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TREE NEWS update: US President Donald Trump said in an interview on September 27 local time that negotiations with Iran are expected to continue this week. The remark came a day after he rejected Iran’s proposal to end the war. No further details of the talks or the rejected plan were given.

TREE NEWS update: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the Federal Reserve Board should keep an open mind, in comments made public on Wednesday. The remark from the top Treasury official comes amid ongoing scrutiny of the central bank’s policy stance. Bessent did not specify which decisions or deliberations his comment referred to.

TREE NEWS reports: No ship attacks have occurred in the Strait of Hormuz over the past two days. The report contradicts earlier expectations of renewed strikes in the key oil transit chokepoint. No further details were immediately available.

TREE NEWS reports: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said core inflation is dormant, in a statement on the state of US price pressures. The remark points to a view that underlying inflation is not currently accelerating. No further figures or policy details were given.

TREE NEWS update: Zhejiang’s Marine Economic Development Department released guidelines on marine clean energy, targeting an industry and equipment scale above RMB 300 billion by 2030. The plan covers offshore wind, offshore solar, ocean energy and coastal nuclear power, with offshore wind capacity to exceed 10 GW and tidal energy reaching commercial deployment at the 100 MW level. It also aims to cultivate more than 50 leading and specialized marine clean energy firms.

TREE NEWS update: China finished first on the gold medal table at the 48th WorldSkills Competition, whose closing ceremony was held in Shanghai on the evening of Sept 27. It is China’s fifth consecutive time atop the WorldSkills gold standings. The Chinese delegation sent 71 competitors who entered all 64 events.

TREE NEWS update: China National Machinery Industry Corporation (Sinomach) subsidiary Guojizhongzhuang completed and shipped eight TF coil cases for BEST, the world’s first compact fusion energy experimental device, at a ceremony held September 27 at its Deyang base. The TF coil case is a core component of the superconducting magnet system and demands extremely high material standards. The batch will serve construction of BEST in support of China’s controlled nuclear fusion strategy.

TREE NEWS update: Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya resigned as vice chair of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) after opposition accusations that she and her husband were involved in stock trading tied to the country’s widening fund crisis. Announcing the move on X, she said she wanted the allegations clarified “without leaving any doubt.”

TREE NEWS update: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Iran sees no reason to return to diplomacy. The remark signals Tehran’s current reluctance to re-engage in negotiations, without further conditions or context specified in the material.

TREE NEWS update: British police evacuated residents near a US-used air base in England on May 27 and arrested several men on suspicion of explosives offences. The incident occurred in Welford, near RAF Fairford. No further details on the arrests or the nature of the threat were immediately released.

TREE NEWS reports: China’s urban renewal investment rose to 3.2 trillion yuan in 2025 from 2.6 trillion yuan in 2023, Yang Baojun, chairman of the Urban Planning Society of China, said. Supporting mechanisms including policy-based financial support, planning and land measures, urban health checks and urban renewal statistics have been rolled out, with the investment playing a growing role in expanding domestic demand and stabilizing growth.

TREE NEWS reports: US President Donald Trump said the war with Iran will end soon and that oil prices will fall once it does. The remark, made without a specific timeline, ties the expected drop in crude prices to the conflict’s conclusion. No further details were provided.

TREE NEWS reports: An airstrike on Yemen’s southwestern Taiz province on 27th killed at least seven people and wounded 40, all of them civilians, which is controlled by the Houthi movement. The broadcaster blamed Saudi Arabia for carrying out the strike.

TREE NEWS update: A magnitude 3.1 earthquake struck Feidong County in Hefei, Anhui Province, at 20:02 on September 27. The epicenter was located at 32.00 degrees north latitude and 117.60 degrees east longitude, with a focal depth of 10 kilometers.

TREE NEWS update: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said a Russian overnight strike killed at least four people in Ukraine and hit a data center in Kyiv. Three people died in the Zaporizhzhia region and one man was killed in Kyiv, Zelensky wrote on X. He added that civilian infrastructure, including energy facilities and residential buildings, was hit in at least eight regions.

TREE NEWS reports: Beijing’s commerce bureau said 127 key monitored enterprises recorded 4.04 billion yuan in cumulative sales during the Sept. 25-27 Mid-Autumn holiday, up 20% from the corresponding period of last year’s National Day-Mid-Autumn break. Foot traffic across 70 major commercial districts reached 27.088 million visits, a 14.7% increase.

TREE NEWS update: Interior ministers from several European countries and EU officials met in Germany on September 26 to discuss tightening border controls and improving rapid emergency response. German Interior Minister Dobrindt called for an EU fast-track deportation procedure in response to the large numbers of illegal migrants entering the Spanish enclave of Ceuta since late July. About 10,000 illegal migrants remain stranded in Ceuta.

TREE NEWS update: Iran’s armed forces struck 19 vessels in the Strait of Hormuz over the past two nights for violating regulations, state-aligned Iranian media reported. The ships attempted to use unauthorized waterways. Twelve vessels were struck on Friday night and seven on Saturday night.

TREE NEWS update: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said on September 27 that its navy captured a US Remus 600 unmanned underwater vehicle conducting espionage missions in the Strait of Hormuz, in a coordinated operation involving intelligence monitoring and electronic warfare. The IRGC said the advanced UUV is in the custody of its naval forces and that experts are working to recover its data. The IRGC warned it will take decisive and sustained action against dangerous and unauthorized activity in the Strait of Hormuz.

TREE NEWS update: Giant pandas Pingping and Fushuang arrived at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on the morning of the 27th, US Eastern Time, aboard a charter flight. Under arrangements between China and the United States, the pair will begin a 10-year residency at Zoo Atlanta.