On Sept. 10 local time, Qatar’s prime minister and foreign minister Mohammed held a phone call with Saudi foreign minister Faisal to discuss bilateral cooperation and recent regional developments. Mohammed said Qatar supports all diplomatic efforts to secure freedom of navigation and seeks solutions to protect shipping, and called for conditions that would enable a comprehensive agreement and lasting regional peace. He said recent tensions have severely disrupted Strait of Hormuz shipping, and t

CARNEY says Canada plans to produce several million drones over the next two years and will send one-third of them to Ukraine.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs issued a national livestock and veterinary industry 15th Five-Year Plan, targeting by 2030 higher-quality development of the livestock sector with more secure supply of major meat and poultry products and an upgraded product mix including more high-quality specialty outputs. The plan seeks to consolidate production capacity, optimise scale and facility-based farming, and strengthen technology support. It directs policy to enhance the role of large enterprises in linking and supporting farmers, improve value-chain profit distribution, and raise the operating quality of small and mid-sized farms. The ministry targets effective control of major animal diseases, progress on disease purification in breeding stock, lower zoonotic risk and stronger veterinary public-health standards, alongside a reduction in veterinary antibiotic use per unit of livestock product. Environmental measures emphasise greater recycling of manure, wider adoption of integrated crop–livestock systems and continued green transformation of the sector.