A new Italian study finds Russian, Chinese and Iranian influence campaigns running side by side against Italy's institutions, each exploiting the same openings.
False social media posts claiming Spain's Ceuta enclave had opened its border helped push around 72,000 people to cross from Morocco on 30-31 July, and at least 80 people died.
After migrants crossed in large numbers into Ceuta, a Spanish territory in North Africa, Spain and Italy began checking IDs at their shared borders again, straining the EU's normally open-border area known as Schengen.
Russian missiles hit the region around Kyiv, Ukraine's capital, overnight, killing three people including a child and injuring several others, local officials said.
As Typhoon Dolphin approached, China ordered ships to follow its traffic controls in the Taiwan Strait, the narrow sea passage between China and Taiwan.
The United Nations Security Council issued a joint statement condemning missile attacks by Yemen's Houthi movement, an armed group backed by Iran, on Saudi Arabia.
Spain and Italy have started checking travelers crossing between their two countries, each retaliating after the other imposed checks first.
Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan have signed a new pact promising to defend one another if attacked, as unrest spreads across the Middle East.
Warnings of a possible Russian test of NATO, new EU sanctions, a Graham-named sanctions bill in the Senate, Taiwan's biggest war games yet, and a new EU satellite contract.
In the same week, Luxembourg looked at buying a European air-defence system, Australia became the first foreign buyer of a new US air-to-air missile, India test-fired a nuclear-capable missile, and analysts noted Taiwan's missile stockpile still has gaps.
The US Senate passed a broad sanctions bill targeting Russia's energy industry and Iran, after the measure had been stuck in Congress for months.
The European Union has added five more people to its sanctions list over Russia's renewed missile and drone strikes on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities.