NEW: Thailand summoned Israeli Ambassador over badly behaving Israeli tourists.

Foreign Minister Sihasak said he had a "frank discussion" about Israeli nationals using nominees to dodge foreign ownership rules and tourists causing friction in Koh Phangan, Koh Samui, and Phuket.

He said:

Tourism is important to us, but it isn't just about income — it's also about the dignity of Thailand.

Israeli arrivals surged 46% last year to 410,000.

Thailand is halving visa-free stays to 30 days from September 15.

An Israeli tourist was already deported from Koh Samui.

A nationalist rally is planned outside the Israeli embassy on Thursday.

France, UK, and Canada Lead 12-Nation Push Against Israeli Settlement Trade

France, the UK, Canada, and nine other countries are moving toward national restrictions on goods from Israeli settlements, bypassing an EU-wide deadlock.

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Germany's Merkel on Russia:

Russia remains a country with which we must try to reopen dialogue.

WATCH: A Chinese military attaché passed a note to the Philippine Defense Secretary while he was speaking at a Seoul defense forum — restating that the 2016 South China Sea ruling is "illegal, null and void."

Teodoro read it aloud to the room, then responded line by line.

On "no binding force": "Because you don't want to be subjected to UNCLOS."

On China not accepting the ruling: "Of course, because you lost."

In Filipino he added: "Show a little decency, have a little shame."

The audience applauded.

He called it "actual coercion, bullying and aggression" and kept the note as a "memento."

Germany's Merkel on Russia:

We had a long history of gas deliveries going back to the Cold War.

Russia had proved to be a reliable partner, and there had always been tensions with the Americans over this issue.

Nord Stream 2 was never put into operation, and Nord Stream 1 was later shut down. The gas was cheaper, so that was an economic factor.

If we had not done that, we would already have had to buy more expensive gas from 2014. Instead, we only had to do so in 2022.

Economic advantage, difficult suppliers, and no American gas—that made the decision to use Russian gas easier for me.

Germany's Merkel on Trump:

Trump does not understand win-win situations. In alliances, he does not recognize that everyone can benefit.

For him, there is always a winner and someone who loses.

He always feels that he is being disadvantaged and wants to come out as the winner.

Alliances such as the European Union, where everyone can benefit, are something unfamiliar to him.

An AI-designed drug built for lung fibrosis appears to also reverse markers of biological aging.

Insilico Medicine's rentosertib — where AI identified the target protein and designed the molecule in 18 months — showed treated patients looking 3–6 years biologically younger across six independent aging clocks after 12 weeks.

The trial was small (42 patients), short, and only in people with lung disease.

Treating sick lungs could itself shift the clocks without being a general anti-aging effect.

A cardiologist told the NYT the missing experiment is a trial in healthy people.

Germany's Merkel:

As a European, I would never call the relationship with America into question.

I do not believe America will do so in the medium term either.

UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband:

What the Netanyahu government is doing in Gaza is a stain on the conscience of the world, and there is increasing evidence war crimes appear to have been committed.

UK Accuses Israeli Settlers of Ethnic Cleansing, Imposes Sweeping Sanctions

Ed Miliband accused Israeli settler terrorists of ethnically cleansing Palestinians in the occupied West Bank as he blamed the Israeli government for failing to intervene.

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Russia's Foreign Minister Lavrov:

A wounded beast becomes much more dangerous.

Europe is a very badly wounded beast.

That is why there is even less stability now than there was in the 1970s.

Russia's Foreign Minister Lavrov:

The West miscalculated. It is impossible to artificially preserve its dominance, which lasted for more than 500 years.

It has to defend its position in fair competition—and throughout its entire history, it has never known how to do that.

The West has never lived, survived, or prospered honestly without doing so at the expense of others.

Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli:

Britain’s government today is very, very unstable. The French government, by the way, which is also very hostile toward Israel under Macron, is very unstable as well.

The streets are not with them, and they are expected to suffer defeat.

Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli:

We need to strengthen the "settlements" in the West Bank, and whoever doesn’t like it, too bad.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis:

Greece threatens no one. We seek stability through good-neighborly relations based on international law.

But stability does not mean making concessions, nor does it mean tolerating faits accomplis.

Therefore, Greece is not afraid to defend its positions with confidence, and it is not afraid of dialogue.

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius:

This Germany is the best Germany that has ever existed in history.

It is our common task to make sure that it stays that way.

A UN commission warned that Israel’s military operations in southern Syria—including raids, incursions and the detention of civilians—could amount to war crimes.

The probe said it had identified 49 Syrians detained and alleged that Israel’s expanding military presence violates Syrian sovereignty and the 1974 disengagement agreement.

Source: Reuters

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius:

I would rather live in a world where there were no defense ministers and no armed forces at all.

Germany had armed forces for 20 years that were essentially there for international crisis interventions and missions.

But that world is over, because it is clear that there is a new threat.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee:

You know, there are still more Palestinian attacks on Israelis than there are Israelis on Palestinians.

NEW: Putin and Trump held a phone call.

Kremlin:

Putin and Trump exchanged views on the results of Witkoff and Kushner’s visits to Moscow and Kyiv.

Kremlin:

Putin emphasized in his conversation with Trump that Russia has no hostile intentions toward Europe whatsoever.