China's Xi Jinping at the BRICS summit in New Delhi offered China's help bringing peace to the Middle East, with Iran's president sitting in the room.

China has backed Pakistan/Qatar mediation that produced a June ceasefire MoU, but implementation has collapsed and fighting resumed.

Beijing is Iran's biggest oil customer and needs Hormuz open, but it hasn't taken a formal mediator role yet.

Houthi fighters somewhere near Bab el-Mandeb:

Eritrea is opposite us... and Djibouti. This strait was under American rule, under international guardianship, under American agendas.

Now, it is in the hands of Yemen. What does that mean? It means safety for the whole world.

Death to America! Death to Israel!

A curse upon the Jews! Victory to Islam!

Xi Jinping:

China and India are the two countries with the largest population in the world and are important members of the Global South and play an important role.

The two sides will work together to promote high-quality cooperation and to promote a peaceful and stable world and to provide more positive energy.

WATCH: Myanmar resistance launched fiber-optic FPV drones at Russian Yak-130 jets parked at Tada-U Air Base near Mandalay, piloted by female PDF operators.

The drones evaded radio jamming but footage shows them failing to get past protective netting draped over the hangars, making three close runs without threading the gaps.

Resistance claims hits on four jets; junta says nothing was damaged.

Palestinian flags fill Dublin streets as Trump visits Ireland.

Four leaders meet at the BRICS Summit in New Delhi.

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Iran's FM Spox. Esmail Baghaei:

The meeting on Monday in Oman will focus on outlining the MoU between Iran and Oman to determine temporary and safe maritime routes.

However, reaching this regional understanding will not necessarily mean establishing complete and lasting security in this strategic waterway.

A lasting return of security is only possible through an end to US destabilizing actions, the lifting of the maritime siege, and a halt to military interventions.

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir:

In Gaza and the West Bank, we will "encourage" voluntary emigration.

French Presidential Candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon:

I do not hope that the youth of my country dreams of becoming billionaires, because I believe it is immoral to be a billionaire.

How can you not understand that the accumulation of wealth you make happens at the expense of others?

You don’t need to be a genius to understand it.

French Presidential Candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon:

The French people are not racist at heart. They do not want to remove people’s veils.

They are concerned with health problems, wage problems, and daily struggles.

Everyone knows these debates are used to spread poison and divide people through religion.

Since when has a headscarf, by itself, become a symbol?

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Iran:

It is not impossible that when the Iranian regime is backed into a corner economically, it will escalate militarily. We are prepared for this — both for attack and defense.

And if that happens, we will destroy all of its energy infrastructure, both internally and externally, and this will collapse the country.

I hope it will also put the citizens there in a situation where they have nothing to lose — nothing to eat, nothing to drink, nothing — and then they will rise up and overthrow the regime.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich:

Today, Palestinians in Gaza still hold on to the hope that somehow everything will be rebuilt and that they will return.

They need to understand that there is nothing left to look for there.

Türkiye strongly condemned drone attacks launched from Iraqi territory against Saudi Arabia, reaffirming its support for Saudi Arabia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Q: If Americans invite Putin to Miami for G20, I will come. Are you willing to come?

Zelensky: Yes, of course.

First robot-vs-robot naval battle.

A Ukrainian Sargan-3000 USV armed with a Norwegian 12.7mm remote turret hunted down and sank a Russian USV in the Black Sea.

Ukraine calls it the first recorded combat between two unmanned boats.

Zelensky:

Ukraine now is much stronger than last year on the battlefield.

Russia loses, you know, 30,000-plus people per month.

And this is a big price for such slow moves on the battlefield. So that's why we think that we have now a good position for negotiations.

Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, says within 6–12 months an AI swarm could be capable of taking over the entire internet with a persistent botnet — "potentially causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damage."

He's calling for pacing AI development.

Russia has been drone-striking gas stations inside Kyiv, hitting them district by district during morning rush hour, including a double-tap strike that hit first responders 15 minutes after the initial attack.

A target list of ~20 Kyiv stations is circulating.

This is an expansion of a months-long campaign that's already hit 200–300 stations nationwide, mostly near the front lines.

Yemen's Houthis:

Saudi enemy air force carried out 129 airstrikes over the past 48 hours across the provinces of Taiz, Marib, Hodeidah, Al-Jawf, Saada, Amran, and Hajjah.

These strikes were carried out by F-15 and Typhoon aircraft launched from the Saudi enemy's military bases in Khamis Mushait and Taif.

These aggressions against our people will not go without response and punishment, God willing.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz was aggressively booed in Austin, Texas, with the crowd chanting: “Ted, you suck!”

Yemen's Houthis Spokesperson:

If tensions escalate, we can target oil infrastructure to completely halt even the limited amount of Saudi oil exports through the Suez Canal.