Saudi outlet Hadas said television footage captured a large number of Iranian missiles being intercepted over southern Syria.

The French foreign minister said France will launch a nationwide procedure to ban products originating from Israeli settlements in the West Bank and will join 11 other countries in halting trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Chinese bourses mixed at midday: Shanghai Composite +0.24%, Shenzhen Composite -0.06%, ChiNext -0.34%, Beijing 50 +0.35%, STAR 50 -0.60%. Turnover across Shanghai and Shenzhen CNY1.21 trillion, down CNY46.5 billion from the prior session. Breadth weak with more than 3,500 stocks falling. Grain sector extended multi-day gains—COFCO Technology posted a second straight daily limit-up and several peers hit limit-up. Coal-mining stocks rallied intraday, with Yunmei Energy, Zhengzhou Coal & Power and Dayou Energy at limit-up. Ports and shipping strengthened; Nanjing Port, China Merchants Energy Shipping and Haitong Development hit limit-up. Military-equipment names rebounded; Yaxing Anchor Chain and Hunan Tianyan hit limit-up. Media and publishing plunged, with multiple stocks at or touching limit-down, and real estate names slid—broker I Love My Home fell about 9%.