- A senior commander in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps has threatened to seize a British oil tanker in retaliation for the capture of an Iranian supertanker in Gibraltar.
- Nearly 1,000 Uighurs have taken to the streets in the Turkish city of Istanbul to protest China’s suppression of ethnic minorities.
- A group of ancient burial mounds in the western Japanese prefecture of Osaka is expected to be added to the World Heritage list at a UNESCO committee meeting on Saturday.