TASNIM News, citing Israeli broadcaster Kan, reported Riyadh pressed the U.S. for military action against Yemen's Houthi rebels, but Washington rejected the request.

據冰島國家廣播公司：冰島投票反對舉行加入歐盟談判。

China held the 2026 National Social Science Fund annual project review in Beijing; Politburo member and head of the Central Propaganda Department Li Shulei attended and spoke. The meeting ordered priority on systematic theoretical and philosophical study of the Party’s innovation theory and faster construction of an autonomous Chinese philosophy and social-science knowledge system to tackle major theoretical and practical issues of Chinese-style modernization. It called for systemic reform of the National Social Science Fund and research management—sharpening academic evaluation, promoting rigorous academic conduct, reorganising funding and institutions to focus on solving real problems—and urged creative transformation of traditional Chinese culture and wider deployment of digital‑intelligence tools to empower social-science research.