Putin said the state should participate in restoring storage facilities.

China's Cyberspace Administration, MIIT and Ministry of Public Security said the 2026 personal information protection campaign has produced interim results: authorities inspected data-collection/use in more than 20,000 apps and SDKs, pressed 4,000+ to complete compliance fixes, publicly named 1,100+ apps/SDKs for violations and removed or penalized about 400. Targeting unclear data use for advertising and user profiling and lack of personalized-ad opt-outs, regulators audited products from 1,000+ firms and ordered remediation.

U.S. EIA net finished petroleum product imports for the week to Aug. 14: -258,000 b/d, prior 206,000 b/d.