South Korea shortens war games with US, citing Washington request

Tonight: the President delays new tariffs on Canada as both sides claim progress on a trade framework. The World Desk has that developing story.

Five Australian rules football players have been suspended after police opened an investigation into an alleged assault. Criminal Intent covers the suspensions and what investigators won't say yet.

ABC and Disney are suing the Federal Communications Commission, claiming the administration violated the network's First Amendment rights. Happy Animals examines the allegations and the government's response.

It's about the media. And in Sports, the family of former heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko speaks out after the sudden death of actress Hayden Panettiere, with whom he shares a daughter.

South Korea has shortened its annual military exercises with the United States, following what officials in Seoul are calling a request from Washington.

The President announced plans to curtail joint exercises earlier this week, citing what he described as a very good relationship with North Korea's Kim Jong Un.

These exercises take place along the demilitarized zone, which runs through Seoul, the capital, dividing the North from the industrial South.

The demilitarized zone is thirty miles north of Seoul. Seoul is south of the zone.

No timeline has been given for resuming full-scale exercises.

In China, the world's largest manufacturer of humanoid robots began trading on the Shanghai exchange this morning, and shares immediately doubled.

Unitree, based in Hangzhou, opened at nearly twice its initial offering price on the Star market. The company produces industrial and consumer robotics for export to more than forty countries.

Hangzhou is in the Yangtze manufacturing belt, north of the industrial ports.

Hangzhou is south of Shanghai. It is a port city.

The company says it expects to produce more than one hundred thousand units in the next fiscal year.

In the United Kingdom, a suspended member of the Reform UK party says he will appeal his suspension and has called it a test of whether the party can tolerate free speech.

Tim Montgomerie, a political commentator and former advisor to Conservative leadership, was suspended last week. The party has not disclosed the reason for the suspension.

Reform UK is based in Westminster, which is London's political quarter, adjacent to the financial district.

The financial district is called the City. It is one mile east of Westminster.

Montgomerie says he will fight to remain in the party.

An Iranian academic has written publicly about what she describes as detention hell after her immigration status was revoked at a United States port of entry.

Maryam Tahmasebi says she was detained for more than twelve hours and questioned about her husband, whose father was a prominent figure in Iran during the nineteen seventy-nine hostage crisis.

Immigration officials have not commented on the case.

Tahmasebi is a scholar of Middle Eastern history and has lectured at universities in both countries.

We begin in Australia tonight, where five professional footballers are suspended following a police investigation. The athletes, whose names have not been released, allegedly invited women to a hotel room after drinking.

Police are investigating an alleged sexual assault. No charges have been filed.

The league suspended all five pending the outcome of the investigation, which is standard protocol in cases involving persons of interest under active criminal review.

Alleged persons of interest.

In India, a husband and his mother-in-law have been charged in the death of a twenty-six-year-old bride. Twisha Sharma, a model and actor, was found dead in May after just five months of marriage.

Prosecutors have not released details of the charges. Both are in custody.

And in trade news tonight, President Trump announced a last-minute deal with Canada, pausing fifty-percent tariffs after what both sides called intense negotiations that went down to the wire.

The pause lasts three days while both countries work on a broader trade agreement. The tariffs would have taken effect at midnight.

Negotiators on both sides of the border working through the night to reach an agreement that avoids what economists were calling a potential trade catastrophe.

An endangered Kemp's ridley sea turtle has completed a five-thousand-mile journey from Wales back to Texas.

The turtle was tracked by satellite tag over eighteen months across the Atlantic and through the Gulf Stream, and is now nesting on Padre Island.

A Scottish wildcat was filmed swimming across open water near the Cairngorms in what biologists say is the first recorded sighting of the behavior.

Biologists say the swimming suggests territorial expansion into new habitat areas, which means the population may be recovering.

Scottish wildcats are critically endangered. Fewer than three hundred remain in the wild.

Steve Irwin once said the only animal that truly terrified him was the cassowary, a flightless bird native to Australia and New Guinea that can grow to six feet tall and has claws like knives.

Irwin called it the most dangerous bird in the world. Cassowaries are responsible for multiple human deaths in recorded history.

College football returns to the Midwest this Saturday as Ohio State opens its season against Akron at Ohio Stadium. The Buckeyes are favored by thirty-eight points.

Moving to professional baseball, the Chicago Cubs completed a comeback win over the crosstown White Sox on Sunday with Pete Crow-Armstrong hitting a walk-off single in the bottom of the ninth.

In Formula One, Honda has acknowledged it only realized the full scale of its performance deficit in January, three months after committing to rejoin the sport as a power unit supplier beginning in twenty twenty-six.

And in what may be the most dominant performance in competitive chess this year, Magnus Carlsen successfully defended his title at the twenty twenty-six Esports World Cup in Riyadh, defeating challenger Hikaru Nakamura in four consecutive games.

In Spanish football, Barcelona has completed the signing of Manchester City midfielder Rodri for sixty-five million pounds, the club confirmed this morning.