“Viktor Orbán has ruled out discussing the EU’s proposed oil embargo of Russia at next week’s summit of leaders, in a fresh blow to the union’s efforts to win backing for its landmark sanctions package,” the Financial Times reports.

” A senior member of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard was killed outside his home in Tehran on Sunday by unidentified gunmen on a motorbike,” the Los Angeles Times reports.

“Although the Guard gave only scant detail about the attack that occurred in broad daylight in the heart of Iran’s capital, the group blamed the killing on ‘global arrogance,’ typically code for the United States and Israel.”

“That accusation, as well as the style of the brazen killing, raised the possibility of a link with other motorbike slayings previously attributed to Israel in Iran, such as those targeting the country’s nuclear scientists. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.”

“President Biden said he would maintain longstanding U.S. policy toward Taiwan, a day after triggering global confusion when he said the U.S. would respond militarily to any effort by China to take the island by force,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

Said Biden: “My policy has not changed at all.”

The New York Times notes this is the third time Biden has suggested that the U.S. would defend Taiwan if China attacked — and in each instance, his remarks prompted a staff scramble to clean it up.