China's Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security said it will study issuing a service-sector development document to promote employment. The ministry will deepen implementation of measures to stabilize jobs, expand and improve employment quality, prioritize stabilizing employment in labor‑intensive industries and tap job potential in emerging and future industries, coordinating with other departments on the policy.

The Pentagon has revised upward the number of US service members who died in Iran-related military operations in the Middle East to 21, the Washington Post reports, after adding two non-combat deaths to its Defense Casualty Analysis System. The newly included cases are Army National Guard Maj. Saufley Davious, 46, who died in Kuwait on March 6, and an unnamed Navy service member who died by suicide in September. The Post last month cited US officials saying fatalities exceeded the Pentagon’s published totals; Defense Secretary Hegseth at the time called that reporting “a complete lie.”

Axios reports two US officials and one Israeli official say the US did not ask Israel to carry out strikes on Iran before Israel’s Oct. 27 election. Earlier media reports said the US had urged Israel in recent weeks to strike Iran ahead of Oct. 27 to avoid US direct military action that could affect the Nov. 3 US midterm elections.