IRGC-run Sepahnews quoted Musaavi, deputy GM of HATAM Anbiya Oil & Gas Holding, saying the Mehr Persian Gulf Refinery coming online will raise Iran’s gasoline output by 13 million liters a day and diesel by 3 million liters a day.

A measurement team led by the Hunan Society of Agronomy with experts from the China National Rice Research Institute and Wuhan University recorded 530.4 kg per mu from a large-scale hybrid rice seed-production demonstration plot in Wuyang town, Suining County, Shaoyang, Hunan — the first reported seed-production yield to exceed 1,000 jin per mu. The plot used the super-rice hybrid Shuangliang You 138. China’s hybrid rice planting area remains above 200 mln mu; cumulative promoted area exceeded 10 bln mu by 2025. High seed costs and long-running seed-production yields of around 160 kg/mu have been identified as a major constraint on the sector’s sustainable development.

Data center construction has emerged as one of the most contentious issues in the 2026 US election cycle, prompting local, state and federal Republican and Democratic lawmakers to propose partial construction moratoria. With about two months until the November midterms, Trump has repeatedly voiced support for AI data centers, but an NBC News Decision Desk poll found 69% of respondents oppose building AI data centers near their homes, including 45% who are strongly opposed. Republican opposition is lower but still a majority at 57%; 81% of Democrats and 71% of independents oppose local AI data center construction.