Turkey's foreign minister said Ankara does not interpret Trump's earlier remark that "the ceasefire had ended" as meaning the ceasefire agreement is actually terminated; he said it was a response to recent incidents between the US and Iran.

China's Ministry of Ecology and Environment and the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) jointly released revised Standards for the Discharge of Water Pollutants from Medical Institutions to address incomplete coverage in the existing standard and strengthen support for treating emerging pollutants and for water ecological risk prevention.

The Polish zloty slid to a 19-month low versus the euro and a two-and-a-half-year low versus the Czech koruna after Polish central bank governor Glapiński signaled future rate cuts at a Thursday press conference. The central bank had left the policy rate unchanged at 3.75% a day earlier, as expected. In a note, Deutsche Bank’s Tatha Ghose said the move was surprising amid renewed U.S.-Iran tensions and that the notion Iran could force the central bank to raise rates has evaporated.