🇨🇳🇮🇷🇺🇸⚡️ — China has rejected U.S. threats of secondary sanctions over its trade with Iran, calling such measures illegal and warning that Beijing will take “all necessary measures” to protect its interests.

China’s Foreign Ministry said its cooperation with Iran is conducted under international law and should not be disrupted.

Beijing also warned that economic wars and “maximum pressure” would only increase tensions, risk wider spillover, and damage the global economic and financial system.

🇸🇦🛢 Multiple Saudi VLCCs are leaving the Fujairah area where they transferred their oil to other ships, going back to the Red Sea but using the longer route around the Cape of Good Hope to avoid being hit by Houthi/Ansarallah missiles in the Bab el-Mandeb

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🇾🇪⚔️🇾🇪 Latest News on the Clashes in Southern and Southwestern Yemen – August 25

🟡 Ongoing clashes and exchanges of fire are taking place on the Al-Fakher front in Al-Dhale’e Governorate, the eastern front of Taiz city, and north of the town of Hays in the southern part of Al-Hudaydah Governorate.

🟡 On the Taiz front, the artillery units of the Yemeni Armed Forces launched heavy shelling against the positions of Tariq Saleh’s forces in the areas of Al-Ashmalah, Al-Qahifah, and Al-Kuwayhah, located within the Muqbanah District. Fire exchanges are also continuing on the eastern front of Taiz city and on the Humayr front along the western axis of Taiz, with both sides maintaining clashes until the evening of the previous day. No changes have occurred along the conflict lines, and no reports have been issued regarding casualties or material losses on either side.

🟡 On the Al-Dhale’e front, the Amaliqah forces, commanded by Hamdi Shukri, are currently moving military equipment toward the Al-Fakher and Moris axes. It is anticipated that the intensity of confrontations on this axis will escalate further in the coming days. The Amaliqah have also issued threats to recapture the districts currently under the control of the Sana’a government.

🟡 On the Hays front, the Yemeni Armed Forces carried out an airstrike targeting the base of the Second Al-Zaraniq Brigade, affiliated with Tariq Saleh, in the Dubas area. The strike was executed using suicide drones or Rajum hexacopters, resulting in a massive explosion in the area.

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🇦🇲🤝🇪🇺 Armenian prime-minister, Nikol Pashinyan announced that his country will formally apply for EU membership and will organise in the future a referendum for such an endeavour.

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🚀 🇺🇸 🏗 Starbase, Louisiana will be built to support thousands of Starship flights a year with missions launching to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, and beyond.

📝 Eric Berger: Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry says SpaceX is committing $100 billion to develop Starship factories and launch pads in coastal areas of the state. Company seeks to replicate Starbase in Texas "on a larger scale."

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