U.S. airport authority to vote on $19.9 bln redevelopment plan for Washington Dulles International Airport.

Netanyahu's Likud held a party primary on the 17th to determine the order of its candidate list ahead of a Knesset election scheduled no later than Oct. 27. Voting ran from 10:00 to 21:00, with roughly 140,000 party members eligible to vote. Israel allocates Knesset seats by proportional representation.

Alibaba Cloud opened its third South Korea data centre and simultaneously launched its Agentic AI service suite. Gwangju-based AI firm Gendive integrated Alibaba Cloud video-generation models Wan and HappyHorse into its Agentic WorkOS product DevDive to enable low-code/no-code document analysis and visual/multimedia content-generation workflows. Naver Z’s Zepeto is using Alibaba Cloud infrastructure to support real-time 3D avatar generation and immersive interactions across Asian markets.