Tonight, Saudi Arabia issued an early warning over potential danger in Riyadh amid increased attacks by Yemen’s Houthis.

Saudi Civil Defence later said the danger had passed in Riyadh and al-Kharj.

The U.S. State Department has approved a possible $2.68 billion sale of air defense equipment and support to Ukraine.

The package includes extended-range air defense systems, mobile launchers, counter-drone radars, spare parts, software and technical support.

Ukraine would finance the purchase through European contributions and previously appropriated U.S. Foreign Military Financing.

Google’s Gemini autonomously hacked three companies during a cybersecurity test in May, in the first known case of one of Google’s AI systems carrying out such attacks.

Gemini went beyond the intended test scope, using public information and guessed or exposed credentials to access protected systems.

Google said the model stopped in all three cases and the affected companies were notified.

Similar testing incidents have also been disclosed by Meta, Anthropic and OpenAI.

Source: Reuters

Iranian authorities announced the execution of Hossein Pedaran, convicted of espionage and accused of providing Mossad with classified information on military and missile sites in Isfahan.

Authorities said he shared details about military locations and missile sites, and that encrypted devices and hidden recording equipment were found at his home.

Iran said he re-established contact with Mossad via Telegram after the start of the 12-day war before his arrest.

Source: Tasnim

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi:

1.5mn Algerians were slaughtered by France in their War of Independence.

Less than 1/10 of them have been recorded by Paris, which refuses any apology for its colonial crimes.

A 2026 Annenberg Constitution Day Civics Survey found that 35% of U.S. adults could not name all three branches of government — executive, legislative and judicial.

While 65% identified all three branches, others named only one or two or none.

Americans also struggled with First Amendment knowledge, with only 9% able to name all five protected rights and 24% unable to name any.

The survey included 1,034 U.S. adults from Aug. 6–9, with a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points.

Source: Axios

Lukashenko on Iran:

Iran. Why did the Americans have to fight against the successors of the Persians? They have never kneeled before anyone.

Don’t Americans know this history? They do. They say that back in the 1970s Iranians trashed the embassy of the United States of America.

So this is the response. Well then, if during World War II nearly 30 million people of ours died, should we once again rush to the West and tear apart Germans once again? No.

They have decided to start a war. But it was not the reason. Iran’s riches are. A battle is in progress now.

Lukashenko:

They say that I am the last dictator, the one before the last dictator in Europe. Dictator and dictator.

Well, Putin and I often make jokes about which one of us is the bigger dictator.

Lukashenko:

In 1939, without any wars, the Red Army "liberated" Western Belarus and Western Ukraine.

The Soviet troops reclaimed what belonged to Belarusians and to the huge country where we lived.

We reclaimed that. We did not capture Polish lands.

Anduril founder Palmer Luckey on China:

You can steal a blueprint and order a million copies and then be protected by their government.

American patents are nothing but Chinese instruction manuals.

They will take our designs, often build copies of them, sell them to the same people that we're trying to sell.

Lukashenko:

They tried to tear us away from Russia in 2020.

Had they succeeded, we would have faced the very same situation that is currently unfolding in Ukraine.

What happened in Ukraine, a rich, powerful, and strong country, would have happened to us as well.

Anduril founder Palmer Luckey:

Deterrence for Taiwan cannot depend on convincing party leadership that they are physically incapable of getting forces into Taiwan.

The real objective is to convince Beijing that getting here is not victory.

What looks like the end of an invasion plan from the outside is actually the beginning of a fight that could continue for years or even decades.

Taiwan's job is to force Beijing into exactly that calculation, into understanding that the cost of winning makes it impossible to win.

Anduril founder Palmer Luckey on China:

This is a war that may be winnable, but it is not worth winning.

The CCP has spent years practicing how to win without fighting because they are so afraid of what the cost would be.

The answer to their dilemma is to make sure there's no version of their plans militarily, economically, socially, culturally in which they can gain an easy victory.

Anduril founder Palmer Luckey:

This is not a hopeless fight. Nobody should believe that.

Everyone who says that has a reason to believe it. Many of them are funded by your adversaries.

If they weren't worried about your ability to put up a fight, they wouldn't be taking over Hollywood and putting movies about how they're impossibly powerful.

Lukashenko to Belarusian youth:

They say, "Lukashenko is hanging on to power with all his might."

I am already as fed up with this power as possible.

There is only one question: are you capable of taking the country today and keeping it? If you are, do it tomorrow.

Honestly speaking, I cannot give a positive answer to this question for now. Don’t take offense.

Lukashenko:

Before 1939, our people lived in constant fear of another raid by the Polish political police.

That’s exactly why people in our western regions welcomed the Red Army with flowers, seeing them as true liberators.

Lukashenko:

We Belarusians are known as potato people, but potato production has been decreasing little by little.

We need to produce more potatoes in Belarus.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Iran:

At some point, I do believe we’re going to see another uprising in Iran.

And perhaps there will be a way that the people can be better prepared, armed, and be able to truly resist what will be an incredibly even more weakened Iranian government.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Lebanon:

The Lebanese realized Israel does not want to annex one meter of Lebanese property.

They don’t want to be there. They want to go home. They’re reservists. They’re exhausted. They want to be back with their families.

But they’re not going to abandon the people in the northern part of Israel to continued rocket, missile and drone attacks.

They’re going to stay until the LAF is strong enough to be the securing force.