Iran's foreign ministry said Bakai Hospital, a pediatric cancer treatment center, was evacuated overnight after a nearby U.S. strike. The ministry said 211 chemotherapy patients were forced to evacuate and condemned the attack as a 'cowardly war crime,' likening it to Israeli strikes on medical facilities.

Mirae Asset Securities analyst Young-gun Kim said SK Hynix's recent pullback presents an attractive opportunity to add exposure, attributing the weakness to an overly sharp cooling of optimism around Q2 results and the ADR listing. Mirae Asset cut its Q2 operating profit forecast by 12% but kept a buy rating and a KRW4,200,000 target. Kim added that memory chip spot prices continue to firm and order-backlog growth is unlikely to slow materially.

Kuwait said its armed forces intercepted 4 cruise missiles and 21 drones from Iran on Wednesday.