Overnight reports: Iran conducts military exercises, Kishida to resign amid pressure

It happened while you were sleeping. Here’s what the world’s news agencies reported from Tuesday to Wednesday night.

• Iran announced that it organized sudden military exercises on the Caspian Sea. Tehran said the public should not worry about the sounds of explosions. According to the semi-official Mehr news agency, the exercises organized by the Navy took place on the Caspian Sea in Gilan province in the north of the country. The news reported that the exercises were organized to increase the defensive readiness of the Naval Forces. From August 11 to 13, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps also conducted a three-day training in the country's west.

• Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida intends to step down next month, succumbing to pressure from his party, demanding an end to his unpopular leadership. It's a real earthquake at the top of the government and the Liberal Democratic Party, which controls both houses of parliament. According to Japanese media, including the national television station NHK and Kyodo News, Kishida has already informed his associates about this.

• A fire broke out in warehouses near Bucharest. Since Tuesday evening, 20 fire brigade units have been fighting a large-scale fire in Afumati, near Bucharest, the capital of Romania. According to Romanian civil defence, despite the quick intervention of the fire brigade, one of the warehouses engulfed by fire was almost completely burned down, and most of its structure collapsed.

• A New York judge has ruled that independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will not appear on state ballots in November after falsely claiming in his election documents that he lived at a friend's house in New York, the "Washington Post" reported on Monday. Although Kennedy claimed he lived in an additional bedroom at his friend's house in Katonah, New York, he spent only one night there last month after a lawsuit challenged his resident status, wrote Albany County Supreme Court Judge Christina Ryba in her decision.

• Several hundred Russian conscripts who refused to fight in the defence of the Kursk region were forcibly sent to the area of ongoing operations. The soldiers were given weapons and were transported by air to Kursk.