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Bahrain's Ministry of Defense: Air defense system successfully intercepted an Iranian attack.

The UAE Ministry of Defense stated that its air defense system is intercepting missiles and drones originating from Iran.

According to Iranian media Fars News, Arab sources reported that two explosions were heard in Kuwait.

July 12th - At the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC 2026), to be held in Shanghai from July 17th to 20th, Baidu AI will showcase its full suite of Intelligent Agents, comprehensively presenting the latest achievements of Intelligent Agents from technological upgrades and application development to industrial empowerment. Simultaneously, Baidu's "Chip-Cloud-Model-Agent" full-stack AI product matrix will also release new upgrades at WAIC, demonstrating Baidu AI's progress from underlying technological innovation to large-scale implementation in industrial scenarios and personal applications. At this year's WAIC, multiple Baidu Intelligent Agent products will be showcased and upgraded, further improving the Intelligent Agent toolchain, lowering the barriers to application development and use, and helping more developers quickly transform their ideas into products, evolving into super-individuals in the AI era.

Market news: Ukrainian drones attacked Russia's Sizlan oil refinery.

Conflict Status: 1. The Ukrainian military claims to have hit 21 Russian oil tankers overnight. 2. The Russian Ministry of Defense: Russian troops have taken control of Bachivsk in the Sumy region of Ukraine. 3. The mayor of Kyiv, Ukraine: Russian bombings have struck several areas of the capital, injuring six people. 4. According to RIA Novosti: Ukrainian forces launched 41 attacks on Russia's Belgorod region in one day, intercepting 47 drones. 5. The Ukrainian Foreign Minister: Russia attacked Kyiv with ballistic missiles and Sumy with guided-missile bombs. At least four people were killed and seven injured. Other Developments: 1. The Ukrainian army will establish a special command and joint rapid reaction force. 2. Russia claims to have contacted Turkey regarding the deployment of the S-400 air defense missile system. 3. A former senior Pentagon official: Kyiv will be unable to produce Patriot missiles for the next few years. 4. The Russian Ministry of Defense: The successful strikes confirm the Russian military's ability to strike any target throughout Ukraine. Zelenskyy has deployed almost all available Western missile defense systems to Kyiv. 5. Kremlin: Nuclear weapons will be used if there is any threat to the existence of the Russian state. Otherwise, they will not be used. Everything else is pure speculation.

July 12 - According to a US source on July 11, a senior US official stated that the US military successfully struck Iranian air surveillance radar, missile and drone storage facilities, missile and drone launch sites, maritime surveillance radar, and surface-to-air missile launchers that day.

According to Al Jazeera: The U.S. War Secretary said Iran is paying the price for its "wrong choice".

The UK Maritime Trade Organization has received a report of an incident that occurred 9 nautical miles east of Oman.

July 12th - On Saturday evening local time, despite Trump's refusal to sign it, the landmark bipartisan housing bill automatically went into effect, prompting celebrations from several members of the House and Senate. The Path to a Better Home Act aims to expand housing supply, increase homeownership rates, alleviate the housing shortage crisis in the United States, and improve housing affordability through measures such as relaxing regulations on residential construction and restricting Wall Street firms from acquiring ordinary homes.

The China Earthquake Networks Center officially measured a 3.8-magnitude earthquake in Arong Banner, Hulunbuir City, Inner Mongolia, at 05:09 on July 12, with a focal depth of 10 kilometers.

According to an Elabe poll for BFM, Marine Le Pen, the far-right National Rally candidate, is expected to receive 34% to 35.5% of the vote if the first round of voting is held this Sunday.

The National Press Club of America has called on the U.S. Department of Justice to immediately withdraw the subpoena for the New York Times reporter.

On July 12th, Meta announced that earlier this week, users could generate images in Meta AI by mentioning public Instagram accounts they wanted to reference. This feature, which allowed referencing public content by default, drew criticism from organizations such as the Screen Actors Guild, who argued it could infringe on portrait rights and pose criminal risks. Meta stated that its initial intention was to provide a practical creative tool and allow users to control whether their public content was allowed to be referenced in this way, but after receiving user feedback that the feature failed to achieve its intended effect, it has been removed.

July 12 - Jorge Rodríguez, president of the Venezuelan National Assembly, said at a press conference in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital, on July 11 that the two strong earthquakes that struck the country on June 24 have killed 4,333 people and injured 16,740. The latest official statistics from Venezuela show that 1,202 aftershocks have been recorded since the initial earthquakes.

Ukrainian President Zelensky called on Ukraine's diplomatic efforts to focus on urging allies to implement arms supply agreements more quickly.

July 12th - According to the Ministry of Education, this year marks the 20th anniversary of the student loan program based on the student's place of origin. Over the past two decades, my country's student loan program has cumulatively issued 620.7 billion yuan in loans, benefiting 68.21 million students.

July 12th - According to Middle East Eye, the United States is collaborating with Iraq and Syria on a plan to upgrade an aging oil pipeline connecting the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk to Baniyas on Syria's Mediterranean coast, enabling Iraq to bypass the Strait of Hormuz when exporting crude oil. The report, citing Iraqi and other regional officials, stated that an agreement to restore the approximately 800-kilometer-long pipeline is expected to be announced next week during Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Zaidi's meeting with Trump at the White House. The pipeline, which has been out of service for decades, is currently severely damaged. The report quoted a senior official as saying that the pipeline will likely require complete reconstruction, a project expected to take two to three years. Several American companies have already been recruited to participate in the project.