The Brief

The United States launched another wave of strikes on Iran, including attacks near the southern port city of Sirik that Iran said killed at least four people at a wedding party. U.S. forces said they were hitting targets tied to Iran's Revolutionary Guard after attempted attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz and on American forces, the second round of U.S. attacks in three days as the roughly six-month war resumed after weeks of relative calm.

Iranian state media said retaliatory missile and drone attacks on U.S. targets had begun, and Jordan said it intercepted Iranian missiles crossing its airspace. President Trump warned Iran against retaliating and vowed further strikes, while the U.N. nuclear watchdog urged Tehran to restore access to its nuclear sites over proliferation concerns. Earlier strikes on Iran's Larak Island killed two people, Iranian officials said, and Iran had fired on U.S. bases in Jordan and the United Arab Emirates. Brent crude rose above $92 a barrel.

The number of people killed by catastrophic flash floods along the Nepal-China border has surpassed 1,000, Nepali authorities said, with around 4,000 people still missing. Rescue teams are racing to reach at least 900 workers missing from 12 hydropower projects, many feared trapped in mud-filled tunnels.

Chinese state media put the official death toll in Tibet at 16. With cremation and burial rites overwhelmed by the scale of the disaster, Nepal has begun interring flood victims in mass graves. More than 100 Indian pilgrims are among the missing at a key trade crossing, and Nepali officials said they had made contact with a U.S. national who had been among the missing.

German officials said Russia was behind an attempted drone attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport, where a drone carrying an explosive device was discovered on Aug. 4 near Ukrainian cargo planes.

The accusation comes as European governments report a rise in sabotage attempts they attribute to Moscow, part of what Western officials describe as a campaign to undermine support for Ukraine and destabilize European nations.

A Russian drone and missile barrage killed at least 12 people in Kyiv, Ukrainian officials said, as strikes on the capital and the surrounding region continued for a sixth consecutive day. Eight people were killed in the city itself and four others in the surrounding region, authorities said, and repeated attacks on warehouses have left some supermarket shelves empty.

Fresh strikes hit railway workers and injured about 20 people, including two children, in the capital and wider region, Ukrainian officials said. The escalation came as European Union defence ministers met in Ireland to discuss shortfalls in Ukraine's air defences.

Israeli air strikes on Gaza City killed at least five people, including children, according to local reports, in what an Al Jazeera correspondent described as nonstop bombardment. Israel's military said the strikes followed the discovery of a ground raid by Israeli special forces and Israeli-backed Palestinian fighters.

Israel said it captured a senior Hamas member during the operation. Defence Minister Israel Katz said the strikes were carried out to protect Israeli troops.

The White House filled in some details of President Trump's arrangement to take a stake in more than 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil reserves, saying the plan will run through a private company, North American Blue Energy Partners, in a joint venture with the U.S. The company is owned by Venezuelan businessman Alejandro Betancourt.

Venezuela's National Assembly voted to back the deal even though no terms had been made public, and the U.S. energy secretary is due to travel to Caracas to unveil it. Analysts said the arrangement puzzled them, and one former envoy called it a colonialist "fever dream"; many Venezuelans reacted with anger.