Breakfast News Recap: Middle East tensions flare as Trump moves on tariffs and markets rally on tech and metals
Violence across the Middle East intensified, with Houthi attacks killing at least 58 Yemeni government troops in Marib and Hadramawt and wounding 11 civilians in Saudi Arabia’s Najran Province, including a four year old child with second degree burns. 🔗 🔗In Syria, at least two people were killed and 13 wounded when a bomb exploded inside a minibus in Jaramana near Damascus, while a separate blast in the same area was also reported to have killed and wounded several people. 🔗 🔗Regional tensions also deepened around the Strait of Hormuz, where Iran accused Donald Trump of “theatre diplomacy on loop”... [Continue Reading]
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China and India Hold the 36th Meeting of Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on Border Affairs
On August 6, 2026, Director-General of the Department of Boundary and Ocean Affairs of the Foreign Ministry Hou Yanqi and Joint Secretary of the East Asia Division of the Indian Ministry of External Affairs Sujit Ghosh co-chaired the 36th Meeting of Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination(WMCC) on China-India Border Affairs in New Delhi. Representatives of government agencies for foreign affairs, home affairs, national defense and immigration affairs of the two countries attended the meeting. The two sides conducted constructive dialogue in a candid and friendly manner, had an in-depth exchange of views on further implementing the consensus reached during... [Continue Reading]

