The royal palace announced his death, after which his son Crown Prince Haakon automatically succeeded him to the throne. Harald had been Europe's oldest reigning monarch and served as Norway's king since 1991

US diplomats walked out of a UN Security Council meeting as France criticised the Trump administration's human rights record following Washington's opposition to extending UN rights chief Volker Türk's tenure. The incident underscored growing tensions between the US and its European allies over human rights and foreign policy.