Latvia has tightened security around a major hydroelectric dam and the Incukalns underground gas storage facility after intelligence indicated a potential Russian threat.

Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs also asked NATO for more air defenses and allied troops, warned of possible Russian interference in Latvia’s October election, and criticized EU countries blocking new sanctions on Russia.

Source: Reuters

Satellite images from July 16 reveal the destruction of three buildings at Zayed Military City in Abu Dhabi.

Xi Jinping on China's AI vision:

In China's view, all countries should take a people-centered approach and develop AI for the positive and for good.

We should ensure that AI is an important driver for shared prosperity and common security.

We should join hands to build a just and equitable system for global AI governance.

Xi Jinping on China's AI vision:

AI development and its application should not erode or undermine the diversity of world civilizations or the uniqueness of cultures of different countries.

We must shape the values of AI with humanity's common values and make good use of AI technologies to increase understanding, tolerance, exchanges, and sharing among all civilizations.

We should tend to the garden of civilizations with great care to ensure that the beauty of each civilization is appreciated and shared.

Xi Jinping on China's AI vision:

We must make its oversight and governance precise and effective and constantly refine measures to forestall loss of control.

We should always guide AI development with human wisdom and international consensus, so that AI can truly become a mighty force that increases the well-being of humanity and advances human civilization.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi:

We will make cleanliness our habit. Cleanliness will become our culture.

We will make cleanliness a part of our everyday lives.

Kuwait said an Iranian strike damaged a power generation and water desalination plant, causing a fire and disrupting electricity production.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich:

Even Netanyahu has an arrest warrant from The Hague, and he is one of the world's greatest leaders.

There is enormous international hypocrisy and enormous antisemitism.

They're trying to issue arrest warrants against me in The Hague as well because I'm establishing communities, building roads, and, as they put it, destroying the idea of a two-state solution.

I'm proud of that.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich:

There will never be a Jewish theocracy in Israel.

This idea of a Jewish theocracy is a fictional demon—it doesn't exist.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich:

We're too careful about the enemy, and at times we put our own soldiers at greater risk.

That's not the most moral approach.

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir:

Before October 7, I was sitting in the cabinet. I told them, "Let's bomb Gaza. Bomb Gaza. Bomb Gaza."

They looked at me as if I were crazy.

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir:

You should see what happens when we enter the prisons. They're afraid.

One prison officer told me that when we entered Marwan Barghouti's cell, he had tears in his eyes. We went into his cell.

He started folding, backing down, becoming afraid.

Today, we speak to them exactly the way they should be spoken to. And it works. It works, my friends.

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir:

We go into the prisons, and they wet themselves.

I'm not joking—they wet themselves. They're afraid.

Fear rules them, and that's how it should be.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi:

Israel is using U.S. taxpayer dollars to silence any U.S. critics.

It will all soon unravel.

Zelensky says Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) destroyed a Russian Tu-95 strategic bomber at the Engels airbase.

China denied President Donald Trump's claim that it interfered in the 2020 U.S. election, calling the accusation groundless and saying it has never sought to influence American elections.

Beijing urged Washington to stop politicizing China in U.S. elections and said it hopes the dispute will not harm bilateral relations ahead of President Xi Jinping's planned September visit to the United States.

Source: ABC News

Andy Burnham has become Labour leader and is expected to become UK prime minister on Monday, replacing Keir Starmer.

Trump:

Great reviews on speech last night. Big audience.

Pass THE SAVE AMERICA ACT!!!

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U.S. strikes hit 6 bridges overnight near Bandar Abbas on Iran's coast, only several located so far.

Strikes appear aimed at cutting this coastal stretch off from supply lines to the rest of Iran, possibly as a prelude to a US invasion of nearby Qeshm Island (or to create that impression).