1. President Joe Biden’s son Hunter will ask a US judge to dismiss the criminal case accusing him of evading $1.4 million in taxes.

2. Russian state investigators said they would study a request from parliamentarians to investigate what they called the "organization, financing, and conduct of terrorist acts" against Russia by the US and other Western countries.

3. Thousands of people protested in Budapest near parliament demanding the chief prosecutor and Prime Minister Viktor Orban resign.

4. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said it was a moral and strategic imperative to protect Palestinian civilians in the war between Israel and Hamas.

5. Russian oil firms face delays of up to several months to be paid for crude and fuel as banks in China, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates become more wary of U.S. secondary sanctions.