The signing took place on the sidelines of the 11th Belt and Road Summit, which brought together representatives from government agencies, leading global financial institutions, and business circles in both countries. As a result, NBU became the first commercial bank in Uzbekistan to gain access to modern infrastructure for direct cross-border yuan settlements. Direct access to the system, connecting over 1,800 financial institutions across 130 countries and handling transactions exceeding 180.2 trillion yuan in 2025, enables yuan-denominated transactions without relying on intermediary corre…

Santiago, Thursday, September 10, 2026.-The President of the Republic, José Antonio Kast, received this Thursday at the La Moneda Palace the president of the Inter-American Development Bank Group (IDB), Ilan Goldfajn, within the framework of the joint work between the international organization and the Government of Chile to strengthen cooperation in different strategic areas for the country. During the meeting, the progress of the Country Strategy 2027–2030 was addressed, an instrument that will define the main areas of collaboration between Chile and the IDB Group over the coming years. Amon…

Santo Domingo.–The Superates Directorate of Social Development held a meeting with governors from different provinces of the country, with the purpose of socializing institutional goals and strengthening the territorial articulation of social protection policies, with special attention to prioritized territories. During the event, headed by the general director of Supérate, Mayra Jiménez, the main actions carried out by the institution in the territories were addressed, with emphasis on the provision of services, training and support to participating families, ensuring that social protection …

Santo Domingo.-The Social Security Treasury (TSS) developed a work day together with specialists from Amazon Web Services (AWS), focused on the design of modern, scalable and secure technological solutions, capable of responding to the future needs of the institution and its users, specifically for the Single Information and Collection System (SUIR). The session was part of the TSS technological modernization strategy and was aimed at building an architecture based on independent services, with the capacity to incorporate new functionalities, facilitate the maintenance of applications and ada…

Santo Domingo.–The General Directorate of Community Development (DGDC) and the Junior Chamber International Dominican Republic (JCI RD) signed an inter-institutional collaboration agreement aimed at strengthening the execution of programs, projects and initiatives of community impact and youth development at the national level. The agreement establishes a cooperation framework through which both institutions will articulate efforts, capacities and resources for the planning, execution, monitoring and evaluation of initiatives aimed at generating opportunities and contributing to the developme…

Sabana Iglesia, Santiago. – The Minister of Sports and Recreation, Kelvin Cruz, led this Wednesday the first groundbreaking ceremony that marks the beginning of the construction of the multipurpose facility in the Sabana Iglesia municipality, in the Santiago province. The facility, which will directly impact hundreds of young athletes and the institutions of this community, contemplates an investment of RD 33,700,692.69 by the Ministry of Sports. Cruz highlighted that the work responds to President Luis Abinader's commitment to dignify sports and cultural spaces throughout the country. “Tha…

Santo Domingo Norte.- With a symbolic palazzo, the general director of the Santo Domingo Aqueduct and Sewer Corporation (Caasd), engineer Fellito Suberví, started the work for the stormwater and sanitary sanitation of the Yaguasa riverbed (Juan Vaquero), in Barrio Norte of the Los Guaricanos sector, which will solve a years-long problem for the municipalities of this town, with the elimination of environmental pollution and floods. Engineer Suberví explained that the work has an investment of RD 266.1 million, and will be characterized by the total coverage of the tributary with a box-type se…

Santo Domingo.- The director of the National Institute of Traffic and Land Transportation (Intrant), Juan Manuel Méndez, held a meeting with the president of the Dominican National Transportation Federation (Fenatrado), Ricardo de los Santos, and members of its board of directors, in which they evaluated alternatives to enable the transit of heavy vehicles, strengthen road safety and guarantee compliance with the law. The meeting is part of the rapprochement agenda that Méndez develops with the different actors linked to transit and land transportation, with the purpose of strengthening insti…

Santo Domingo.-The Santiago Aqueduct and Sewer Corporation (Coraasan) has intervened more than 50 roads between avenues and streets throughout the province, with the operation of placing covers and collecting wastewater records. The general director of Coraasan, engineer Andrés Cueto, said that more than 500 lids made of two types of materials have been placed: iron with resin with an integrated hinge and/or security screw with a special key to prevent theft and 20 and 21-inch fiberglass with a screw. The first, in the main arteries with the greatest circulation of the city and the second, lo…

Santo Domingo.-The National Institute of Professional Technical Training (Infotep), in alliance with the Circle of Health Journalists (Cipesa), certified 65 journalists and communicators who completed the Diploma in Strategic Health Communication, corresponding to the fourth cohort of this specialized training program. The deputy general director of Infotep, Luis Manuel Rodríguez, representing the general director, Maira Morla Pineda, highlighted the institution's commitment to the training of professionals linked to strategic sectors of society. "In health issues, communicating well also me…

Santo Domingo.-Twenty-two producers from the provinces of San José de Ocoa and Peravi received bonus certificates corresponding to the calls for medium-sized projects in the Southern and National Photovoltaic region, totaling an amount of RD 14,587,494.82, granted by the Executive Directorate of National Irrigation Technology (TNR), through the Fund for the Promotion of the Technology of the National Irrigation System. Irrigation (Fotesir), aimed at promoting the efficient use of water and the use of solar energy in irrigation systems. Of the total amount, RD 11,630,107.02 were allocated to 1…

The V4 agreed on common goals for the EU budget negotiations Competitiveness, energy crisis, EU budget - these were the most important items on the agenda of the meeting of the Visegrad Four in Bratislava. The V4 heads of government held talks together with the Irish Prime Minister, Micheál Martin, who presides over the EU, in the Slovak capital. The Prime Ministers of the countries of the Visegrad Group met with the Prime Minister of Ireland, which chairs the Council of the European Union, on Thursday in Bratislava. Micheál Martin discussed the priorities of the Irish presidency with Donald…

Abu Dhabi, Sept. 10 (SANA)Emirates GlobalAluminium(EGA), the world’s largest producer of premium aluminium, announced Thursday that it has completed the acquisition of an 80% stake inItalian aluminiumrecycling companyEco Green. The acquisition marks a strategic step in EGA’s efforts to expand its aluminium recycling business globally and support the transition toward a circular economy and more sustainable industrial future in Europe. EGA CEO Abdulnasser Bin Kalban said the acquisition strengthens the company’s global aluminium recycling operations, adding that Eco Green brings specialized e…

Deir Ezzor, Sept. 10 (SANA)An 18-month project to remove and recycledebrisfrom damaged neighborhoods inDeir Ezzorcity was launched Thursday as part of efforts to support recovery and reconstruction.The “Fajr al-Furat” project, supervised by the governorate and implemented in cooperation between the city council and Zoom Investment Holding Group, began in al-Roshdiyah neighborhood, where machinery started clearing rubble and rehabilitating damaged areas. Deir Ezzor Governor Ziad al-Ayash said the project would recycle debris into materials that can be reused in reconstruction. He said the work…

Occupied Jerusalem, Sept. 10 (SANA)Israeli occupation forces detained more than 100Palestiniansin theWest Bankover the past week, including children, women, former detainees and journalists, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society said Thursday. In a statement carried by WAFA news agency, the society said the occupation forces were continuing to escalate detention operations across the West Bank’s governorates. It said the campaign during the past week alone targeted more than 100 Palestinians and was accompanied by a series of violations and crimes, including field executions, on-site interrogati…

Damascus, Sept. 10 (SANA)Syria’sNational Information Technology Services Authorityhas completed the transition to new software for the .sy domain registry, strengthening the security, reliability and stability of domain name services for users and institutions. The Authority said on Facebook Thursday that the upgrade replaces previous software whose support ended in 2017 and provides more stable domain management and clearer access to registration information through RDAP and WHOIS services. The locally developed system, built by Syrian specialists, also supports the Extensible Provisioning …

Beijing, Sept. 10 (SANA)An international alliance aimed at combating cross-border telecommunications and cyber fraud was launched Thursday in Lianyungang, easternChina, bringing together 46 founding countries, 34 observer countries and four international organizations, including the United Nations andInterpol. The alliance was established at a conference in Lianyungang, eastern China, with representatives from 46 founding countries, 34 observer countries and four international organizations, including the United Nations and Interpol, according to China’s Xinhua News Agency. Initiated by the …

New York, Sept. 10 (SANA)Global shipping is facing an unprecedented convergence of security threats across some of the world’s busiest waterways, with vessels and seafarers increasingly caught up in geopolitical conflicts, a senior International Maritime Organization (IMO) official said Thursday. Damien Chevallier, Director of the IMO’s Maritime Safety Division, toldUNNews that simultaneous crises in the Strait of Hormuz, the Red Sea, waters off Somalia and the Black Sea were putting growing pressure on the shipping industry. About 2,000 vessels and 20,000 seafarers were affected by disrupti…

Washington, Sept. 10 (SANA)U.S. PresidentDonald Trumpsaid he expects the war withIranto end after November’s midterm elections, even as renewed attacks near theStrait of Hormuzand escalating fighting inYemenraise concerns over regional security and global energy supplies. Trump told reporters Wednesday that he believed Tehran was seeking to influence the U.S. elections and could not sustain the conflict much longer. “I think the war will end as soon as the election is over because they can’t hold out much longer. They are desperate to try to influence the election,” Trump said, according to …

London, Sept. 10 (SANA)British Prime Minister Andy Burnham welcomed his country’s decision to ban imports of goods produced in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, along with the introduction of a comprehensive sanctions system, saying Britain must stand with justice against injustice. The BBC quoted Burnham as saying Thursday that “when people are forced from their homes under pressure, we will always stand alongside the weaker party.” Foreign Secretary, Ed Miliband, for his part, said the measures were introduced following concerns over the planned development of the E1 settlemen…