Saudi communications and information technology minister Abdullah Alswaha said on the 30th at a press briefing ahead of the LEAP tech expo that China’s tech momentum is strong, its AI model launches routinely attract heavy international coverage, and Saudi Arabia values the partnership and is prepared to expand cooperation with Chinese technology firms.

Hamas condemned a raid on a detention block holding Palestinian women by far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, calling the action "moral depravity". In a statement, Hamas warned that continued transformation of occupation prisons into sites of arbitrary assault, humiliation, threats, torture and killing would pose serious danger and accused Israeli occupation leaders of using the suffering of Palestinian male and female prisoners as cheap election propaganda.

On Aug. 28, 2026 the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and four other ministries implemented a package of real-estate measures. CITIC Securities says the rollout should help align property-credit frameworks with a higher-quality development model, leaving scope for incremental bank real-estate lending and ushering in a high-certainty improvement in asset quality. Banks’ interim reports show optimistic net interest margins, stable asset quality, broadly positive but divergent revenue performance, and continued profit-recovery momentum. Some banks have raised dividend payout ratios, supporting shareholder returns and favoring long-term investors. Looking into Q3, CITIC expects core variables—margins and asset quality—to remain stable and full-year profit trends to stay positive, with macro narratives and longer-term drivers still intact, supporting continued absolute returns for the year.