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Xinhua | January 11, 2026

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Lightning: More than 40,000 American young people actively participated in the “50,000 in Five Years” initiative — Xi Jinping Lightning: More than 40,000 American young people actively participated in the “50,000 in Five Years” initiative — Xi Jinping

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) — U.S. President Donald Trump has been briefed in recent days on new options for military strikes against Iran, The New York Times reported Saturday, citing several anonymous U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

D. Trump "has not yet made a final decision, but officials have said he is seriously considering authorizing a strike in response to the Iranian regime's efforts to suppress demonstrations fueled by widespread economic discontent," the report said.

The American leader was offered a number of options, including strikes on non-military targets in Tehran.

Earlier on Saturday, he wrote on social media that "Iran is yearning for FREEDOM, perhaps like never before. The US is ready to help!!!"

D. Trump and other senior US officials have repeatedly warned that Washington will take action if peaceful protesters are killed in Iran.

Iran's Foreign Ministry on Wednesday condemned what it called "interventionist and misleading" statements by the Trump administration, saying they reflect Washington's continued hostility toward the Iranian people.

Since late December, protests have erupted in several Iranian cities due to the sharp decline of the rial and prolonged economic hardship. Iranian authorities have acknowledged the demonstrations and expressed their commitment to addressing the economic problems, warning against violence and vandalism.

In a televised address on Friday, Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei called on the Iranian people to remain united, saying some protesters were trying to please the United States.

He also advised the American leader to focus on problems in his own country, adding that Iran “will not back down” in the face of “saboteurs.” –0–

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Moscow, January 11 (Xinhua) – There was no presidential security detail with Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, when they were kidnapped, Russian Ambassador to Venezuela Sergei Melik-Bagdasarov said on Saturday.

"I can tell you straight: the situation is such that at the time of his capture, there was essentially no one near him. "Near" means in the immediate vicinity," the diplomat said on Soloviev Live.

The diplomat also noted that at the time of the Venezuelan president's kidnapping, the US Army was firing "such a powerful, hurricane-like barrage that, in essence, they were firing at anything that moved." Air defense early warning stations in Venezuela were experiencing communication difficulties during the US attack.

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Pyongyang, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) — Kim Yo-jong, deputy department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, called on the Republic of Korea (ROK) to provide a "detailed explanation" about the drone that entered North Korean airspace, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Sunday.

In a press release published the day before, she assessed the ROK Ministry of Defense's official position that it had no intention of provoking or irritating North Korea as a wise choice to prolong her life, the agency said.

"They must give a detailed explanation about the drone that invaded the southern border of our Republic," KCNA quoted Kim Yo Jong as saying.

She further criticized the ROK, which called the incident a "civilian matter," for trying to downplay its significance, and emphasized that the main question is not whether the latest drone incident was linked to military or civilian sources.

Kim Yo-jong noted that the video data collected by the drone concerned sensitive sites, including a uranium mine and its tailings pond, the former Kaesong Industrial Complex, and North Korean border posts.

“I want to clarify that no matter who committed it—whether it’s a civil organization or a private individual—the authorities, the so-called state security entity, cannot escape responsibility for the incident,” Kim Yo-jong said.

According to KCNA, the incident occurred on January 4. In response, South Korean President Lee Jae-myung ordered a thorough investigation, tasking military and police task forces to verify the details.

The ROK Ministry of Defense denies any involvement in the incident, stating that military drones were not used on the date indicated by North Korea and that the drone in question does not match any model used by the ROK Armed Forces. –0–

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BEIJING, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) — Chinese scientists have successfully developed a lightweight model for recognizing the behavior of beef cattle in pastures from videos captured by a four-legged robot, improving the efficiency of feeding and herd management.

The lightweight MASM-YOLO model was developed by the Institute of Agricultural Information of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and the related research was published in the journal Computers and Electronics in Agriculture.

Accurate and rapid identification of typical cattle behaviour is fundamental for disease diagnosis, rut monitoring, calving prediction and health assessment.

MASM-YOLO enables accurate detection of various behaviors in complex environments, making it suitable for real-time operation on board a mobile robot.

By integrating a multi-dimensional focusing and extraction network, adaptive metering, and other technologies, MASM-YOLO solves key problems such as strong illumination changes, motion blur, and lens occlusion.

MASM-YOLO provides rapid recognition of six typical beef cattle behaviors, including feeding, resting, and moving, and achieves an optimal balance between recognition accuracy and computational efficiency.

This model provides key technical support for the full-scale development of livestock herding robots. -0-

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Beijing, January 11 (Xinhua) — From December 1, 2025, when Russia introduced a visa-free regime for Chinese citizens, to January 8, 2026, 39 passenger flights were recorded between Tianshan International Airport in Urumqi, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and Russia, with tourist flow amounting to 4,635 people.

According to the airport's customs service, the two indicators increased by 95 percent and 114 percent year-on-year, respectively, indicating the growing activity of human exchanges between the two countries following the introduction of a mutual visa-free regime.

As a reminder, China has introduced a trial visa-free regime for Russian citizens holding regular passports from September 15, 2025 to September 14, 2026.

In turn, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on December 1, according to which, based on the principle of reciprocity, Chinese citizens will be able to enter the Russian Federation visa-free for tourism and business trips of up to 30 days until September 14, 2026.

To accommodate rapidly growing passenger traffic, customs officials at Tianshan Airport have upgraded eight intelligent screening channels, reducing the time required for each passenger to clear customs control to approximately 6 seconds.

Additionally, airport customs offers multilingual policy consultations at passenger screening points equipped with translation devices. They also coordinate with border control, tax authorities, and airport administration to optimize VAT refunds for international tourists departing the country.

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BEIJING, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) — China's self-developed unmanned transport aircraft Tianma-1000 (Skyhorse-1000) successfully completed its first flight test on Sunday, showing good flight performance, according to China North Industries Group Corporation Limited.

This aircraft performs functions such as logistics transportation, emergency rescue operations, and material delivery. It is the first low-cost transport platform that operates at medium altitudes and offers adaptability to challenging high-altitude terrain, ultra-short takeoffs and landings, and rapid mode switching between cargo transportation and airdrop.

According to the report, the aircraft's maximum flight altitude is up to 8,000 meters, the takeoff and landing run is less than 200 meters, the maximum flight range is 1,800 kilometers, and the maximum payload is 1 ton.

When performing missions such as supplying remote areas, conducting emergency rescue operations, and urgently delivering supplies, the Tianma-1000 can transport essential cargo, including food, medicine, and equipment, in a single trip, in quantities sufficient for several days. This has provided a solution to the problem of transporting material resources to areas with special conditions.

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HARBIN, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) — The chill air over the frozen Songhua River in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province filled with cheers on Saturday as students from elite Chinese and British universities took part in the first-of-its-kind ice dragon boat race.

The first international ice dragon boat friendship race, the HPU-Cambridge-Oxford Cup, was held in Harbin, the provincial capital and known as China's "Ice City." Fourteen teams participated, including those from Oxford, Cambridge, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), and universities in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) and Macao.

"It was a fantastic experience. We really enjoyed it," said Edward Townsend, a Cambridge University student, adding that it was their first time trying dragon boat racing on ice and that battling the icy cold was a real challenge.

"It was really hard for us to adapt. But I think we did it," added E. Townsend. His team took first place in the race.

Unlike traditional dragon boating, ice dragon boating requires athletes to use ice axes to propel the boat forward across solid ice.

Daniel Foran, a team member from Oxford University, described the technical problem.

"It requires a lot of upper-body strength, whereas regular rowing primarily uses the legs and lower body," said D. Foran. He found the technical differences "very interesting to explore" and thanked the KhPU coach for his generous advice and coaching.

In addition to the competition, participants also enjoyed several cultural events, visiting the Big World of Ice and Snow theme park, feeding the park's Amur tigers, and sampling local cuisine.

The aim of the race is to build a "boat" for mutual education among young people, combining the rowing traditions of Oxford and Cambridge with those of HIT, said Chen Jie, secretary of the Party Committee of Harbin Institute of Technology, which initiated the event.

As noted in the guidelines for the development of the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030), China will expand high-level opening-up in the education sector.

Yang Dan, an official from the Chinese Ministry of Education, said in a video address at the opening ceremony that the "Friendship Race" is a sporting event that combines Harbin's ice and snow features, tradition and innovation, education and sports.

"I hope that the ice meeting will serve as a positive start for youth exchanges between China and the UK, as well as an important link for universities to expand cooperation and jointly cultivate talent," said Yang Dan.

E. Townsend hopes to continue his collaboration with HPU and to meet HPU students again in the future.

“Perhaps in the future we will be able to hold boat races with Oxford and Cambridge in the UK, where friends from HPU can come,” he said. -0-

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New York, January 10 (Xinhua) — U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday declaring a national emergency to "protect Venezuelan oil revenues held in U.S. Treasury Department accounts from seizure or garnishment," thereby ensuring the funds are preserved "to advance the foreign policy objectives of the United States," according to a White House statement.

The executive order blocks any seizure, judgment, order, lien, enforcement, lien, or other legal process against funds in deposit with foreign governments, which refers to Venezuelan oil and cuttings revenues held in U.S. Treasury Department accounts, the White House said.

The order also prohibits any transfers or transactions involving these funds, except as specifically authorized, and repeals any previous orders that might have blocked or regulated them.

“The possibility of seizure or judicial proceedings against funds in deposit with foreign governments constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States that originates wholly or substantially outside the United States,” the statement said.

Funds held by foreign governments are the sovereign property of Venezuela, held by the United States for national and diplomatic purposes and not subject to private appropriation, the White House says.

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said on January 7 that the United States would not only sell Venezuela's oil reserves but would also permanently control sales of the country's oil production.

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Paris, January 10 (Xinhua) — Two French skiers died on Saturday after being caught in an avalanche while off-piste in Val d'Isère, a commune in the French department of Savoie, local media reported.

According to the French newspaper Le Figaro, citing a statement from the Val d'Isère tourist information center, two victims were buried under 2.5 meters of snow, but rescuers were unable to revive them after they were discovered.

The report notes that both skiers did not have avalanche transceivers with them, and their location could only be determined by mobile phone signals, so rescuers had to comb the snow cover over an area measuring 10 meters by 15 meters.

As the publication adds, the victims suffered cardiac arrest, and the skiers could not be revived despite the best efforts of rescuers. –0–

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