South Korea's presidential office said a review of Seoul's role in the Strait of Hormuz is unrelated to U.S.-South Korea investment negotiations.

克里姆林宮發言人：正通過與印度的雙邊貿易逐步解決俄羅斯企業持有過多盧比的問題，交易將以國家貨幣進行。

Hungary's water authority monitoring data showed the Danube at Budapest plunged to a new historic low of 1 cm on the 8th (local time). The extreme low has severely disrupted river navigation, with exposed riverbed debris threatening traffic, and Hungary's only nuclear plant, Paks, briefly facing shutdown risk due to cooling-water constraints. Water specialists attribute the fall to extreme drought across the Danube basin; at the end of July the Budapest gauge read 27 cm, already below the prior record of 33 cm set on Oct. 25, 2018.