Djibouti's navy commander told Al Jazeera that international shipping through the Bab al‑Mandeb Strait is not currently under direct threat.

Spot gold dipped to $4,320/oz, down 0.64% on the day.

Fars News reported a government spokesman and Energy Minister Abbas Aliabadi said “we got through this summer together,” but documents obtained by the outlet show widespread residential power outages continued on the same day. Aliabadi has pledged four times in the past month to end outages, yet residential supply remains interrupted and industrial firms report outages are intensifying. Yesterday’s outage extent was about 2.5 times the past month’s daily average.