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China’s exports to the United States fell 27% in September from the year before, even though growth in its global exports hit a six-month high.

Shipments to Southeast Asia grew 15.6% year-on-year in September. Exports to Latin America and Africa were up 15% and 56%, respectively.

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Lahore (Pakistan) (AFP) – Pakistani police said Monday they launched a clearance operation against a hardline Islamist party after failed negotiations to call off an anti-Israel protest, with five killed in the violence, including one policeman.

The Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) began its protests in Lahore on Thursday and planned to march to the US embassy in Islamabad, leading authorities to block roads between the two cities and shut down the internet.

After negotiations between TLP and the government collapsed on Sunday, authorities launched a "dispersal operation" in Muridke, a town north of Lahore, where more than 7,000 supporters had reached in their march to the capital.

Police said workers of TLP "resorted to stone pelting, spiked batons, and petrol bombs" and opened "indiscriminate fire, resulting in casualties among civilians and law enforcement personnel".

TLP has been behind some of Pakistan's most violent protests, and frequently calls on the government to expel Western ambassadors.

"One police officer and four civilians died," the police statement said, adding that several rioters had been arrested while 48 law enforcement personnel and eight civilians were injured.

The TLP had originally said the protests were organised to voice its opposition to the US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, backed by Pakistan, after two years of war in Gaza.

It later said the protest was in solidarity with Palestinians.

"There were police personnel besieging us. They were firing bullets and tear gas. They kept shooting continuously for three to four hours," said Abou Sufian, a TLP protester.

After the operation, charred cars, including the TLP leader's main truck, were left in the street.

"There were no real negotiations. The government just used the word 'negotiation' to give the impression to the general public that they were holding a dialogue," Allama Irfan, a senior member of TLP told AFP.

Shipping containers were being placed as barriers across major roads in the capital in anticipation of the protesters' arrival.

As many as 50 police officers were injured in Friday's clashes, a senior police official told AFP, while TLP claims that some of its members had been killed could not be verified independently.

Israel declared a ceasefire and began pulling back its troops at around noon on Friday, as tens of thousands of Palestinians began walking back towards their devastated homes.

The operation came at a time when Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif reached Egypt to attend the signing ceremony of the Gaza peace plan.

"Today's ceremony marks the closing of a genocidal chapter, one that the international community must ensure is never repeated anywhere again," Sharif wrote on X.

Pakistan has no formal diplomatic relations with Israel.

This is number six in a seven part series of jellyfish. Made from recycled copper pipe and wire as well as local beach finds. Copper is all hand pounded.

Measurements of entire sculpture 14"x14"x18" high.

I hope you enjoy.

Available.

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Kon Chukurbashi (Tajikistan) (AFP) – Greenland is melting, the Alps are melting and the Himalayas are melting -- yet in one vast mountain region, huge glaciers have remained stable, or even gained mass, in recent decades. Can it last?

To find out, a dozen scientists, accompanied exclusively by an AFP photographer, trekked high over one glacier in eastern Tajikistan to drill for ice cores -- ancient, deep samples that can shed precious light on climate change.

In September and October, they first spent four days crossing the country from west to east in four-wheel drives, then climbed on foot to over 5,800 metres altitude on the Kon-Chukurbashi ice cap, near the Chinese border.

Camping for a week at the summit, in freezing temperatures and despite a day-long blizzard, the scientists from Switzerland, Japan, the United States and Tajikistan drilled the glacier to extract two 105-metre-long ice cores, in sections.

These layers of ice, compacted over centuries, perhaps millennia, form an archive of climate indicators, yielding data on past snowfall, temperatures, atmosphere and dust.

They must now be analysed in a laboratory to reveal their dates, said the leader of the team, Evan Miles, a glaciologist affiliated with the universities of Fribourg and Zurich.

"We're hopeful for a truly unique core, not just for the region, but for the broader region actually, probably extending back 20 to 25 or 30,000 years."

The apparently resistant glaciers are spread over thousands of kilometres of high mountain ranges in Central Asia, including Karakoram, Tian Shan, Kun Lun and the Pamir mountains of Tajikistan.

By delving back in time in the ice there, researchers hope to find out why these glaciers have resisted the general planetary warming of recent decades -- and whether this so-called "Karakoram anomaly" could be ending.

"This whole region is globally unique because over the last 25 years, these glaciers have shown very, very limited mass loss and even mass gain," said Miles.

The glaciers have shown some limited signs of loss in recent years, but scientists want to determine whether this is a natural variation or the beginning of a real decline.

"In order to understand that, we really, really need to have a longer time period of records of both temperature and precipitation at the glacier sites," said Miles.

"That's the type of information that an ice core can tell us."

One core will be sent to Japan for analysis and another stored in an underground sanctuary in Antarctica at minus 50C.

That naturally cold storage site is a project of the Ice Memory Foundation, which supported the Tajikistan expedition along with main funder, the Swiss Polar Institute.

The foundation, created in 2021 by French, Italian and Swiss universities and research centres, has already collected several cores in the Alps, Greenland, the Andes and elsewhere.

Future scientists will "be able to analyse (them) with their most modern analytical tools in 50, 100, 200 years and extract new information", said Ice Memory's president Thomas Stocker.

"We will probably lose 90 percent of our glacier mass on the Earth," Stocker told AFP. "So we are trying to help preserve a thing that is threatened by human action."

The scientists were scheduled to review their mission during a news conference in the Tajik capital Dushanbe on Monday.

Definition of "sore loser": the IOF after ceasefire announced

The IOF "conducted a large-scale arson campaign across Gaza City, torching homes and key infrastructure including a major sewage plant, just hours after Trump announced the ceasefire agreement"
Social media post: "...Burning food so that it won't reach the Gazans"
Burning sanitation facility photo caption: "[one] last memory."

My msg to them: Karma's bitch

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/new-report-details-extensive-israeli-arson-in-gaza-after-cea
@palestine
#IsraelTerroristState
#IOF #SoreLosers

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Relations hit rock bottom in 2023 when Canada's then PM Justin Trudeau accused India of being linked to the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, claims Delhi denied. Both countries suspended visa services and expelled each other's top diplomats.

After the meeting of their foreign ministers in Delhi, the two sides announced a series of measures, including starting ministerial-level discussions on bilateral trade and investment.

"Reviving this partnership will not only create opportunities for enhanced economic cooperation but also help mitigate vulnerabilities arising from shifting global alliances," a joint statement said.

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