🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- US struck two fishing vessels in the waters of Bandar Kargan, southern Iran, Tasnim News reports.

The Iranian outlet adds there's a possibility of casualties from the attacks.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump posts on Truth social calling those fearmongering about AI no different than those who said climate change would end the world.

Trump calls himself the "Hoax Buster" and says that AI doomerism is the same as Russia conspiracy theories and climate alarmism.

🇺🇸⚡️- These posts come as Democrats are honing more and more midterm messaging on AI fears promising a moratorium on AI development and all but a nationalization of the industry.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump reportedly met with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at the Republican National Convention on Thursday—at Altman’s request—to discuss AI's “growing power”, according to MS NOW.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Saudi / Yemeni airstrikes on Ta'izz Airport, near the town of al-Janad, Ansarullah-controlled southern Yemen.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Alerts in southern Saudi Arabia - Ansarullah attack ongoing.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Explosions heard were likely interceptions across several points in southern Saudi Arabia. No confirmed impacts have been reported in the latest Ansarullah attack.

🇾🇪⚡- Earlier this morning, the Ansarullah launched an attack on Harib, Ma'rib direction, for the second time this week after the first ended in failure.

The al-Houthi attack was repelled.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Saudi Arabia is shelling the Ansarullah-controlled al-Buq heights, northern Yemen, with a combination of rockets and artillery.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Saudi / Yemeni airstrike on a weapons depot in Jabal Hilan, Ansarullah-controlled Ma'rib, central Yemen. Secondary explosions continue at the site.

🇸🇦🇮🇷⚡- An Iranian government aircraft, IRAN06, has landed in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

🇸🇦🇮🇷⚡️- This plane was likely carrying Iran's Minister of Science, Research and Technology alongside a small Iranian delegation to participate in the Fourth UNESCO Global Forum on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence.

🇻🇦🇫🇷⚡️- As Pope Leo prepares to head to France for a 3-stop tour later this month, medias have revealed that the Holy See denied a list of requests from the French government.

Among these denied requests figures a "private meeting with Macron in Notre-Dame" and a formal dinner with the French president. The Holy See also refused to let the French Republican Guard take part in the ceremonies.

🇸🇩⚡- Sudanese air defences intercepted multiple drones over the disputed al-Fashaga region after they attempted to strike the Upper Atbara Dam and the Setit Dam.

It remains unclear who launched the drones. However, the aircraft approached their targets via the al-Fashaga region rather than through Sudanese-controlled territory. This would make the involvement of Rapid Support Forces, RSF, operating from within Sudan less likely.

Sudanese media have variously blamed the Ethiopian government, Addis Ababa-backed al-Fashaga militias, or RSF elements on Ethiopian territory. In response, certain circles within the Sudanese media are calling for a retaliatory strike on Ethiopia's GERD.

🇪🇺🇫🇮⚡️- European leaders have backed Finland’s push for a joint EU icebreaker fleet, with the vessels potentially being built and based there as Arctic shipping grows and the region becomes more strategically important in competition with Russia and China.

🇸🇦🇪🇬⚡- Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrives in Cairo and is received by Egypt's El-Sisi.

🇪🇺🇸🇦⚡- Saudi Arabia has told some European oil refiners that their September shipments have been cancelled following the Ansarullah attacks on three pumping stations along the East-West pipeline forcing it to cease operations temporarily.

🇲🇾🇮🇱⚡- Malaysia's Coast Guard has seized another three Israeli-bound cargo vessels within its water-spaces.

All three vessels called at the Port of Tanjung Pelepas, southwest Malaysia, and were carrying cargo from China.

🇾🇪🇮🇶🇸🇦⚡️- BREAKING: Saudi Arabia suspends oil loading at Yabnu's port terminal along the Red Sea.