NEW: Iran’s security chief threatens to target US assets in the UAE and undersea cables if war resumes.

Maj. Gen. Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said Iran hasn’t yet added “America’s very valuable assets in the UAE and around the Strait of Hormuz” to its target bank — but would in a new conflict.

He specifically named cables, data centers, and AI facilities in the region, estimating their value at over $2 trillion:

If another confrontation occurs, many of them will be destroyed.

He added Iran is “fully prepared to showcase new capabilities” and would respond with a “much broader and more extensive plan.”

WATCH: Iranian girl from Tabriz field-strips and reassembles a Kalashnikov in 20 seconds.

French Presidential Candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon:

We need voting rights at 16. That has been in our program since the very beginning.

Voting rights at 16 will change everything, beginning with the obligation to respect young people.

32,290 businesses have closed in Argentina since Milei took office.

The closures have destroyed 437,611 formal jobs.

The cause: real wages crushed by 33.8% annual inflation, collapsing consumer demand that’s hit local commerce and SMEs hardest.

Economic activity fell 2.9% month-on-month and 1.4% year-on-year in July.

French Presidential Candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon:

A world is coming to an end. That world is the one that has ruled for 40 years: neoliberalism, which spread across the entire planet after using Pinochet's dictatorship as its laboratory.

WATCH: Ukrainian kamikaze drone caused a traffic accident, flew over a panicked anti-drone team, and then hit its target anyway.

Zelensky:

Today, the President of the United States announced that an energy ceasefire has been reached. This is good news for everyone. What matters is that it becomes a reality.

Ukraine is ready to refrain from striking Russian energy infrastructure, and we expect the same willingness from Russia, in accordance with the agreement announced by the President of the United States.

Zelensky:

We are awaiting clear details of the dialogue between America and Russia, and we expect Putin to fulfill what President Trump has said.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine have received all the relevant orders.

WATCH: Ukrainian soldier survives a Russian Molniya-2 kamikaze drone crashing ~1 meter away.

He is alive.

Zelensky:

In just this one week, the Russians have carried out more than 200 strikes against our electricity generation and transmission facilities in Ukraine.

NEW: Denmark will let teachers physically restrain and remove disruptive students from classrooms starting August 2027.

The centre-left government’s reform allows “holding a student, keeping them in place, or taking them to another room against their will” — ending a near-60-year effective ban on physical force in schools.

Zelensky:

Ukraine has proposed many de-escalation measures. Putin had only one response to all of them. It was his "nyet."

We very much hope that he will finally say something different to America, Ukraine and the entire world.

Ukraine wants peace. The question is whether Russia does.

France is going solo on its next-gen fighter — launching the “Super Rafale” F5 in December and a national SCAF prototype from 2027.

Four months after the Franco-German SCAF collapsed, Paris and Berlin have fully diverged.

Merz is being courted by UK PM Burnham to join the British-Japanese-Italian GCAP program, while France accelerates alone.

The F5 Rafale will feature AI integration, new optronics, a new engine, and a hypersonic missile carrying the latest nuclear deterrent.

In parallel, the air force is launching HypAIRion, an AI-driven collaborative combat flying initiative.

Source: Les Echos

NEW: Russia’s Duma energy committee says it knows nothing about any energy truce — and calls Trump’s announcement a market play.

First Deputy Chairman Ananskikh said:

We all know that Trump often says things to keep oil prices down. So-called verbal interventions.

I don’t know how true this is.

Former Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif:

Some people said, "Trump had already evacuated his bases."

Let me ask you: Which global power, when confronting a regional power, evacuates its own bases?

Former Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif:

Are the Americans really masochists? Do they want to hurt themselves? No.

They have a cognitive deficit.

Russia's Rosatom says 135 Russian staff are now back at Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant, up from ~20 who stayed after the February evacuation.

Rosatom evacuated 600+ staff when US-Israeli strikes on Iran began in late February 2026.

Former Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif:

After more than 200 years, we proved something that had been a common concern of all Iranian governments — whether Qajar, Pahlavi or the Islamic Republic.

The era of hit-and-run attacks is over.

We suffered enormous losses, but we proved that two nuclear powers can attack Iran and fail to achieve their objectives.

They strike us, and they get struck in return.