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In the space of three weeks, Vasily Klimov’s online shopping pick-up point in Moscow has gone from a healthy small business to a loss-making operation he is now desperately trying to sell. Klimov runs one of 98,000 pick-up points in Russia and neighbouring countries where ​customers collect goods ordered through Wildberries, the country’s leading e-commerce retailer. But since July 18, when Ukraine began targeting Wildberries warehouses across Russia in a wave of near-nightly drone attacks, his ‌business has taken a massive dive. Attacks on around 20 of the company’s sites have sparked major fires, destroyed entire warehouses of stock, and…

At least seven people were killed on Friday ‌when a student opened fire at a school in Thailand before turning the gun on himself, a national police official said. Students streamed out of the Debsirin Nonthaburi School, on the northwestern outskirts of Bangkok, as the wounded were loaded on to ambulances and teachers hugged each other and cried. In photos circulated by ​emergency workers, one person is seen lying down on a stretcher outside an ambulance, while another is attended to by ​a medic. One 18-year-old student told Reuters he initially thought there were firecrackers going off or someone banging…

Hundreds of thousands of people in southwestern Japan were ordered to evacuate and more than 500 flights cancelled on Friday as slow-moving Typhoon Dolphin approached the region to bring violent winds, heavy rain and high waves. The Category 1 typhoon had maximum sustained winds of 144 kph (89.5 mph) with gusts reaching 198 kph and was nearing a ⁠chain of islands between the Kyushu region and Okinawa prefecture, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said. Authorities issued evacuation orders for nearly 260,000 residents in Kagoshima and Okinawa prefectures, while Toyota suspended work at nine factories on Friday. Dolphin was expected to…

With President Donald Trump’s war against Iran now in its sixth month, this week’s flurry of threats and diplomacy has underscored the ever-tighter bind he finds himself in as he tries to extricate the U.S. from an unpopular conflict he originally claimed would last just weeks. Trump is caught between an emerging interim deal being negotiated by Iran and Oman that would give Tehran control over the Strait of Hormuz it never possessed before the war, or following through on his warnings of sharp escalation, risking a more prolonged crisis. The first option, analysts say, would grant Iran its biggest…

China’s foreign trade in yuan-denominated terms grew 19.2% year on year in July, data from the General Administration of Customs showed on Friday.

An exhibition featuring China’s efforts and achievements in promoting rural reading recently opened in Ottawa, Canada. The exhibition is an official event of the 40th World Congress of the International Board on Books for Young People, jointly hosted by the National Press and Publication Administration of China and the Chinese Board on Books for Young People.

China sent two AI-powered hyperspectral satellites into orbit on Wednesday morning, marking a step forward in bringing AI computing capabilities into space. The Smart Dragon-3 carrier rocket lifted off at 10:38 am on Wednesday from the offshore waters near Haiyang, east China’s Shandong Province, carrying the Oriental Smart Eye (OSE) hyperspectral satellites 01 and 02 into their planned orbits. The offshore launch mission was conducted by the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center. An illustration of satellites in space. /CMG From space sensing to space computing Unlike conventional remote-sensing satellites that send raw data back to Earth for processing, the two satellites…

China  urged Japan to face up to the concerns of the international community, earnestly fulfill its nuclear non-proliferation obligations under international law, truly repent for its historical crimes, learn the lesson of history, and step back from the wrong path. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian made the remarks in response to a question on the 81st anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima and recent developments related to Japan’s military and nuclear policy. Lin said the devastation and tragedies brought by nuclear weapons should never repeat themselves. At the same time, he stressed that the particular context of the…

Pakistan is set to embark on a major transformation of its policing system, with Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi announcing a series of reforms inspired by successful international law enforcement models, including the establishment of a China-style Law Enforcement Investigation Centre in Islamabad. The announcement came during a meeting with Assistant Superintendents of Police (ASPs) who recently returned after completing specialized training courses in China and Türkiye. The officers described the overseas programmes as an invaluable experience that significantly enhanced their professional capabilities and exposed them to modern policing practices, surveillance technologies, and contemporary approaches to maintaining law and order. Acknowledging…

The achievement was made by the Chinese-led international collaboration of the Beijing Spectrometer III (BESIII) experiment, the institute said on Thursday. In nature, atomic nuclei are composed of protons and neutrons, which are made up of quarks, with gluons mediating the strong interaction force between quarks. The standard model of particle physics holds that gluons can attract each other and bind together to form an entirely new kind of particle – the glueball. However, such a particle had not been discovered in any previous experiments. Relying on the BESIII experiment at the Beijing Electron Positron Collider, the research team discovered…