The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation's ten heads of state met in the Kyrgyz capital, where Kazakhstan pushed a package of proposals on security, trade, connectivity and technology.
An emergency use authorisation for an in vitro diagnostic device is the standard early move in an outbreak, and the one that determines what everything else can do.
Nagoya hosts from late September, with athletics split across two venues and India defending both kabaddi crowns.
China's president urged Middle Eastern states to oppose 'external interference' and offered cooperation on safeguarding maritime routes disrupted by the war.
United Russia is expected to retain its majority in elections to be held before 20 September. What the vote will show is how the system manages participation.
Refining capacity, not crude supply, is the binding constraint — and it is the one that reaches freight costs, food prices and factory output.
Running 7-11 September with an Implementation Forum, the meeting is where the compromises that will define COP31 actually get negotiated.
The 'AI Plus' initiative pushes adoption across existing industries, with official projections putting AI-related sectors above 10 trillion yuan by 2030.