China and the US – Iran’s key partner and its chief adversary – found firmer common ground on Tehran at the Washington summit last month, and further head-of-state diplomacy could work in Iran’s favour, according to analysts. Iran was on the agenda when the presidents of the United States and China met in Beijing in May and again in Washington in September. There was no direct reference to Tehran in Beijing’s statement after the May summit, but following the September meeting China was more...
How closer China-US ties – and more Xi-Trump summits – could work in Iran’s favour
Better links between Beijing and Washington offer more opportunities than threats, Iranian researcher says
There was no direct reference to Tehran in Beijing’s statement after the May summit, but following the September meeting China was more specific, saying it and the US agreed that Iran must uphold its commitment against developing nuclear weapons.
Hong Kong’s economy continued to expand in the third quarter of this year, driven by strong exports and tourism, the city’s finance chief has said, while warning of risks including the war in the Middle East and inflation. Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po also reiterated his confidence that the economy would grow by between 3.5 per cent and 4.5 per cent this year. He was speaking during a Legislative Council debate on the city’s first five-year plan and annual policy address. He noted that...
Despite the recent surge in French borrowing costs that pushed the country’s 10-year bond yield spread with Germany to a level unseen since the euro zone crisis, analysts are urging calm, saying France is not facing a debt crisis but cautioning that future uncertainties remain. “The short answer is no, this is not a debt crisis,” said Stephane Colliac, senior economist at BNP Paribas. France’s effective interest rate is lower than the rising market yields, at slightly above 2 per cent, around...
Il premio è accompagnato da 1,1 milioni di euro. L’anno scorso il riconoscimento era andato agli scopritori di nuovi materiali porosi, con una grande superficie interna, capaci di comportarsi “come la borsa di Harry Potter”
The next task is to enter the ranks of top five operators through further development of international marine logistics, Alexey Likhachev said
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai for their discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis. Kagan is affiliated with Universite Paris-Sud in Orsay, France, and Soai, 95, with the Tokyo University of Science. The award, announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, is the third of six Nobel awards to be handed out this year. Earlier this week, German researchers Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel,.
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