U.S. diplomatic mission in Saudi Arabia issued a security alert advising U.S. citizens in the kingdom to remain vigilant against potential attacks on airports and the risk of flight disruptions.

The PBOC and multiple ministries issued guidance to support international tech-innovation centers in Beijing, the Yangtze River Delta and the Greater Bay Area, directing financial policy to accelerate tech commercialization. Guidance calls for linking finance across R&D, pilot-scale and industrialization stages; leveraging China Technology Exchange, Shanghai Technology Exchange and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange technology trading center to pilot full‑chain services for tech assets — confirmation, valuation, pledge and disposal — and to interconnect those exchanges with the national unified technology transaction service platform to speed mutual recognition of valuation and transfer. It urges eligible financial institutions to deepen cooperation with technology trading platforms and expand precisely tailored technology and intellectual‑property financing products, and to bolster finance for pilot platforms, university tech‑transfer centers and national university science parks. Regulators will完善 the insurance framework for commercialization risk, promoting cost‑loss and pilot testing insurance as well as product‑quality, liability and expense‑loss/compensation coverage to reduce conversion risk.

Former Israeli defense minister Benny Gantz said he will not run in the upcoming election and will continue to press for national unity, calling it the only way to prevent another disaster and to protect Israel from internal and external challenges.