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A French government minister says that train services will gradually resume and roads will reopen after the disposal operation of an unexploded World War II bomb caused transportation chaos in Paris.

Crypto Summit: Trump hosts digital currency leaders at White House – as it happened  Reuters

Keir Starmer welcomes EU moves to boost defence spending  BBC.com EU leaders agree on defence surge, support Zelenskiy after US aid freeze  Reuters Europe scrambles to rearm as Trump threatens security guarantees and Russian threat looms. Here’s what to know  CNN EU summit

Crypto industry to emerge from ‘exile’ at White House summit  The Washington Post

Inside the Explosive Meeting Where Trump Officials Clashed With Elon Musk  The New York Times

Under Trump’s new order, the U.S. government will retain the estimated 200,000 bitcoin it’s already seized in criminal and civil proceedings, according to Trump’s “crypto czar” David Sacks.

WATCH LIVE: Trump delivers White House digital asset summit remarks as cryptocurrencies struggle  PBS NewsHour

Officials from USAID say the the Trump administration’s cuts to the U.S. humanitarian agency have frozen hundreds of millions of dollars in contractual payments to aid groups.

A war monitor says that clashes between Syrian security forces and gunmen loyal to former President Bashar Assad in the country’s coastal region have left more than 70 people dead and the area outside government control.

Trump threatens to impose ‘large scale’ sanctions on Russia until a peace agreement with Ukraine is reached  NBC News