Forecasts show Typhoon Bawei and its moisture will produce heavy to locally extreme rain over the next three days across Beijing, Tianjin, Anhui, Jiangxi, Liaoning and Heilongjiang, with short‑duration torrential downpours and heightened risks of flash floods, geological hazards, small‑/medium‑river floods and urban waterlogging. Under the national flood-control emergency plan, the National Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters at 20:00 on July 11 upgraded flood emergency response from l

Ukraine's foreign minister said Russia is continuing to attack Ukrainian cities with all available weapons and that this is not 'pressure' or 'escalation'.

The US on Friday announced a new round of sanctions after Iran resumed attacks on international shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. The Treasury designated Dubai-based Iranian banker and businessman Ali Ansari — previously sanctioned by the UK — as a key financier of Iran’s supreme leader Mojtaba, accusing him of moving public wealth into overseas real estate and commercial assets to benefit himself, regime elites and the IRGC. The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control also designated major Iranian currency exchange houses, which it said transfer tens of billions of dollars annually on behalf of sanctioned Iranian banks and use multi-layered shell companies to conceal the government’s illicit financial activity.