🇹🇼🇨🇳⚡️- Taiwanese prosecutors have detained an Nvidia employee in Taipei for falsifying customs data to smuggle advanced AI servers to China via Japan. Tied to a $2.5B global crackdown involving Supermicro staff, this case marks the first local legal action against an internal Nvidia employee. The suspect faces charges of forgery and breach of trust. Nvidia is not accused of wrongdoing and has cut off support for the diverted chips, stating smuggling is a "nonstarter." The company is monitoring eight related probes.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Reports of explosions on Kish Island and in Bushehr.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Explosions reported in Borazjan and Bandar Abbas.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "U.S. forces began launching strikes against Iran at 8 p.m. ET today. The strikes are a powerful response to yesterday's attempted Iranian attacks on U.S. forces based in the Middle East." - U.S. CENTCOM on X.

🇺🇸🇸🇦🇮🇷⚡️- President Trump met with Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman today, a U.S. official told Axios.

The Saudi defense minister gave Trump a message from Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman about the war with Iran and escalation in the region.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "At 10 p.m. ET on July 29, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces successfully completed a heavy wave of strikes against Iran in response to yesterday's attempted missile attacks on U.S. forces.

CENTCOM assets struck dozens of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targets in Iran, including military command centers, missile and drone facilities, coastal surveillance and defense sites, and maritime capabilities. The strikes aimed to further diminish threats posed by Iran and its proxies to American forces, commercial shipping, and neighboring Gulf countries.

On July 28, IRGC forces launched multiple ballistic missiles from Iran in an attempted surprise attack on U.S. forces based in the Middle East. All Iranian missiles were successfully intercepted. " - US Central Command.

🇵🇱🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Notably or coincidentally, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian President, met with the Polish Prime Minister in Lublin, Poland, yesterday where the air raid sirens were activated over night.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Iranian ballistic missile launches targeting Jordan.

🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- Iran has acknowledged violating Oman's territorial sovereignty after preventing two oil tankers from transiting the Strait of Hormuz via Omani water-spaces.

According to Iranian statements, one of the tankers was also struck during the incident, resulting in a fire onboard.

🇸🇦🇾🇪⚡- "Saudi Arabia is seeking to build an international coalition to protect shipping ‌in the Red Sea from Houthi attacks," - Reuters.

🇵🇱🇷🇺⚡️- "During the Russian massive missile attack on western Ukraine, a violation of Polish airspace occurred. In connection with this, I have convened a coordination team with the participation of the Minister of Defense and the relevant services, which have been working on-site for many hours and are systematically providing me with information about all the circumstances of the incident." - Donald Tusk, Prime Minister of Poland.

🇫🇷⚡️- 70% of forest fires in France are voluntary criminal acts according to the Interior Minister.

🇷🇴🇷🇺⚡️- For the sixth day in a row, a RO-ALERT was issued in Romania due to Russian drones being detected near or at Romania's borders.

🇵🇱🇷🇺⚡️- Detailed photo of the impact crater from a Russian device in Targowisko, Poland. The alleged Russian missile is suspected to be a Kh-101.

🇨🇳🇮🇷⚡️- Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has denied reports that Beijing will supply Iran with 400 shoulder-fired air-defence missile launchers.

🇺🇸🫏⚡️- The most recent Emerson Poll suggests that DSA-aligned Abdul El-Sayed has a 15 point lead over his opponent Haley Stevens.

El-Sayed: 54%
Stevens: 39%
Uncommitted: 6%

🇺🇸🫏 - To note, there has been some criticism of Emerson’s poll from pollsters and commentators due to an over-polling of youth voters, as the median age of a Democratic primary voter in the state of Michigan is around 65 years old.