Major news roundup this yesterday and this morning (2026-07-19)

Domestic news:
1. The total box office for the 2026 summer film season has exceeded 4 billion yuan; July’s box office has exceeded 2.5 billion yuan.
2. China Academy of Information and Communications Technology: China’s daily average Token call volume has grown by more than a thousand times.
3. Alibaba releases an enterprise-grade AI application creation platform, the Miaowu Team Edition.
4. Ministry of Foreign Affairs responds to the UK steel nationalization issue: paying close attention, and taking rights-protection measures if necessary.
5. The National Development and Reform Commission allocates 30 million yuan to support post-disaster emergency recovery for the Chongqing hillside collapse.
6. SASAC under the State Council: SOEs and central SOEs must continue to tackle original technologies such as fundamental algorithms, physical AI, intelligent computing chips, and quantum communications.
International news:
1. The President of Mexico will travel to the U.S. to watch the World Cup final.
2. A major data breach occurred at India’s largest nuclear power plant.
3. Iraq is reportedly using Syria to bypass the Strait of Hormuz for oil exports.
4. Germany’s interior minister revealed: Germany will raise its security alert level to the “high threat level.”
5. According to CNN: a nuclear deal that would allow Saudi Arabia to conduct civilian uranium enrichment remains undecided and awaits approval from the Trump administration.
6. Middle East situation—
① Iranian forces attacked power and seawater desalination facilities in the Jask area of Hormozgan province.
② A Kuwaiti seawater desalination and power generation facility was damaged in the attack.
③ Israel’s military says the U.S. will increase the number of refueling aircraft deployed to Israeli Air Force bases.
④ Iran says it has targeted U.S. military targets located in Kuwait, Bahrain, and Jordan.
⑤ Iran’s deputy foreign minister says Iran has stopped fulfilling the Iran–U.S. memorandum of understanding. Trump: “I don’t care at all.”
⑥ Iranian media: an Iranian official warns that if the U.S. launches attacks on Iran’s infrastructure, airports in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, as well as the ports of Fujairah and Jebel Ali, should be prepared for evacuation.
⑦ The U.S. military says two U.S. soldiers died in an Iranian attack in Jordan, and one is missing.