What to know

• Oil continued its rise on Friday (August 7, 2026) amid further concerns around the opening of ​the Strait of HormuzS1
• Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis killed at least 58 government troops in missile and drone attacks on Thursday, a military source said, in one of the deadliest days of the country's civil war in four years. The attacks come as Yemen is increasingly drawn into the U...S2