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China, US agree to $30b tariff cut, AI dialogue during Xi visit, Beijing says

China said on Saturday it had agreed with the United States on a $30 billion reciprocal tariff-reduction arrangement and on launching a ​dialogue on AI, under an eight-point consensus reached during President ‌Xi Jinping's visit to Washington. The two sides have also agreed to set up a trade council and extend the outcomes of earlier talks in Kuala Lumpur, the Chinese ​Foreign Ministry said. The agreement follows an earlier move by ​the world's two largest economies to extend by two months ⁠a trade truce that had been due to expire on November 10, ​allowing more time to work on a potentially bigger trade deal, US ​Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Wednesday. Read: US, China buy time with trade truce as pressure builds The three-day summit between Xi and President Donald Trump, which ended on Friday, showcased personal diplomacy rather than big public breakthroughs. ​Xi has since landed in Beijing, Chinese state news agency Xinhua reported ​on Saturday. On a...
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School materials allowed into Gaza after two years of Israeli blockages, UN agency says

The UN children’s agency said on Tuesday it had, for the first time in two-and-a-half years, been able to deliver school kits with learning materials into Gaza after they were previously blocked by Israeli authorities. Thousands of kits, including pencils, exercise books and wooden cubes to play with, have now entered the enclave, Unicef said. Read: Israeli airstrikes shatter Gaza 'ceasefire' "We have now, in the last days, got in thousands of recreational kits, hundreds of school-in-a-carton kits. We're looking at getting 2,500 more school kits in, in the next week, because they've been approved," Unicef spokesperson James Elder said. COGAT, the arm of the Israeli military that oversees aid flows into the Gaza Strip, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Children in Gaza have faced an unprecedented assault on the education system, as well as restrictions on the entry of some aid materials, including school books and pencils, meaning teachers had to make do with limited resources, while children tried to study at night in tents without lights, Elder said. Read more: Israel to reopen Rafah crossing after operation to recover hostage’s body During the conflict, many children missed out on education altogether, facing basic challenges like finding water, as well as widespread malnutrition, amid a major humanitarian crisis caused by Israel's blockade of aid. "It's been a long two years for children and for organisations like Unicef to try and do that education without those materials. It looks like we're finally seeing a real change," Elder stated. Unicef is scaling up its education to support half of children of school age — around 336,000 — with learning support. Teaching will mainly happen in tents, Elder said, due to widespread devastation of school buildings in the enclave during the genocide. Also read: Israel orders Gaza families to move in first forced evacuation since 'ceasefire' At least 97% of schools sustained some level of damage, according to the most recent satellite assessment by the UN in July. The bulk of the learning spaces supported by Unicef will be in central and southern areas of the enclave, as it remains difficult to operate in the north, parts of which were badly destroyed in the final months of the conflict, Elder said. The attack in October 2023 and Israel's enactment of the Hannibal Directive killed 1,200 people, according to Israeli tallies. Israel's assault has killed over 71,000 Palestinians, according to official records in Gaza. More than 20,000 children were killed, including 110 since the October 10 ceasefire last year, Unicef said, citing official data.

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