Syria's foreign minister met Pakistan's deputy prime minister and foreign minister in Islamabad to discuss strengthening bilateral relations, expanding cooperation across sectors, and coordinating on regional and international security and stability.

Al Arabiya reports US ambassador to Israel Mike Hekabi said Trump could consider military action against Iran if Tehran refuses to abandon its nuclear and uranium-enrichment ambitions and to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

China's Baotou Rare Earth Research Institute, Tianjin branch, has achieved a core technical breakthrough in the project to develop an ultra-dry anhydrous scandium chloride production process, successfully producing scandium chloride with water content below 50 ppm. The institute says it now masters full-series rare-earth anhydrous halide synthesis technology, filling a domestic gap in scandium-based high-end rare-earth functional materials. The ultra-dry scandium chloride can be used in laser crystal manufacture, specialty light sources, radiation detection equipment, fuel cells and high-safety lithium batteries, providing material support for China's low-altitude economy and new-energy system development.