THE WORLD, in brief
China’s exports rose 35.2% and imports 41.6% in October, both above forecasts, while the monthly trade surplus narrowed to $105.3 billion.
A fire at Haosheng International Apartment in Taiyuan’s Yingze District on Sunday killed 14 people, local authorities said on Monday via Xinhua. Twenty-five people remained in hospital, nine of them critically injured and four seriously hurt. The blaze in the mixed-use high-rise was extinguished after about two hours; the cause is under investigation.
Joshua Wong, the 30-year-old activist who became the face of Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests, was sentenced on Thursday to 10 years in jail for colluding with foreign forces under the city's national security law. Wong, who has already spent six years in prison and was due to be freed in January, pleaded guilty in September.
Chinese robotics company AgiBot has set a Guinness World Records title for the most humanoid robots dancing simultaneously. On 24 October, 110 of its full-size Expedition A3 humanoids danced together for 5 minutes and 43 seconds at the Yellow River International Convention and Exhibition Center in Jinan, Shandong province, and a Guinness adjudicator confirmed the count and presented a certificate on site.
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