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An opening ceremony was held on Thursday for a new border bridge across the Yalu River, connecting China and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).

A Chinese envoy to the UN on Wednesday called for efforts to break the political deadlock in Libya as soon as possible. The agreement reached through the UN-facilitated “4+4” smaller convening marked important progress in implementing the political roadmap in Libya. China hopes that the agreement will help unify Libya’s state institutions and lay the foundation for national elections and the completion of the political transition, said Sun Lei, China’s deputy permanent representative to the United Nations. At the same time, he said, whether the agreement can be truly implemented depends on whether it can gain broad support from all…

China’s goods imports and exports reached a record 5.16 trillion yuan ($771 billion) in September, surpassing 5 trillion yuan for the first time in a single month, up 27.5% year on year, according to customs data released on Wednesday. The growth marked the sixth consecutive month in which China’s monthly foreign trade growth remained in double digits, highlighting sustained momentum in the country’s external trade. In the first three quarters of 2026, the country’s total goods trade reached 39.94 trillion yuan, an increase of 18.8% from a year earlier, according to the General Administration of Customs. Exports rose 16.4% year…

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday sent a congratulatory letter to the 140th edition of the China Import and Export Fair, also known as the Canton Fair, which will be held in Guangzhou, south China’s Guangdong Province, from October 15 to November 4. In his letter, Xi said over the past 70 years since its establishment, the Canton Fair has played a significant role in promoting trade exchanges between China and other countries, serving as an effective platform for China to expand high-level opening up and promote the building of an open world economy. Under the new circumstances, China is…

ISLAMABAD (DI NEWS) : inDrive, a global mobility and urban services platform, has partnered with Tech Valley, a Google for Education Premier Partner, to launch Digital Safar, a free online digital-safety and AI-literacy programme for children of inDrive drivers in Pakistan. The initiative will reach 300 children in grades 6-10 through a three-week programme featuring live online classes in Urdu. An in-person orientation for participating families will take place in Islamabad on 17 October, ahead of classes beginning on 19 October and concluding on 9 November 2026. Awais Saeed, Country Lead of inDrive Pakistan said: “Our drivers work hard to…

Police and intelligence agencies have compiled a record of terrorist attacks in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) from 2025 to August 2026, revealing a significant difference in the number of incidents reported in the two provinces. According to the record, KP witnessed 2,782 terrorist attacks during the one-year-and-eight-month period, while Punjab reported 44 incidents. The details have been forwarded to high-ranking officials. The compiled data shows that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa experienced the highest number of terrorist incidents during the period under review, with a total of 2,782 attacks recorded from 2025 to August 2026. The attacks resulted in the martyrdom of…

Pakistan and Oman have called for coordinated efforts to restore regional peace and stability as escalating tensions disrupt energy supplies and drive up prices. The two countries discussed key global and regional issues during high-level talks at the Foreign Office in Islamabad, alongside plans to expand bilateral trade and cooperation. Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr bin Hamad bin Hamoud Al-Busaidi was welcomed by Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar ahead of the eighth session of the Pakistan-Oman Joint Ministerial Commission. Dar and Al-Busaidi held a one-on-one meeting before co-chairing the Joint Ministerial Commission session. According to the Foreign…

Pakistan and Russia have agreed to strengthen security cooperation by signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on information sharing to combat organised crime. The two countries have also pledged to expedite agreements on extraditing wanted individuals, exchanging prisoners and implementing a readmission agreement. The decisions were reached during a meeting between Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi and visiting Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev at the Ministry of Interior in Islamabad. During the meeting, both ministers reaffirmed their commitment to expanding bilateral cooperation in areas of mutual interest. They agreed to sign an MoU to facilitate the exchange of information and strengthen…

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said on Tuesday six people had ​been confirmed dead in the ‌state from Hurricane Isaias, which made landfall last week. “We have now had six storm-related fatalities,” DeSantis told ​reporters. The six deaths included two ​that had been previously confirmed. Those two ⁠deaths were in Escambia County in ​the state’s far west. One person ​died when a tree fell on their home while the other died from carbon monoxide exposure caused ​by a generator operating inside their ​garage, officials said. DeSantis said the four newly confirmed ‌deaths ⁠included a car crash at an intersection where the…

An Indian court ordered that two leaders of the youth-led Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) be detained in jail for five days, the party and police said on Wednesday, a day after they scaled barricades to enter a historic site popular for protests and chanted ​slogans demanding the election chief’s resignation. The detentions risk triggering fresh protests by youth supporters at a time ​when opposition groups and student bodies are holding almost daily demonstrations to demand commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s ⁠resignation over voter list revisions that critics say favour Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The Election Commission has ​denied…