Russia and Ukraine each launched record drone attacks overnight: Russia faced its biggest barrage yet on Moscow, while Ukraine sent up to 800 drones into Russia, killing at least six people.
The United States is considering sanctions against a sitting judge on Brazil's Supreme Court, according to a Financial Times report picked up within the same hour by Reuters and other news outlets.
This week, officials in Germany, Italy, Australia, India and Iran each said their country was already under attack, calling it 'hybrid war' rather than war — a mix of drone incursions, cut undersea cables and cyberattacks that stops short of open warfare.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards say the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway ships use to move oil out of the Gulf, stays closed until US sanctions are lifted and war damages are paid.
Trade talks between the United States and Canada have stalled, and Washington is threatening tariffs of up to 50% on Canadian goods.
The EU Council renewed its sanctions on Iran, which were imposed over Iran sending attack drones and missile parts to Russia for the war in Ukraine.
Ukraine sent 600 to 800 drones into Russia overnight in one of the war's biggest such attacks, killing at least six people, Russian officials said.
Ukrainian drones set fire to a warehouse run by Wildberries, Russia's biggest online retailer, in Koledino, about 25 miles from Moscow.
A NATO fighter jet shot down a Russian drone after it crossed into Romanian airspace, marking a direct military engagement on NATO territory.
President Trump says he will declare the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow sea passage that carries about a fifth of the world's oil, as United States territory.
Ukrainian arms makers have warned their own government that slow, insufficient ordering by the state, not Russian attacks, could be what stops weapons reaching the front next, and they have proposed fixes.
On 29 August, Iceland holds a referendum on whether to resume talks to join the European Union, which is a group of 27 European countries with shared laws and trade rules.