Costa Rica elected Laura Fernández as president in a notable shift for the Central American nation (BBC). The UK Parliament voted to decriminalize abortion in England and Wales, a landmark change to reproductive rights law (BBC). In Nigeria, 80 kidnapped individuals escaped their captors in a rare self-liberation (BBC).

Google acquired data center developer Intersect for $4.75 billion to expand AI infrastructure capacity (multiple sources). The Trump administration barred five European tech regulators from entering the United States, escalating transatlantic tensions over digital policy (multiple sources).