海灣合作委員會祕書長：伊朗針對巴林、科威特和約旦基礎設施的襲擊行爲構成戰爭罪。

US officials said on the 17th (local time) Iran fired a ballistic missile at a US military base in Saudi Arabia, the first direct Iranian strike on Saudi territory in nearly four months. Saudi civil defense issued warnings for two locations on the 18th and later said the threat had passed.

July 18, 2026 — At the medical forum of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai's Xuhui West Bund, Shanghai issued the industry's first evaluation benchmark for AI diagnosis of difficult clinical cases covering 30 clinical specialties to assess large medical models' ability to handle complex cases. The city's medical AI evaluation framework was upgraded to version 5.0, adding an 'atomic skills' assessment intended to detect and correct AI-generated false information.