Qatar to host emergency Arab-Islamic summit on Israeli attack

Qatar announced on Saturday that it will host an emergency Arab-Islamic summit on September 15 to discuss the recent Israeli attack on Doha.

Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed Al Ansari told Qatar News Agency that foreign ministers from Arab and Islamic countries will convene on Sunday to prepare a draft statement for the leaders' meeting.

Al Ansari stressed that the summit comes at a significant moment, reflecting Arab and Islamic solidarity with Qatar in confronting what he described as the "cowardly Israeli aggression" targeting the residences of several Hamas leaders in the Qatari capital of Doha.

He added that it also reflects these countries' categorical rejection of the "state terrorism" carried out by Israel.

Israel launched an unprecedented airstrike in Doha on Tuesday, targeting a building where Hamas officials were meeting to discuss the latest ceasefire proposal put forward by the United States.

Five members of Hamas and a Qatari security officer were killed during the strike, while key members of the Hamas negotiating team survived.

The attack drew swift condemnation from Qatar and other members of the international community.

China's outstanding aggregate social financing -- the total amount of financing to the real economy -- reached 442.12 trillion yuan (about 63.4 trillion U.S. dollars) as of the end of 2025, up 8.3 percent year on year, central bank data showed on Thursday.

The country's aggregate social financing stood at 35.6 trillion yuan (about 5.1 trillion U.S. dollars) in 2025, up by 3.34 trillion yuan (about 479 billion U.S. dollars) from the year 2024, said the People's Bank of China (PBOC), the country's central bank.

According to the data, the M2, a broad measure of money supply that covers cash in circulation and all deposits, increased 8.5 percent year on year to 340.29 trillion yuan (about 48.8 trillion U.S. dollars) as of the end of December.

In addition, outstanding yuan loans stood at 271.91 trillion yuan (about 39 trillion U.S. dollars) at the end of 2025, up 6.4 percent year on year.