🇾🇪❌🇾🇪 — Ansarallah ballistic missiles impacted Ma'rib, Presidential Leadership Council-controlled Yemen, around 30 minutes ago.

🇳🇿🇨🇳⚡️ — Pacific Island foreign ministers are expected to debate on Friday whether to issue a joint statement on China's July missile launch into the Pacific, with New Zealand pushing for a unified response.

New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters acknowledged that divisions among member states could prevent an agreement, saying the talks would test whether countries could overcome entrenched positions on the issue.

🇮🇶🇸🇦⚡️ — Badr Organization Secretary-General Hadi al-Amiri has called on Iraqi militias to not retaliate against Saudi Arabia for the Saudi-American airstrikes against PMF sites on July 28-29. Badr Organization directly controls ten brigades of the Popular Mobilization Forces and is embedded deep within Iraqi state institutions.

🇾🇪❌🇾🇪 — Yemen's Joint Operations Command says 17 military personnel, including officers and soldiers, were killed and several others wounded in the Houthi (Ansarallah) missile and drone attack on Thursday.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🪖⚡️ — U.S. intelligence assessments warn that Russian President Vladimir Putin could test NATO's resolve within the next few years through limited actions ranging from cyberattacks and hybrid operations to a small-scale land incursion against a NATO member, WSJ reports.

The assessment changed earlier this year as Russia has come under increasing pressure in Ukraine, with Ukrainian drone strikes damaging military and energy infrastructure while Russian advances have slowed. Officials believe Putin could seek to fracture NATO by exploiting ambiguity over the alliance's response to cyber and hybrid attacks.

The assessments estimate any such move could occur between this fall and 2029. While a direct land incursion remains unlikely, officials say the risk increases over time.

🇪🇹🇪🇷⚡️ — During an interview with the regional Oromo Broadcasting Network, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed declared that the neighboring state of Eritrea was not only a part of Ethiopia but was also rightfully part of the Oromo people's land.

📝With Ethiopia's federation increasingly strained by long-lasting ethnic conflict, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed appears to be rallying support from the Oromo region and his people in his plan to conquer Eritrea.

🇺🇸⚡️ — President Trump posted an AI-generated photo of himself and John F. Kennedy at Camp David.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — President Trump reposted an article on Truth Social with the title, "Donald Trump Won The Iran War."

🇨🇳🇮🇱🇪🇸🇲🇦⚡️ — Chinese intelligence suspects Mossad orchestrated the Ceuta migrant crisis and that Israel launched it as a hybrid warfare operation against Spain over Madrid's pro-Palestinian stance, according to El Mundo.

🇮🇶🇮🇶🇸🇦⚡️ — Spokesman for the Commander of the Iraqi Armed Forces told Al-Arabiya that Iraq has begun implementing a security plan to stop the Islamic Resistance in Iraq from attacking Saudi Arabia.

🇲🇲⚡️ — Anti-junta rebels attacked a Burmese military boat located in the Salween River in the Kawthaung Township, killing one soldier.

🇲🇲⚡️ — Anti-junta rebels launched more FPV attacks against the Tatmadaw on different fronts.

🇺🇸🇨🇺🇷🇺🇨🇳⚡️ — The U.S. sanctioned Cuba’s military attaché in Beijing, Waldo Pérez Cortés, along with five other Cuban nationals and five defense-linked entities, accusing them of procuring military equipment from China and Russia for Cuba’s armed forces.

🇺🇸⚡️ — Chicago Tribune reports that at least 57 decomposing bodies have been found stuffed inside closets and the garage at a funeral home in Chicago, Illinois.

Previously, residents had reported a foul odor in the air outside of the building.