Finnish Defence Forces said Finland has lifted the temporary air restriction zone over the eastern Gulf of Finland.

ENI and the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) have formed joint venture RH3OVA to provide specialist advisory and operations services to the growing global fusion energy industry.

A-shares opened lower and slid through the morning session. At midday the Shanghai Composite was down 0.9%, the Shenzhen Composite Index down 2.09% and the ChiNext Index down 3.47%; combined turnover topped 2.2 trillion yuan and more than 2,000 stocks were lower. The STAR 50 Index fell over 4% intraday. Precious-metals names outperformed, with several miners — including Xianglu Tungsten, Chifeng Gold, Zhaojin Gold and Shanjin International — hitting daily limit-ups. Humanoid-robot concept stocks also rallied, with over ten constituents at limit-up. Advanced packaging warmed, while semiconductor equipment continued to weaken; compute-hardware plays, glass-substrate and memory-chip sectors posted the largest declines.