Sri Lanka is facing a delicate diplomatic crisis after a US submarine torpedoed the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena near the southern port city of Galle. The attack occurred within Sri Lanka’s Exclusive Economic Zone and killed at least 87 Iranian sailors, leaving survivors and bodies to be handled by the island nation. Reports say the United States has urged Sri Lanka not to repatriate survivors from the sunken warship and also asked Colombo not to send back the crew of another Iranian naval vessel, IRIS Booshehr, which is currently in Sri Lankan custody.

The US Justice Department has released additional FBI documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, revealing details from interviews conducted in 2019 with a woman who made allegations involving President Donald Trump abusing her while she was a minor. According to the documents, the woman told investigators that Epstein introduced her to Trump when she was a teenager. The DOJ says that the files were not included in earlier releases because they were mistakenly labeled as duplicate documents.