Germany’s finance minister and vice-chancellor plans to urge G20 peers, including the US, to end tariff disputes and regional conflicts — naming the Iran war and the Russia-Ukraine conflict — as damaging to the global economy at meetings beginning next Monday in Asheville, North Carolina. He said reducing “large global uncertainty” is a shared responsibility and will hold bilateral talks with counterparts from India, Canada and the UK to deepen cooperation among countries reliant on open, rules-

Tibet Communications Administration director Nima Duoji said at 18:00 on the 30th a new base station built at the front of road repairs, about 1.6 km from Gyirong port, has established voice links with rescue teams and the signal now reaches the core rescue site. The first emergency base station adjacent to the border gate was commissioned at 13:30 on the 30th. Tibet telecom operators have repaired one base station and deployed eight new stations: two between Gyirong County and Gyirong town, and six between Gyirong town and Gyirong port.

The Chinese Embassy in Nepal said all Chinese nationals contacted after the Nepal landslide had been relocated to safe areas as of local noon.