Khuram Butt and Rachid Redouane were named late on Monday by British police as two of the three London attackers. Butt was already known to security services and had appeared on a local documentary titled The Jihadis Next Door. As British police seek to arrest any and all who may have been connected to the attack, the United Kingdom remains braced for a hotly-contested election in just two days.

The White House has announced that it would not seek to block ex-FBI Director Jame’s Comey’s testimony. Comey is expected to deliver an explosive interview with the Senate’s intelligence committee, with most US news outlets planning live broadcasts. However, you can almost definitely expect most answers to begin and end with “that’s classified”.

Monday’s hostage drama in Melbourne has been claimed by Islamic State, announcing the perpetrator as one of their “soldiers”. Australian authorities confirmed that they were treating the hostage incident – where a woman was taken captive – as a terrorist situation. Australian police were able to kill the hostage-taker and free the victim.

Sudan has offered to hold reconciliatory talks with Gulf states who had isolated Qatar and severed all relations. Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Yemen had all announced their cutting off of ties with Qatar on the grounds that the nation was destabilising the region. But when a disaster like Sudan needs to step in and tell you to calm down, you know you’re probably getting a little drastic.

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