Marco Rubio on Iran:

Iran could be the richest country in the Middle East if they wanted to be.

But they give all of their money to their proxies and spend it to build missiles and drones.

Reporter: Is the U.S. seeking regime change in Iran?

Rubio: We are seeking to denuclearize Iran.

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Reporter: Did you talk to the Russians about Russia sharing information with Iran targeting U.S. troops?

Rubio: Who says that they are?

Reporter: Are they not?

Rubio: Who says they are?

Reporter: There's been reporting...

Rubio: Reporting in the media? Oh, then it must be true. It's in the media. It's a leaker. I'm not going to—let me say, let's imagine that were true. I certainly wouldn't discuss it in the press.

Nothing that anyone's doing to help Iran, is in any way increasing their ability to target Americans.

Marco Rubio:

I hope that the Houthis stop. They shouldn't really do that. They got suckered into this by the Iranians. The Houthis largely were smart and stayed out of all this throughout the conflict. They now apparently have gotten themselves suckered into this by going after Saudi Arabia and their ships.

I was reading reports a few hours ago that there was actually a Saudi fuel ship that's flagged Chinese. It's a Chinese ship. Are they going to blow up the Chinese ship? Then this becomes a problem for China. This will become a problem for the whole world.

But I hope that will de-escalate because I think the Houthis, frankly, got snookered into this thing by the Iranians. They were smart to stay out of it, and they should stay out of it, and they should stop.

We'll see what happens there. Obviously, it's not a positive development. We'll see what happens.

The Sudanese army found Swedish-made Dometic Medical Systems coolers in areas it recaptured from the UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

The RSF reportedly used these coolers to harvest and traffic the organs of civilians they killed.

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Nine days after meeting Trump at the White House, Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi arrived in Iran on his first official visit since taking office in May.

WATCH: Footage from July 22 appears to show an Iranian projectile hitting King Faisal Air Base in Jordan despite multiple interceptor launches.

The EU has approved its 21st sanctions package against Russia after Greece agreed to lift its veto in exchange for an exemption allowing Greek companies to continue transporting Russian LNG to non-EU customers under pre-2022 contracts.

The package keeps the Russian oil price cap at $44 per barrel for another year and expands sanctions to include more shadow fleet vessels, Russian banks, crypto and oil-trading platforms, metals, and over 250 individuals and companies.

Several proposed measures were watered down during negotiations, including dropping restrictions on Russian fish imports, removing Patriarch Kirill and Lukoil founder Vagit Alekperov from the sanctions list, and scaling back a proposed Schengen entry ban for Russian soldiers.

A YouGov survey found that only 6% of Britons would volunteer to fight if the UK faced an invasion, while 14% would serve if called up.

Around 29% believe the UK could face a full-scale military attack within the next decade, but 51% think it's unlikely.

Most respondents (53%) lack confidence in the UK's military, and 57% believe the government spends too little on defense, though few support raising taxes, cutting public services, or borrowing to fund higher defense spending.

Source: Sky News

BREAKING: A Russian Su-57 fighter jet reportedly crashed near Moscow during a training flight.

According to preliminary reports, the pilot ejected safely and no one was injured.

Türkiye will begin Eurofighter Typhoon pilot training in the UK this August as part of the aircraft acquisition program, with pilot and maintenance training continuing in the coming years.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Chinese AI models:

These Chinese models are excellent. Open-source models that are excellent should be used.

The market misunderstood the impact of DeepSeek the first time. It's misunderstood the impact of Kimi again this time.

Whenever there's more use, you'll have to sell a lot more Nvidia computers, we'll have to build more data centers. We'll have more services.

The technology will diffuse into more industries, which leads to great growth.

Source: Axios

Q: Should American companies be allowed to use Chinese AI models?

Jensen Huang: Absolutely. There's a misconception that somehow there are backdoors, that they're somehow connected to China in some way.

You download the models, you can fine-tune them, you can enhance them, you can guardrail them as you desire.

Source: Axios

Zelensky:

I offered Fedorov the position of Deputy Prime Minister for Military Innovation, along with several other positions.