Coking coal most-active contract rose 6.00% intraday to 1,721 yuan/tonne.

Pakistan's foreign ministry said the foreign minister, Defence Minister Asif and Army Chief Asim Munir will represent Pakistan at the Makkah Agreement Committee meeting.

China held the 2026 National Social Science Fund annual project review in Beijing; Politburo member and head of the Central Propaganda Department Li Shulei attended and spoke. The meeting ordered priority on systematic theoretical and philosophical study of the Party’s innovation theory and faster construction of an autonomous Chinese philosophy and social-science knowledge system to tackle major theoretical and practical issues of Chinese-style modernization. It called for systemic reform of the National Social Science Fund and research management—sharpening academic evaluation, promoting rigorous academic conduct, reorganising funding and institutions to focus on solving real problems—and urged creative transformation of traditional Chinese culture and wider deployment of digital‑intelligence tools to empower social-science research.