Al Jazeera reports Syria's president said Syria is seeking a security agreement with Israel and seeks multilateral participation.

July saw rapid margin‑financing outflows, but regulatory support and onshore incremental funds have helped stabilise short‑term liquidity. External pressures — Middle East tensions lifting oil, higher US Treasury yields and renewed Fed hike expectations — have dented global risk appetite. CITIC says the AI sector’s mid‑to‑long‑term thesis remains intact: KimiK3 is reshaping the performance/cost narrative, expanding workflow coverage and accelerating vertical penetration, and Google’s counter‑trend capex increase supports a compute supply‑demand mismatch. Near term the market is likely to trade a W‑shaped bottom; investors should wait for external uncertainty to clear while rebalancing into low‑base areas with solid fundamentals and valuation‑recovery potential. Key focus: AI (upstream materials/equipment, domestic compute), midstream export manufacturing chains (new energy, machinery, shipbuilding), upstream resources and defensive dividend plays.

Chernihiv city military-civil administration said on July 26 local time a supermarket was struck by a Russian military drone. President Zelenskiy said the attack killed 2 and injured 13. Russia has not responded.