Israeli outlets Ynet and the Jerusalem Post report Prime Minister Netanyahu will drastically shorten a planned US trip to speak at the UN General Assembly and return to Israel immediately after his address. He has canceled a scheduled meeting with Elon Musk and currently has no meeting arranged with US President Trump; under current plans he may be in New York for only a few hours. An Israeli advance team had gone to Texas to prepare the Musk meeting but was informed it was canceled; Israeli off

Axios, citing a WBG map, said the Iran war has pushed global fuel prices higher, with large gains in fuel-import-dependent economies. Pakistan pump prices rose 51% from Feb to Sep; the United States, the world’s largest oil and gasoline producer, saw gasoline climb 49% over the same period. Unlike some countries, the U.S. federal government has not imposed retail price caps or provided fuel subsidies.

China State Railway Group said national railway freight totaled 2.69 billion tonnes in Jan–Aug, averaging 187,400 loaded cars per day. Rail shipments of coal were 1.389 billion tonnes over the period, including 928 million tonnes of thermal (power) coal. The railway increased outward coal flows from major producing regions — Shanxi, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang — and worked to ensure thermal coal deliveries met demand over the summer peak. Coal stocks at power plants directly supplied by the national railway remained at elevated levels.