2026-09-29
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A daytime Russian drone strike on the National Academy of Sciences in central Kiev killed at least one person.
19 people were injured in total as Russia pounded the Ukrainian capital.
Four more people died in attacks around Dnipro.
Russia has begun using faster, higher-flying jet drones.
Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine's president, said his forces could intercept only about half of them.
America and China will cut tariffs on around $30 billion worth of each other's goods,
$60 billion in total, including American corn and cosmetics and Chinese toasters
and toys, following Mr Trump's meeting with Xi Jinping last week.
China said a two-month extension of their trade truce to January 10 gave both sides room to advance talks.
China's benchmark CS300 index nonetheless fell more than 2%,
as investors were disappointed by the limited progress at the summit.
AMD, a chipmaker, said it was buying World Labs, a startup founded by Fei-Fei Li, a computer scientist and AI pioneer.