated with Brand’s radio appearances of television projects. Last week, Brand, 51, was found guilty of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault.
British author M. John Harrison won the 2026 Booker Prize on Monday for his dystopian novel "The End of Everything," becoming the oldest winner in the prestigious literary award's history at age 81.
Harrison received the £50,000 ($67,232) prize at a ceremony at Old Billingsgate in London, where last year's winner, David Szalay, presented him with the award.
The winning novel, Harrison's 13th, follows a beachcomber and his elderly aunt struggling to survive on England's Kent coast after a mysterious catastrophe and the arrival of shape-shifting entities known as the iGhetti.
The book, 198 pages long, was the shortest of the six shortlisted novels. Historian and broadcaster Mary Beard chaired the judging panel, which unanimously selected Harrison's novel after considering 163 submissions.
Apple announced a multiyear investment in Türkiye to establish five developer academies, a developer center and a manufacturing academy supporting developers, entrepreneurs and businesses.
The five Apple Developer Academies will open over the next three years, starting in the country’s commercial capital Istanbul in 2027, the company said.
They will offer free, nine-month programs covering coding, design, marketing, project management and artificial intelligence, preparing participants for careers in the app economy.
Google introduced two new configurations of its in-house artificial intelligence processors, expanding its challenge to Nvidia’s dominance of the AI chip market, Bloomberg reported.
The systems, named TPU 8tx and TPU 8i Max, are specialized versions of Google’s existing eighth-generation tensor processing units rather than entirely new chips.
Bloomberg first reported the rollout before Google published details of the systems in an official announcement.
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