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France faces a day of strikes on Tuesday as unions call on civil servants to put pressure on the government before it presents its 2027 budget bill later this week.

The European Union is poised to remove Vietnam and Panama from its list of tax havens when EU finance ministers meet in Luxembourg next month.

The UK was closely monitoring increased threats to a British airbase used in US strikes against Iran before an attempted attack was foiled on Sunday, people familiar with the matter said, adding that authorities had tightened security at the site.

The political battle for the Senate is spreading to states many analysts doubted would have a central role in the November midterms, prompting both parties to bolster spending in an election that is on track to be the most expensive in American history.

Municipal elections on Nov. 4 will put local policing and basic services squarely back into the political conversation.

President Donald Trump says the suspects were “looking to do big damage” to the facility. (Source: Bloomberg)

Defence Secretary Wes Streeting declines to link the arrests of five people near RAF Fairford, an air base that is a key launching point for US strikes against Iran, with the ongoing conflict in Iran. “I don’t want to draw a link between what’s happening in Iran and this incident at this stage,” he says. Speaking on Bloomberg Television, he adds that the Iranian regime poses a threat to the United Kingdom, its interests and allies. He speaks with Bloomberg's Caroline Hepker on the sidelines of the Labour Party's annual conference. (Source: Bloomberg)

Britain’s defense secretary declined to connect the arrests of five men near a Royal Air Force base with the US-Iran war, saying that an investigation into the incident was ongoing.

UK Defence Secretary Wes Streeting says there is "no doubt that the Iranian regime poses a threat" to the UK, the nation's interest and its allies. Speaking with Bloomberg's Caroline Hepker on the sidelines of the annual Labour Party conference in Liverpool, he adds that "there is more in the budget to come on defense." (Source: Bloomberg)

Japan held its first meeting of an expert panel tasked with helping develop national intelligence gathering capabilities and anti-espionage measures, moves that Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said were vital to guard against foreign threats.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he will meet senior economic officials and the heads of relevant institutions on Tuesday as the government prepares further steps in response to the turmoil in the country’s fund market.

The son of a night watchman and a stay-at-home mother, Douglas Oliveira was 16 and living in a modest house in Brazil’s northeast when he cast his first ballot, helping Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva win a second presidential term.

Two countries signaled interest in sending ships to counter Houthi strikes in the Red Sea, top European Union diplomat Kaja Kallas said.

Thailand and its prime minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, avoided renewed political upheaval after a ruling by one of the country’s top courts removed the threat that the recent election would need to be rerun.

Further European Union emergency support for the bloc’s agriculture sector depends on how market conditions develop, after extreme heat over the summer, according to the Ireland’s Agriculture Minister Martin Heydon. “It does depend on a number of factors,” Heydon said in an interview with Bloomberg Television, when asked whether the EU would need to go further than measures already announced. “Europe I think stands ready to support our agriculture sector” He added. (Source: Bloomberg)

Imran Khan’s son says he’s losing hope of ever seeing his father again, more than three years after the former Pakistani prime minister was put behind bars, according to an interview with CBC News.

Sweden’s election winner Magdalena Andersson said she isn’t currently able to form a government, underscoring the difficulty of building a coalition in the fragmented parliament after the vote earlier this month.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi took to social media over the weekend touting efforts to revise the country’s rules related to foreign nationals, days before some of those rules come into effect.

Bloomberg Daybreak Europe is your essential morning viewing to stay ahead. Live from Brussels, we set the agenda for your day, catching you up with overnight markets news from the US and Asia. And we'll tell you what matters for investors in Europe, giving you insight before trading begins. Bonds and stocks dropped after President Donald Trump rejected Iran’s latest proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, denting some of the optimism that lifted markets late last week. Oil rose and precious metals sold off. The US and China detailed a plan to cut tariffs on about $30 billion of imports from each country, as the superpower rivals take steps to steady ties following a summit between leaders Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. And Britain’s governing Labour Party gathers in Liverpool for its annual conference ahead of the budget next month. Today's guests: Martin Heydon, Irish, Agriculture Minister; Rain Newton-Smith, CBI, CEO. (Source: Bloomberg)

The European Union has dived into the growing debate over data centers with a new sustainability label that will show, among over things, how much power and water a plant is using. Caitilin McManus, a data center analyst at BloombergNEF, joins Daybreak Europe to discuss the move and what it means for hyperscalers and others looking to expand in Europe. (Source: Bloomberg)