Azerbaijan President Aliyev said he supports negotiations aimed at ending the conflict in Ukraine.

China's Ministry of Transport said the 15th Five‑Year Plan aim is to largely complete a modern comprehensive transport system. It will prioritize infrastructure renewal and digitalization, targeting roughly 80,000 km of facility upgrades by 2030 and launching a new rural‑road upgrade drive to build/rehabilitate about 500,000 km. The ministry will accelerate metropolitan integrated transport networks and intercity commuting efficiency, develop 20 international and 80 national comprehensive transport‑hub cities, push multimodal logistics, remove bottlenecks and, over roughly five years, upgrade about 1,000 major freight nodes to strengthen multimodal capacity.

Jefferies cuts IBM (IBM.N) PT to $260 from $320.