Nauru opened its first embassy in Israel, in Jerusalem.

The USS Abraham Lincoln left Thailand after a five-day crew rest stop — its first port call after 286 days at sea, including 200+ days in the Iran combat zone.

About 5,000 sailors came ashore in Pattaya, spending an estimated $3 million.

It's now heading home to San Diego after one of the longest carrier deployments in recent memory.

NEW: Saudi Aramco's Jizan refinery was hit again on Monday, the latest in a series of Houthi strikes that have kept the 400,000 barrel-per-day plant offline for weeks.

Houthis claimed dozens of ballistic missiles and drones targeted the site on September 6, calling it retaliation for Saudi drone incursions over Yemen.

The refinery hasn't fully operated since late July, when earlier strikes damaged the tank farm and power complex.

Diesel shipments from the site dropped to zero in August.

Saudi Arabia has been rerouting crude exports via the Red Sea and East-West Pipeline but losing refining capacity is harder to replace than rerouting barrels.

Source: FT

Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar:

There is a great power in a people insisting that the world call their homeland by its own original name. The Jewish people understand this very well.

We are the indigenous people of this land, the land of Israel. Jews are called Jews because we are from Judea.

Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria are not modern political inventions. These are the ancient names, the biblical names of the places where our history was born.

Nauru Vice President Lionel Aingimea:

We always hold Israel in a special place in our hearts.

We firmly believe that supporting Israel gives us blessings from God.

Nauru Vice President Lionel Aingimea:

There are churches in Nauru that have the flag of Israel displayed prominently in their church.

Israel is one country that is constantly lifted up in our intercessory prayers.

Nauru Vice President Lionel Aingimea:

We are in the top three of countries that support Israel.

Number one is America. Number two is the Federated States of Micronesia. And third is Nauru.

Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar:

Israel is very proud that the Christian community here is safe and prosperous and flourishing.

Sadly, this is not the case in many other countries in our region.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez:

The entire European far-right international—and also those on the other side of the Atlantic—are attacking Spain. Well, there must be a reason.

After eight years of progressive government, Spain is proof that the opposite of their hatred is our progress.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez:

We are facing an alliance between an increasingly far-right-leaning right and an increasingly emboldened far right.

Their alliance is based on three priorities: cutting rights and freedoms, privatizing the welfare state, and fracturing social cohesion.

For years, they used the financial crisis — now some want to use war and rearmament.

In short, the same things as always: hatred and fear.

Türkiye’s ASELSAN's new GÜRZ air defense system completed its first live-fire test.

It combines a four-faced AESA radar, electro-optical sensors, guns, and missiles on a single vehicle; offering layered short-range air defense against multiple threat types from one platform.

The GÖKSUR missile performed complex maneuvers during the test.

Fully domestically developed.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Germany:

What we saw yesterday in Saxony is a warning and, I think, also a confirmation.

It is a warning that the far-right threat, thanks largely to the surrender of the traditional right, is gaining ground in Europe and around the world.

And it is also a confirmation that a government like the progressive coalition government we have in Spain is today more necessary than ever.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez:

Denouncing any violation of international law or human rights should be the normal, ethical and responsible thing for all European and world leaders to do, but unfortunately it no longer is.

That is the world we have been forced to live in. And the extraordinary thing should not be that Spain maintains its principles, as we are doing.

The extraordinary thing is that so many others have decided to abandon them.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez:

There are no first-class and second-class human rights.

There are no victims who matter more than others, and there is no international law à la carte depending on whether we are talking about the Middle East or Eastern Europe.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez:

We are going to continue being a firm voice—yes, firm, but above all clear and courageous—where others remain silent.

A European, democratic voice committed to peace.

A voice that defends in Ukraine the same thing it defends in Palestine, and that, of course, defends respect for international law wherever it is violated.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on climate change:

The argument "they were going to die anyway" is not acceptable — although some people would apparently like to repeat it. Climate change kills.

More than 5,000 people have died from causes attributable to high temperatures.

These are silent deaths in many cases, people who do not appear on the front pages of the media or lead the evening news.

Russia's Foreign Minister Lavrov on WW2:

But those same people who helped us through Lend-Lease and the northern convoys, and who promised a second front, later began watching to see which way the pendulum would swing.

In the first year of the war, assistance was provided to us immediately and unconditionally because it was obvious that Hitler — as the West believed at the time — was unstoppable.

It was no accident that the second front was opened only in the spring — really, at the beginning of the summer — of 1944.

Russia's Foreign Minister Lavrov:

As soon as it became necessary to punish Russia, they forgot about the free play of market forces and forgot about the presumption of innocence.

We are not against the dollar. We simply want the dollar — we did not abandon the dollar; they denied us access.

The Americans, Europe, Japan, and everyone who follows their policies are deliberately destroying the model of globalization that they themselves created, nurtured and promoted.

Russia's Lavrov on Operation Unthinkable:

It turns out that the guns of the Second World War had barely fallen silent when Churchill was already devising Operation Unthinkable.

In 1949, the Americans were planning to bomb almost 300 of our cities. And only the appearance of the Russian nuclear bomb calmed the Americans down.

Russia's Foreign Minister Lavrov:

The West is famous for wanting to negotiate through ultimatums, putting forward demands that are humiliating for many countries and that smell of colonialism.

We need to remind people of the suffering that colonialism brought to our land.

Russia's Foreign Minister Lavrov:

Every country has its own history, and every country answers for its history.

If that history suits the English, Scots and Irish, for God’s sake, let them live as their gods have commanded them.

I’m not sure we have the same God.