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In its 50th-anniversary year, Kellett School is pursuing a 10-year plan alongside a reported upgrade to its Pok Fu Lam campus and the opening of a Sixth Form Centre. South China Morning Post PostMag describes how the vision is reflected in plans for Years 10 and 11 courses and in student community projects.
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Agents report growing interest in Italian property among mainland Chinese and Hong Kong buyers. Separately, Knight Frank reports an increase in overall participation in Italy’s flat-tax scheme and more deals in prime residential properties; the figures do not establish a link between these trends.
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Marine Le Pen posted a celebratory assessment before full results were available. French media, citing near-final results from Sunday’s Senate election, reported that her National Rally had secured a parliamentary group in the upper house for the first time. The South China Morning Post said the result would bolster Le Pen as she prepares for a presidential bid next year.
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Al Jazeera’s headline says three people were killed in a Detroit shooting; its report excerpt says four people were in hospital. Police said the shooting followed an altercation at an after-hours venue.
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Al Jazeera’s headline described strikes in southern Lebanon as continuing despite a ceasefire, while its supplied report detail identifies one incident and provides no account of additional strikes.
A drone attack on a market in Sofiiska Borshchahivka, on Kyiv’s western outskirts, killed two people and injured about 10, prosecutors said. Local officials also reported three deaths in strikes in other regions and said Kyiv came under attack.
The South China Morning Post reports that Trump rejected Tehran’s proposed seven-day truce and Strait of Hormuz reopening plan, while saying negotiations with Iran could resume in the coming week.
In a letter published by Guyana Times, Ambassador Sasenarine Singh praised what he described as the policy themes and continuity in President Irfaan Ali’s address to the 81st UN General Assembly. Separately, he supported Ali’s nomination of Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett for UN secretary-general, citing CARICOM’s endorsement.
A Guyana Times letter by Ayinde Sampson contrasts a reported November 2025 forecast by Azruddin Mohamed with the Caribbean Court of Justice’s July 29, 2026 ruling allowing the extradition hearing to continue. Sampson’s concern that further delays could harm public confidence is his argument, not a finding by the court.
Guyana Times reports a US$2 billion US-EXIM Bank initial-framework MoU signed in July 2022 for US exports and infrastructure development, and separately recounts a promise to backstop the upcoming Berbice Gas to Shore project. The column does not establish whether that promise falls under the framework.
Guyana Times reported three alleged armed robberies on Friday: in Stanleytown between 19:30 and 20:00, Nandy Park at about 20:20, and North Road in Georgetown at about 20:30. No arrests were reported in the first and last of those cases; two men were arrested in connection with the Nandy Park case.
Guyana Times reports that the Public Accounts Committee’s previous parliament completed checks only through the 2019 audit, leaving a six-year backlog as the 2025 Auditor General’s Report was handed over. APNU supports merging reports from 2020 to 2023, but the government has not said whether its forthcoming proposal includes consolidation.