Putin said Russia will deliver a mirror response several times more forceful to attacks on Russia.

On July 13 Iran Customs issued a directive lifting the emergency-period export ban on chemicals, polymers and petrochemical products; export controls remain in place for industrial tallow and sulfonic acid.

China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) and National Healthcare Security Administration (NHSA) formed a joint inspection team to screen drug traceability-code clues and inspect medical institutions and pharmaceutical wholesalers in selected cities in Inner Mongolia and Shanxi. The inspections focus on prominent medical-insurance fund management issues and key links in drug distribution, using drug traceability anomalies and clues of duplicate medical-insurance claims as entry points. Agencies inspected certain hospitals and pharmacies and said discovered violations will be strictly dealt with according to law.