🇨🇳🇮🇩🇹🇼 | China's defense ministry says the Chinese and Indonesian navies will conduct a navigation exercise in waters east of Taiwan in mid-August — Xinhua

🇾🇪 | Yemen's transport ministry says the Houthis fired three ballistic missiles at a vessel carrying goods in Bab-el-Mandeb, killing four crew — statement

🇮🇷🇺🇸 | CENTCOM says an MH-60 navy helicopter "disabled" the steering gear of a cargo vessel that was "sailing toward an Iranian port" — X

🇺🇸 | Crude oil stockpiles in the American Strategic Petroleum Reserve have fallen to 298.7 million barrels last week, the lowest level since 1983 — CNBC

🇱🇧 | Lebanon's parliament voted in favor of abolishing the death penalty, making the country the first in the Arab world to do so — AP

🇺🇸🇾🇪 | The Pentagon told Congress that airstrikes conducted by the US against the Houthis in Yemen last year killed 153 civilians and injured 243 more — The Hill

🇱🇧 | Lebanon's parliament has passed a general amnesty law providing for exceptional reductions in the length of certain sentences — NNA

🇱🇾🇺🇳 | The UN mission in Libya says the ongoing clashes in the coastal city of Zawiya have caused "significant damage" to critical infrastructure — statement

🇨🇳 | Zhu Rongji, China's former premier who helped drive the country's market-oriented economic reforms, has died in Beijing at the age of 97 — SCMP

🇸🇾 | Amnesty International calls on Syria's government to abolish trials in absentia, end the use of the death penalty, and guarantee fair trials — statement

🇰🇼 | Kuwait's interior ministry says it has foiled a "terrorist plot" targeting a vital facility in the country and arrested a suspect linked to ISIS — statement

🇦🇲🇺🇦 | Ukraine's president congratulated Armenia's prime minister on his reappointment and discussed bilateral cooperation in a phone call — Armenpress

🇮🇶🇸🇦 | A high-level Iraqi security delegation will visit Saudi Arabia on Thursday to discuss a number of security issues — Al Arabiya

🇸🇦 | A very large crude carrier was spotted moored at Saudi Arabia's main oil export terminal in the Persian Gulf for the first time in nearly a month — Bloomberg

🇪🇬🇹🇷 | Turkey's foreign minister will travel to Cairo on August 13 and 14 to meet with Egypt's president and hold talks with senior officials — AA

🇺🇸 | Trump says Karoline Leavitt will step down as White House Press Secretary at the end of the month to spend more time with her family — Truth

🇨🇳🇯🇵 | China has approved the appointment of new Japanese acting consul general in Chongqing, about eight months after the post became vacant — Kyodo

🇸🇩 | Sudan's military engaged one-way attack UAVs launched by the RSF toward at least four major cities, army sources and witnesses say — Sudan Tribune

🇨🇴🇺🇸 | Hegseth says Colombia has requested that the Pentagon join its counternarcotics efforts, authorizing "joint military operations" — address

🇱🇾🇹🇷 | Turkey's foreign minister held talks in Benghazi with Khalifa Haftar, the commander of the LNA in eastern Libya, after visiting Tripoli — LANA