Overview
- State media released footage showing three sons of the late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei performing funeral prayers in Tehran while Mojtaba Khamenei, the reported successor, has not appeared publicly since being wounded in the February strikes.
- Morocco’s Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation said it arrested 10 suspects in coordinated raids across several cities and seized modified vehicles, explosive components and extremist materials tied to an ISIS Sahel cell that reportedly received outside operational guidance.
- The United Nations opened its first global dialogue on AI governance in Geneva where Secretary‑General António Guterres urged a ban on lethal autonomous weapon systems and called for human control over decisions to use lethal force.
- The United Arab Emirates used UN counterterrorism events and separate forums in Dubai and Geneva to promote responsible AI, host a major gaming industry retreat and formally join the Locarno industrial‑design classification to boost its tech and IP strategy.
- A U.S. diplomatic push on Libya was publicly rejected by Misrata’s military council, highlighting a wider contest over which actors — Libyan institutions, the UN or outside powers — define the rules for political transition and guarantee implementation.