Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa counterterrorism department said on the 24th that a joint operation with police killed six terrorists. The department said the group had earlier attacked a local police post, killing one officer.

MOFCOM spokesperson, answering questions on improving handling of reports of export-control violations involving strategic minerals and dual-use items, said strengthening report-handling and enforcement capability is a basic requirement of China’s export-control system and a measure to safeguard national security and interests. The ministry said using reporting to monitor export-control violations is common internationally and that drawing on other countries’ practices to improve China’s reporting system can help prevent controlled items being diverted to illicit uses.

Venezuela experienced consecutive M7+ earthquakes, followed shortly by an M7.2 off Japan’s northeast coast; California recorded an M5.6 the same day. Lucy Jones, senior seismologist at Caltech, said the events are not causally linked: they occurred on different faults and plate boundaries, so one quake did not trigger another. Timing may be coincidental; each quake struck known active plate boundaries where stress has accumulated over decades to centuries, and while large quakes are part of the natural cycle in these regions, precise timing remains unpredictable.