Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it struck a US Fifth Fleet observation tower in Bahrain.

U.S. Treasury said on Thursday that Japan, Thailand and eight other major trading partners remain on Washington’s monitoring list for potential unfair currency practices. In its semiannual report to Congress the department did not designate any trading partner as a currency manipulator.

Seoul High Court will hand down a Friday verdict in the long-running divorce of SK Hynix chairman Choi Tae-won and his ex-wife, the daughter of former president Roh Tae-woo. The court will decide how much of Choi’s roughly $5.5bn wealth must be divided; the outcome could affect his control of SK Group. The ex-wife initially sought 42.29% of Choi’s SK shareholding—an award that would threaten his control—before shifting to a cash claim. In 2024 a lower court ordered Choi to pay 1.38 trillion won (about $1.0bn), a record Korean divorce award, but the Supreme Court overturned that ruling on appeal, saying the lower court had improperly counted alleged illicit funds linked to Roh Tae-woo as contributing to the couple’s assets.