Vale CEO opposes potential export tax on critical minerals.

Aug 27 — China’s National Energy Administration held a meeting on accelerating tidal/current energy scale-up and instructed officials to improve policy measures, drive cost reduction and efficiency gains, and cultivate industry growth. The NEA called for stronger cross-party coordination to tackle current bottlenecks, strict implementation of planning, intensified R&D on core equipment, expedited delivery of key projects, expansion of "marine energy+" application scenarios, and accelerated push toward large-scale marine energy deployment.

UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said incidents of violence have eased compared with earlier this year, but southern Lebanon remains fragile.