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The US is pressing Iran with sanctions rather than military force, while Iran's Revolutionary Guards say the Strait of Hormuz (a key oil shipping route) stays shut until sanctions end.
Iran says it will only agree to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway between Iran and Oman carrying much of the world's oil, if it gets war reparations, with other conditions unresolved.
Researchers found Kremlin-linked social media accounts spreading far-right framing of a migrant crossing at Ceuta, a Spanish enclave in North Africa, reaching hundreds of thousands of people; the EU is now pressing Meta and TikTok to monitor this more closely.
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.
A tanker reported explosions near the Strait of Hormuz just as Iran and Oman were close to a deal to reopen it; it's unclear if the blast was deliberate sabotage or unrelated.
Ukraine's president told NATO's chief a shortage of Patriot air-defense missiles is costing lives after a Russian strike on Kyiv, even as the European Union sent a first 1.4 billion euro payment funded by profits from frozen Russian assets.
A struck tanker burns in the Strait of Hormuz, Ukraine's drones hit Russian warehouses again, US states sue over tariffs, and the EU spares Spain from Schengen sanctions over Ceuta.
Iran's government said no talks with the United States are happening, despite President Trump's claim that negotiations over the Strait of Hormuz (a key oil shipping route) would begin Monday; Iran says it has only spoken with Oman, and it executed two more men accused of spying for Israel.
On 2 August, several countries bypassed joint decision-making to act on their own.
Russian missiles and drones struck Kyiv for the second time in two days, killing at least nine people.
Nearly 60,000 people crossed from Morocco into Spain's Ceuta enclave in a single day, with at least 19 drowning in the attempt.
A Russian cruise missile crossed into Poland and crashed near the Ukrainian border during a night attack that killed at least eight people in Ukraine, prompting Poland to scramble fighter jets.