Iran has called on foreign ambassadors based in Tehran to warn of the country’s moral duty to punish Israel for what it sees as its “adventurism” and law-breaking in assassinating Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas leader, a week ago in the Iranian capital.

Iran has also secured an emergency meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Wednesday where it will try to press Arab states to back its right to take reprisal actions against Israel.

Many leaders in the Gulf are willing to condemn Israel’s actions but have also been calling for Iran to show restraint. The meeting will be held at the OIC headquarters in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Previous efforts by the deceased Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi to win the support of Gulf states for military action or direct economic sanction failed.

It is possible that Iran will wait for the outcome of the OIC meeting to launch its planned reprisals, but the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has indicated he is expecting Iran to launch a series of coordinated strikes from Monday. President Joe Biden is due to meet his national security team in Washington at 2.15 pm local time, approximately 10pm in Tehran, by which time it is likely to be clear if Iran is planning to launch an attack overnight.

Tehran airport cancelled a number of incoming and outgoing flights on Sunday evening, suggesting it was fearful that civil aircraft may be caught up in military activity. In a previous military exchange in January 2020 between the US and Iran, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian civil flight from Tehran to Kyiv, killing all 176 occupants on board.

Russia’s security council secretary, Sergei Shoigu, arrived in Tehran on Monday for talks with the Iranian leadership, including the president, Masoud Pezeshkian. Shoigu, previously Russia’s defence minister, was removed from that post by Vladimir Putin but remains central to Russia’s defence co-operation with Iran. There is no sign that Russia is urging restraint.

Iran is trying to portray its planned missile strikes as necessary to try to re-establish regional deterrence after the US’s failure to control its ally Israel. In a meeting with foreign diplomats, the acting foreign minister, Ali Bagheri, said: “We all have a moral duty and responsibility not to remain silent in the face of the occupation, displacement and genocide of the Palestinian nation.” He added: “Indifference and appeasement in the face of evil and injustice is a kind of moral negligence and causes the spread of evil.”

Speaking at his weekly briefing, the Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson, Nasser Kanaani, said action from Tehran was inevitable. “Iran seeks to establish stability in the region, but this will only come with punishing the aggressor and creating deterrence against the adventurism of the Zionist regime [Israel],” said Kanaani, as he called on the US to stop supporting Israel and added that the international community had failed in its duty to safeguard stability in the region and should support the “punishment of the aggressor”.

He added: “Terror is in the essence of the Zionist regime, and its survival depends on the continuation of the approach of state terrorism. The world should strongly condemn this crime, secondly, it should support the punishment of the aggressor and avoid any approach that means supporting the aggressor.”

His remarks were directed at the Gulf states, including Jordan, that cooperated with western powers on 13 April of this year to reduce the impact of the Iranian attack on Israel in April following the assassination of IRGC commanders in an Iranian consulate in Damascus on 1 April.

Inside Iran, those who have counselled caution, or even suggested that the country could diplomatically exploit Israel’s overreach, seem to have lost out to those who have argued that there should be a coordinated attack on Israel mounted by Hezbollah, Hamas, Iraqi militant groups, the Houthis in Yemen and Iran itself. In the April episode, it took Iran 12 days to decide and launch its response. It used that time not only to calibrate its response, but also send out messages it was not seeking a regional war, messages that in turn led the US to restrain Israel in its own response.

Some of this messaging about the scale of both side’s reaction is absent, but the longer the pause between the assassination of Hamiyeh and Iran’s response, the more time exists for diplomacy to reduce the scope for misunderstandings.

On Monday, the top IRGC commander, Hossein Salami, repeated the group’s threat that Israel “will receive punishment in due time”, adding that Israel was digging its own grave.

Donald Trump, now facing a tougher challenge in the US election after Joe Biden stepped down in favor of Kamala Harris, is increasingly leaning into religious extremism aimed at energizing a key section of his support base: socially conservative Christians.

Fears that Trump would be an authoritarian leader if elected seemed to be realized last week, when he told a group of Christian supporters they “would not have to vote” in four years if he becomes president.

“My theory would be that since Harris has entered the race, Trump has recognized that he’s on shakier ground,” said Matthew D Taylor, author of The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy.

“If you watched the RNC and saw the discourse there, [Republicans] really were quite confident that they were going to kind of have a cakewalk to victory in November.

“I think there’s, there’s more anxiety there now. I think Trump is dialing up religious dog whistles, and sometimes just straight up whistles to really galvanize and submit that religion’s religious support.”

Since 2016, Trump has become an unlikely hero for Christian nationalists – a loose grouping of evangelical Christians who believe the US was founded as a Christian nation, and want to see Christianity feature prominently in American life and politics.

After a stumbling start – during his first run for president the thrice-married Trump struggled to name a single Bible verse, referred to the Eucharist as a “little cracker”, and put money in the communion plate during a church visit – the relationship was cemented when Trump-installed supreme court justices overturned Roe v Wade.

The bond between Trump and Christian nationalists has now deepened to the extent that Trump is comfortable with comparing himself with their messiah, while some on the religious right have come to believe that the one-term president has been chosen, or anointed, by God himself, especially after a recent failed assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania.

Over the past couple of weeks, as Harris has posed a threat that Republicans apparently didn’t see coming, and Trump has been questioned over appointing JD Vance as his running mate, he has looked for the support of these religious groups.

The speech at Turning Point’s Believers’ Summit, a gathering of Christians and Republicans that had the stated aim of “ultimately turning our nation towards the Lord”, was the furthest Trump has gone yet in appealing to this Christian base.

“Christians, get out and vote, just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what, it will be fixed, it will be fine, you won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians,” Trump said in his speech, where he also repeated a promise to form “a new federal task force on fighting anti-Christian bias”, which would investigate “harassment and persecution against Christians in America”.

The crowd at the Believers’ Summit was a gathering of the more extreme type of American Christian, and came days after the Trump campaign launched a “Believers for Trump” coalition, backed by controversial religious figures who reinforced the sense that the base was being pandered to.

Those backers included Eric Metaxas, an anti-vaxxer and conservative radio host, who in the press release accompanying the event claimed that “American Christians are falling for the same religious lies” that German christians succumbed to as the Nazi party ascended in the 1930s”, and who recently retweeted a post on X which discussed “the way to wipe that smug, bitchy smirk off Kamala’s face”.

Taylor said there is a distinction between Christians who merely support Trump and those – like the people at the Believers’ Summit – who have a “religious attachment” to the former president. Those people, who include an array of religious leaders, see Trump in religious terms and have attached “spiritual narratives” to him: one example being the comparison of Trump to King Cyrus, who, according to the Bible, liberated the Jews from Babylonian captivity, despite himself being a Persian ruler.

The real goal with Trump’s appeal to this crowd is about more than just winning individual votes, Taylor said.

“I think the more overt Christian appeals are maybe a little bit of desperation, but also it’s a tried and true method for them, of drumming up more and more support and the truth is the religious voters who have a religious attachment to Trump are not just voters – they’re force multipliers,” Taylor said.

“If somebody believes that it is God’s will for Donald Trump to be elected, and they believe that there are demonic and satanic forces pushing back against God’s will, and that they need to be active and pushing against [those things] to see Trump elected. That is a level of political fervor and ardency that is very, very valuable to a candidate, because those are people who are then talking to their friends, who are then mobilizing some of these groups.”

The assassination attempt, Taylor said, “added even more certainty for these folks that God wants Trump to be elected”.

At the Republican national convention, held days after the shooting, speaker after speaker leaned into this idea that God had been at work.

Tim Scott, the South Carolina senator, suggested that it was “the devil”; Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the Arkansas governor, said “God almighty” had saved Trump; and Ben Carson claimed that God had “lowered a shield of protection over Donald Trump”. Corey Comperatore, the former fire chief who was killed in the shooting, was rarely mentioned.

Trump is appealing to a specific type of Christian, Rev Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, president and CEO of Interfaith Alliance, said in a statement. Raushenbush said Trump is trying to reinforce his popularity with the religious right, who do not represent every person of faith.

“The majority of religious people in this country are alarmed and threatened by Trump’s promise to hand Christian nationalists the keys to power. Their agenda hopes to repress diversity and difference and impose one extreme religious worldview on all of us,” he said.

“Trump’s shameless appeals to ‘my beautiful Christians’ are unsettling and infuriating to the many millions of American Christians who proudly believe in pluralistic democracy and healthy boundaries between religion and government.”

The leaning in has continued since Trump made his incendiary speech at the Believers’ Summit. Jake Schneider, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee, sent an email out on Tuesday which falsely accused Harris of supporting “taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand without limits until birth”, which was designed to appeal to the Christian base.

On Truth Social, meanwhile, Trump has accused Harris of being “anti-Catholic” and made a direct appeal to Catholics as he tries to expand his religious support.

“I think he’s really trying to win votes and shore up his quote unquote religious base,” said Kristin Du Mez, a professor of history and gender studies at Calvin University whose research focuses on the intersection of gender, religion and politics.

Du Mez said Trump “has been unsettled by what’s transpired in the last couple of weeks, that’s been very clear”. But she said it was impossible to say whether Trump had recalibrated his speech in response to Harris replacing Biden on the Democratic ticket.

“There’s no way that isn’t a part of this context. And yet, I don’t really envision that his speech to that particular crowd would have been that different, even if he was still kind of on top of the world as he was a couple of weeks ago,” she said.

The main takeaway from the speech, Du Mez said, was the lingering fear over what Trump has planned if he wins a second term.

“Those of us who study authoritarian movements saw huge red flags right there. That language is unprecedented for a US presidential candidate, and I think it’s important to say that, because Trump is always saying weird things, and it’s important to just put down that marker,” she said.

“This is not normal for a presidential candidate in this country to say anything remotely like that.”

The independent US presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr called Donald Trump “a terrible human being”, the “worse [sic] president ever” and “barely human”.

“He is probably a sociopath,” Kennedy said in texts to an unnamed person, the New Yorker reported on Monday.

Kennedy has been linked to a job in a second Trump administration, not least after Kennedy’s son posted footage of such a move appearing to be discussed. Kennedy attended the Republican convention in Milwaukee in July.

On Monday, a spokesperson for Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment about Kennedy’s reported remarks.

They were included in an in-depth New Yorker profile otherwise remarkable for containing the story of how Kennedy came to dump a dead bear in Central Park 10 years ago.

Kennedy sought to pre-empt coverage of the bear story, posting video of him recounting it to the actor and Trump supporter Roseanne Barr and saying: “Looking forward to seeing how you spin this one, New Yorker.”

The published description of the dumping of the bear carcass largely followed Kennedy’s own. The magazine did include a picture of Kennedy posing with his fingers in the bear’s bloodied mouth and the verdict of “a retired Bronx homicide commander” who spoke to the New York Times about the episode, which was reported in 2014: “People are crazy.”

The profile author, Clare Malone, wrote: “When I asked Kennedy about the incident, he said, ‘Maybe that’s where I got my brain worm.’”

That was a reference to a report in which the Times surfaced a deposition from one of Kennedy’s divorces in which he said a parasitic worm ate part of his brain.

Then, Kennedy said: “I offer to eat five more brain worms and still beat President Trump and President Biden in a debate.”

Joe Biden has since dropped out of November’s race, in favour of his vice-president, Kamala Harris. Kennedy’s polling numbers have slipped, but both major campaigns still fear his impact in battleground states.

A son of Robert F Kennedy, a former US attorney general and New York senator, and nephew of John F Kennedy, the 35th president, Kennedy is an environmental attorney turned vaccine conspiracy theorist and political gadfly. He was nine and 14, respectively, when his uncle and father were each assassinated.

The New Yorker profile contained extensive descriptions of his gilded upbringing, his drug use, his sexual behaviour, his environmental work and his slide into anti-vaccine campaigning, efforts supercharged by the Covid pandemic.

According to the New Yorker, in the texts in which he abused Trump – thereby joining JD Vance, Trump’s running mate whose previous disdain has been widely reported – Kennedy also said Biden was “more dangerous to the Republic and the planet”.

Speculation Kennedy would drop out and accept a job from Trump surged around the posted call between the two men and the Republican convention. Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, Kennedy’s daughter-in-law and campaign director, told the New Yorker Trump had indeed offered Kennedy a job.

“They said, ‘You know, we know that you take more from us than you take from Biden … Is there something that you would want to do?’” Fox Kennedy reportedly remarked.

She said Kennedy would be interested in secretary of health and human services, but he would also listen to offers from Harris.

Kennedy has achieved ballot access in about a dozen states. Nonetheless, Fox Kennedy said the campaign thought it could win the White House via a contingent election: in which no candidate wins enough electoral college votes, throwing the choice to the House of Representatives.

As the New Yorker noted, at the end of a profile bizarre and picaresque even by the outlandish standards of the 2024 election, this was “also a plot device on the HBO comedy series Veep”.

Simone Biles’s third and perhaps last Olympic Games came to an end on Monday afternoon with the floor exercise final, where she was pipped by Brazilian rival Rebeca Andrade for the gold by 0.033 points.

The 27-year-old, the most decorated women’s gymnast ever and the oldest American woman to make an Olympic gymnastics team since the 1950s, added a fourth medal at these Paris Games after previous golds in the team event, the all-around and the vault. She has now won 11 medals in an extraordinary Olympic career spanning eight years.

Competing third to last of the nine finalists, Biles was given a standing ovation after an extraordinary routine where she completed the eponymous Biles II triple double on the first pass and a Biles I double layout with half twist on the third, but was dinged by deductions for stepping out of bounds that left her 0.033 behind Andrade.

Jordan Chiles of the United States took the bronze, climbing from fifth to third after an inquiry. She was reduced to tears of joy after her updated score of 13.766 flashed on the screen, only 0.066 points clear of the Romanian pair of Ana Barbosu and Sabrina Maneca-Voinea.

Biles extended her mark as the most decorated women’s gymnast ever, with a combined 41 medals between the Olympics and world championships.

“I can’t be more proud of how I’ve done,” she said afterwards. “I’m 27 years old walking away from this Games with four medals to add to my collection. Not mad about it.”

With a second career gold to add to her three silvers and one bronze, the popular Andrade became the most decorated Brazilian Olympian ever. Andrade’s other gold came at Tokyo 2020 in the vault after Biles pulled out.

Earlier Biles had missed out on her fourth medal in the balance beam on Monday after she fell during her routine and finished in fifth place, one position ahead of her US teammate Suni Lee, who also fell.

Meanwhile, Italy’s Alice D’Amato didn’t win that final so much as survive it. But a routine that avoided major errors turned out to be enough for the 21-year-old from Brescia to win an improbable Olympic title, her country’s first ever gold medal in artistic gymnastics, sharing the podium with teammate Manila Esposito, who earned bronze. Biles finished fifth with an identical score to Lee, while Chinese teenager Zhou Yaqin took silver.

On the final day of a meet that began seven days ago with Italy capturing their first medal in artistic gymnastics in 96 years, Brescia and Esposito managed to hold their nerve while one heralded rival after another made costly mistakes in a beam final whose footage won’t be sent to the Olympic Museum in Lausanne for posterity.

The beam, which dares gymnasts to perform routines of extraordinary rigour on a platform 4ft above the ground and not much wider than a credit card, is the sport’s most precarious apparatus. On Monday in what can only be described as one of those days, at least half of the eight finalists fell victim to the discipline’s essential unpredictability.

Competing first in the running order of eight was Zhou, the 18-year-old Olympic debutante who took silver on beam behind Biles at last year’s worlds, who was on her way to a flawless routine before a balance check that forced her to bend over and grab the beam, drawing audible gasps from the crowd and a significant deduction from the judges. Her score of 14.100 was a disappointment after qualifying highest with 14.866.

Next was Lee, who put together a solid set until slipping on the last skill of her aerial series and splitting the beam in what appeared to be a very painful fall. She was consoled by longtime coach Jess Graba after completing her set for a score of 13.100, ending her Paris Games with a team gold and two bronzes, including one in the all-around, no minor haul for a gymnast who overcame a pair of career-threatening kidney ailments just to reach the starting line.

The door was suddenly open for Biles to become the third Olympic beam champion from the United States after Shannon Miller and Shawn Johnson.

But first D’Amato took to the apparatus and breezed through a mistake-free routine for a score of 13.466, which moved her into gold and guaranteed her a medal, prompting roars of applause from the crowd.

The clouds had parted for Biles to win an eighth Olympic gold and first ever on the beam, but she walked backward and off the beam after a back handspring-layout stepout-layout stepout, a sequence she’s rarely erred on historically. Biles climbed back on and stuck her dismount then, after an interminable wait, she was given a score of 14.100, the same as Lee and out of the medals.

Earlier, China’s Zou Jingyuan won the gold in the men’s gymnastics parallel bars event, becoming the first man in 32 years to win medals on rings and bars at the same Olympics. Ukraine’s Illia Kovtun won the silver medal and Japan’s Shinnosuke Oka took the bronze. In the men’s horizontal bar final, Oka won his third gold medal of the Olympics in a final riddled with mistakes. Colombian teenager Angel Barajas took silver and Taiwan’s Tang Chia-hung and China’s Zhang Boheng shared bronze.

Downing Street has criticised comments by Elon Musk who posted on X that “civil war is inevitable” under a video of violent riots in Liverpool.

Keir Starmer’s spokesperson said the violence came from a small minority of people who “do not speak for Britain” and said the prime minister did not share the sentiments of the billionaire, who has previously been criticised for allowing far-right figures back on to his social media platform.

“There’s no justification for comments like that,” the spokesperson said. “What we’ve seen in this country is organised, violent thuggery that has no place, either on our streets or online.

“We’re talking about a minority of thugs that do not speak for Britain, and in response to it, we’ve seen some of the best of our communities coming out and cleaning up the mess [and] the disruption of those that don’t speak for our country, and we’ve seen the response for people that do speak for our country. I think you can tell from that that the prime minister does not share those sentiments.”

Starmer warned after a Cobra meeting with senior cabinet ministers, police chiefs and Ministry of Justice officials that the police would pursue those organising online incitement.

“If you’re inciting violence, it doesn’t matter whether it’s online or offline,” he said. “And therefore I expect, just as in relation to those that are directly participating on the streets, for there to be arrests and charging and prosecution.

“Equally, anyone who has been found to have committed a criminal offence online can expect the same response.”

No 10 said work was taking place to impress upon social media companies that they already had a duty to remove criminal content. “The government is working with social media platforms to ensure that they are removing content quickly [and] that their processes are in place, but there is more that they can and should be doing,” the spokesperson said.

“They have a responsibility to ensure the safety of their users and online spaces, to ensure that criminal activity is not being hosted on their platforms. They shouldn’t be waiting for the Online Safety Act for that. They already have responsibilities in place under the law … They have responsibilities that we will hold them to account for.”

The technology secretary, Peter Kyle, is expected to meet social media bosses in the coming days, the spokesperson said.

“We have seen some action over the last few days by social media companies to ensure that their automated processes are working, that there is rapid response to misleading criminal content online and that that is being suppressed or removed, but as I said, this doesn’t go far enough and this is subject to the conversations that the DSIT [Department for Science, Innovation and Technology] secretary continues to have.”

Musk was responding to a video posted on X by the Libs of TikTok account, originally posted by the far-right activist Tommy Robinson, who has been spreading videos of rioting that has targeted mosques and hotels housing asylum seekers.

Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was banned from X in 2018, when it was known as Twitter, but his account was restored by Musk last year under his new ownership. Musk has since interacted with Robinson on the platform, posting exclamation marks under at least one of his posts about the violence.

Musk has amplified a number of accounts posting inflammatory content about the violence, by commenting or posting exclamation marks under the users’ posts.

Speaking to reporters after the Cobra meeting, Starmer said a “standing army” of specialist public duty officers was being introduced to ensure police could deal with the disorder where needed.

The government has said there are enough prison places to deal with those going through the court system after hundreds of arrests, despite warnings a fortnight ago that prisons capacity was nearing its limit. An extra 70 prosecutors were on duty over the weekend to charge criminals, and more than 60 remand courts were held across 50 locations on Saturday.

Starmer said the blame for squeezed capacity in prisons lay with the previous government and that he was “appalled” it was even a consideration, but added: “We will make this work and ensure that we have got the places that are needed to bring the perpetrators swiftly to justice.”

The prime minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, has resigned and left the country, the head of the army has confirmed, amid some of the worst violence since the birth of the south Asian country more than 50 years ago.

In a briefing to reporters, Army Chief Gen Waker-Uz-Zaman announced he was assuming control at “a critical time for our country” and would establish an interim government.

“I am taking responsibility now and we will go to the president and ask to form an interim government to lead the country in the meantime.”

Hasina, 76, who has ruled Bangladesh since 2009, left by helicopter, a source close to the leader told Agence France-Presse news agency shortly after protesters had stormed her palace in the capital, Dhaka.

Celebrations erupted among the crowds who had been on the streets of Dhaka for another day of protests.

The internet was cut for several hours overnight and residents told the Guardian of raids and gunshots, including in the most affluent areas, before a planned mass protest called for Monday.

Hasina’s government was accused by rights groups of misusing state institutions to entrench its hold on power and stamp out dissent, including through the killing of opposition activists.

The latest student-led protests began over a quota system they said disproportionately allocated government jobs to the descendants of freedom fighters from the 1971 independence war.

The government’s harsh crackdown on protests has led to hundreds of deaths, which continued despite the supreme court overturning the quota law. Agence France-Presse reported there had been 94 deaths on Sunday.

The demonstrations escalated despite the scheme having been scaled back by Bangladesh’s top court. The anti-government movement had attracted people from across society – including actors, musicians and singers – in the south Asian country of about 170 million people.

During the briefing at army headquarters, Zaman promised an investigation into the deaths.

A curfew was put in place on Monday and offices and factories were closed but protesters have still taken to the streets. Bangladeshi TV channels showed jubilant demonstrators dancing and chanting at locations across Dhaka.

One protester sent the Guardian a video of a crowd marching and shouting in celebration, some of them waving Bangladeshi flags, near Shahbagh, where protesters had planned to gather.

“I feel out of this world, we’re dancing in the streets now,” she said. “People are celebrating, singing, dancing. I’ve never seen this many tears of joy. People are smiling and crying at the same time.”

The celebrations have in some places turned unruly, with thousands raiding the prime minister’s residence and seen looting items, including vegetables from the gardens and live fish from the ponds in the grounds. Cars could be seen burning inside the compound. There has been vandalism on several offices of Hasina’s party, the Awami League, across the capital city, with at least one being set on fire.

A statue of Hasina’s father, the founding father of Bangladesh and former President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, was also attacked and smashed by a mob, according to witnesses.

Badiul Alam Majumdar, a civil society activist, who founded the group Citizens for Good Governance, said people hugged him as he walked the streets.

“These are the heroes and heroines,” he said, referring to protesting students. “We had a crazy dictator. What we are now concerned about is who will benefit from this revolution? And that, in fact, is what we are watching – a revolution.”

The sense of jubilation has been tempered by concern about instability because of the chaos on the streets. The army has announced Dhaka airport will be closed for six hours.

Hasina is the longest-serving leader in the history of the predominantly Muslim country. Before being elected in 2009, in a vote boycotted by the opposition, she had already been prime minister between 1996 and 2001.

Her political opponents have accused her of growing increasingly autocratic and called her a threat to democracy.

Her father, the independence leader of Bangladesh, was assassinated in 1975 during an army coup. Most of his family members were killed, with the exception of his two daughters, Hasina and Sheikh Rehana. Regional media reported Monday afternoon that the two sisters had now fled to India with tens of thousands of people tracking a Hercules military plane thought to be hers.

Elon Musk is once again suing OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, resurrecting a case against his former partners that now claims they manipulated him into co-founding the artificial intelligence company.

Months after abruptly withdrawing a similar lawsuit without explanation, Musk filed a new lawsuit on Monday in a northern California federal court.

His latest complaint claims the case is a “textbook tale of altruism versus greed”, repeating allegations in his previous suit that his former co-founders in OpenAI betrayed him by turning the company from a non-profit into a largely for-profit enterprise. “The perfidy and deceit is of Shakespearean proportions,” it states.

OpenAI and a lawyer for Musk did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The lawsuit renews a legal battle between Musk, the world’s richest man and one of its most influential tech leaders, and Altman, who has become the face of the generative AI boom in recent years and a prominent industry figure himself. The two co-founded OpenAI in 2015 before Musk left the company over an internal power struggle several years later. As Altman’s power grew, their relationship turned increasingly acrimonious.

Musk’s new lawsuit centers around a similar claim to the one he filed in February, arguing that Altman, his other co-founder Greg Brockman and OpenAI broke what he calls the “founding agreement” to develop artificial intelligence for the betterment of humanity. The company breached that agreement as it pivoted towards a partnership with Microsoft and became largely for-profit, Musk alleges, threatening humanity with reckless advancement of AI.

OpenAI and Altman vehemently pushed back against Musk’s original allegations, casting him as a bitter and petty ex-partner who is jealous of the company’s success after he left. In a March blog post following the initial suit, Altman and other OpenAI executives published emails claiming to show that Musk always supported a shift toward for-profit status and stated: “We’re sad that it’s come to this with someone whom we’ve deeply admired.”

The new complaint contains additional allegations that OpenAI broke federal racketeering laws, Musk’s lawyer told The New York Times, and is “a much more forceful lawsuit” than the previous dropped suit. It also alleges that Altman and his associates participated in “numerous acts of wire fraud” through accepting financial contributions from Musk.

“​​After Musk lent his name to the venture, invested significant time, tens of millions of dollars in seed capital and recruited top AI scientists for OpenAI Inc, Musk and the non-profit’s namesake objective were betrayed by Altman and his accomplices,” the suit states.

Musk’s original case against Altman and OpenAI wound through California courts for weeks and included his lawyers successfully petitioning for a change of judge, but they pulled the suit without comment one day before a San Francisco superior court judge was set to hear Altman and OpenAI’s case for dismissal.

Musk also founded his own rival AI company last year, called xAI, and has pursued building a similar chatbot to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Musk’s chatbot has failed to gain the popularity or partnerships with big tech companies that ChatGPT has achieved, however, and faced backlash for spreading misinformation.

Five US secretaries of state announced on Monday that they planned to send a letter to Musk demanding changes to the chatbot after it promoted falsehoods about the 2024 presidential election.

The Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro has vowed to “pulverise” the latest challenge to his rule and told troops he is “willing to do anything” to protect his “revolution” amid growing criticism of the crackdown that followed last week’s disputed election.

Maduro says more than 2,000 people have been arrested in the days since the 28 July vote while human rights groups say at least 22 people have been killed.

On Sunday, the EU said it was “seriously concerned” about the growing number of arbitrary detentions in Venezuela and the harassment of the opposition, which has produced evidence suggesting its candidate, Edmundo González, won the election.

“The European Union calls on Venezuelan authorities to put an end to arbitrary detentions, repression and violent rhetoric against members of the opposition and civil society, and to release all political prisoners,” the EU’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said in a statement.

Canadian foreign minister Mélanie Joly also condemned the violence in a statement on Sunday and said citizen witnesses and international observers had provided “credible evidence” that the results provided by Maduro’s authorities “don’t reflect the will of the Venezuelan people”.

Maduro, who claims he won the election but has yet to provide proof, rejected such criticism on Sunday during a military ceremony in Caracas.

“The EU is a disgrace,” Maduro told members of the Bolivarian National Guard, a branch of the military that has been involved in the clampdown.

Decorating troops whom Maduro said were injured while responding to post-election disturbances last Monday and Tuesday, Venezuela’s authoritarian president said: “We are confronting, defeating, containing and pulverising an attempted coup in Venezuela”.

Maduro, who was elected after the 2013 death of his mentor Hugo Chávez, urged military chiefs to order a “total deployment” of their troops in response to the opposition challenge. Earlier, Venzeuela’s president told troops equipped with rifles and riot shields: “You can be certain that we will go after all of the criminals and all of the fascists because fascism will not seize power in Venezuela. I am willing to do anything and I am counting on you to ensure order, law and the constitution prevail.”

Sunday’s event appeared designed to send a message of military unity at a time when Maduro’s political opponents have been urging the armed forces to abandon Chávez’s unpopular heir. Twenty-four hours earlier, tens of thousands of pro-government protests marched to the presidential palace in what was designed to be a similar show of public support.

During Sunday’s televised ceremony, one young soldier took the microphone to declare complete fealty to his commander-in-chief: “Be mindful that you have a Bolivarian National Guard that is committed, devoted and absolutely from the bottom of its heart loyal to you and to the Bolivarian revolution.”

“We are aware that only with you leading us the homeland will not be lost; that only with you leading us the flame of revolution will not go out,” the soldier told Maduro.

The government’s increasingly hard-line rhetoric and the wave of arrests has spooked government opponents although they returned to the streets on Saturday after being summoned by María Corina Machado, the charismatic opposition leader who turbocharged González’s campaign.

“After six days of brutal repression they thought they would silence us, frighten us and paralyse us … [But] we are going to go all the way,” Machado told thousands of supporters.

Writing in the Economist, González rejected Maduro’s claim that his campaign was responsible for stirring up violence or behind a conspiracy to illegally seize power.

“It would be against my principles and against my lifelong record to advocate any violence, let alone a coup d’état. The regime, on the contrary, seems to be willing to stay in power by any means possible, including the use of violence,” added González, a 74-year-old diplomat who agreed to stand for the presidency after Machado was banned from running.

The former ambassador claimed he had won “a large, indisputable majority” in the election and called for “a competent, impartial verification of the election results with urgency”.

The US and other countries have recognised González’s win while left-wing governments of Venezuela’s neighbours, Brazil and Colombia, have urged Maduro to release detailed election data in a bid to defuse the growing crisis. On Sunday, the British foreign secretary, David Lammy, tweeted: “It is essential that the safety of the democratic opposition is respected.”

But Maduro, who is widely blamed for a crippling economic crisis that has forced about eight million citizens to flee abroad, has given no hint of being prepared to publicly release such data, let alone relinquish power. On Sunday he called one political opponent “a filthy rat” and others “demonic forces”, comparing his foes to Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Francisco Franco. “I will never surrender,” Maduro declared.

As chip manufacturers grapple for billions of dollars in federal funds and tax breaks designed to boost the US semiconductor industry, they face growing calls from inside their factories to improve working conditions and pay.

Workers and labour unions are urging key companies in the sector to “do the right thing” and prioritize the wellbeing of employees over the wealth of their shareholders.

Dozens of employees at Analog Devices Inc (ADI), a chipmaker in Oregon, demanding living wages, paid shutdowns and safe working conditions as it vies for a slice of the $39bn in federal funds provided by the Chips and Science Act, signed by Joe Biden in 2022.

In interviews with the Guardian, workers at ADI’s Beaverton plant described a “real struggle to survive” on their salaries while the industry booms. ADI did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Companies across the sector have faced greater scrutiny of their labor practices. In January, TSMC reached an agreement with local unions, while Micron agreed in April to meet with workers to discuss workers’ rights at new chip plants and to work on a labor peace agreement.

At ADI, more than 100 workers have signed a petition so far urging the company to increase pay, end mandatory shutdowns that places workers on furloughs and improve safety around hazardous chemicals.

Those behind the petition claimed they have even greater support, but said many workers fear retaliation for signing the petition. A coalition of environmental organizations and unions, including the United Auto Workers, Sierra Club and Communications Workers of America, have publicly supported the effort.

“As it stands to receive millions of public dollars, we expect ADI to do the right thing and guarantee that its workers have the benefits and protections they are demanding,” said Carl Kennebrew, president of the industrial division of the Communications Workers of America, IUE-CWA.

One operator at the ADI plant, Robbie Garecht, described working regularly with hydrofluoric acid. He has had to pour the chemical, which can immediately cause caustic burns upon contact with skin or tissue, into a funnel without a sensor to know when it’s full and having to stand awkwardly to try to avoid spilling it. This has been a consistent issue plaguing workers at the plant, he said.

“We definitely would all be safer if we had a specialized team that did these kinds of things and was well-trained or compensated for it,” said Garecht, “rather than whoever is assigned to it. Those chemicals are required elements you need to make semiconductors, so it’s always going to be an inherently dangerous job. But it just seems they don’t take that into account with how well they’re going to compensate us.”

Workers are pushing for a $27 minimum wage at the semiconductor plant, which they say is the minimum required to live in the Beaverton area. They are currently paid around $21 an hour.

“It’s a real struggle to survive on what they pay us,” Garecht said. “Even when I found the cheapest studio apartment I could find in the area for me and my six year old, I still can not afford to sustain myself.”

A report published by the Institute for Policy Studies in July called for greater measures to ensure federal funds are not used by corporations to further increase executive compensation and stock repurchases.

ADI paid $25.5m to their CEO Vincent Roche in total compensation in 2023, the report noted: 527 times the company’s median worker pay. The company has also spent $9bn on stock buybacks since 2019 and has planned another $2bn in stock buybacks.

“They’re essentially getting all this influx of funding, their stock is at an all time high and they’re spending money on stock buybacks and expansions, and they’re not dedicating funding towards the workers who are the whole reason they’re making this money,” said Ben Coffey, another ADI worker in Beaverton. “Most people I work with are making some kind of compromise or sacrifice to be able to continue working there. I can’t sustain myself without having a roommate, without watching my budget.”

He criticized recent comments from Tina Kotek, the Oregon governor, who recently announced millions of dollars in state funding for chip manufacturers including Analog Devices. One state senator was quoted as saying the investment would help create more “family-wage” jobs.

“Governor Tina Kotek wants to grow more family-wage jobs, but this isn’t a family-wage job,” said Coffey. “This is hardly a studio apartment job. I think people are under a misconception that because the industry is booming, workers are doing well. And that just simply isn’t the case.”

ADI workers are also pushing for an end to plant shutdowns that place workers on furloughs, forcing them to use their vacation time or go into vacation debt in order to continue being paid for those shutdowns. The most recent shutdown took place over two weeks last December.

“Most people started the year coming back, essentially, in a vacation deficit. So they had to work back for the vacation time that they had to expend for their two weeks off that they didn’t ask for,” added Coffey. “What we’re asking for is a fair share. We’re just asking to be able to sustain ourselves.”

If the axiom that a dog is man’s best friend holds any credence, Dolce & Gabbana has now elevated it with the introduction of its latest perfume: a mist for dogs.

But the RSPCA has warned against messing with dogs’ sense of smell by giving them their own fragrance, warning the odour could come across as unpleasant for them – and hamper their ability to connect with their surroundings.

“Unconditional love”, “loyal” and “playful” are some of the words at the heart of the Italian fashion house’s latest campaign for a new alcohol-free scented mist for dogs.

“I am delicate, authentic, charismatic,” the advertisement begins as it flips through footage of a finely groomed dachshund, chihuahua and bichon frisé all perched atop a stool. “Cause I’m not just a dog, I’m Fefé.”

For €99 (£84), owners can have their pets smelling of the “warm notes” of ylang ylang, musk and sandalwood. The new luxury dog mist has a 24-carat gold-plated paw on the glass bottle and customers are offered an exclusive Dolce & Gabbana dog collar with a tag.

However, the RSPCA senior scientific officer Alice Potter said: “Sometimes dogs can be anthropomorphised and the lines can become blurred between what dogs like and what we, as humans, think they’ll like.”

Potter added: “Dogs rely on their sense of smell to communicate and interact with their environment as well as the people and other animals within it. Therefore we advise that strong-scented products such as perfumes or sprays are avoided, especially as some smells can be really unpleasant for dogs.”

Whether there is a market for Fefé – named after the dog of the brand’s co-founder Domenico Dolce – remains to be seen.

“We’re distributing Fefé right away throughout Europe, in the US and then, little by little, we’ll expand; it’s already available online,” Stefano Gabbana, the brand’s other co-founder, told the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. “The market has reacted well; everyone went crazy at the announcement.”

Dog fragrances are hardly new but the foray from a top fashion house is a first. By 2030, the global pet industry – including vet care, pet food and pharmaceuticals among others – is expected to balloon to $500bn from an annual $320bn, according to a 2023 Bloomberg intelligence report.

Diana Rosero-Pena, a Bloomberg analyst and co-author of the report, said: “We’re seeing a profound increase in consumer spending on pets and expect to see this continue through 2030. Consumers are willing to pay more for items for their pets.”

In 2007 the luxury London department store Harrods introduced a dog perfume called Sexy Beast. In February 2022, Elizabeth II launched Happy Hounds dog cologne, embellished with the Sandringham royal estate crest. For £20, the British retailer Space NK sells a dog spray with “crisp top notes”. Kiehl’s, owned by L’Oréal, sells a cuddly coat spritz for £18.