WINDHOEK, 13 October 2025 – Rubbish dumped in front of the City of Windhoek building. (Photo: Contributed)

WINDHOEK, 12 OCTOBER 2025 - Late John Savva, a respected Walvis Bay businessman and Honorary Consul for Cyprus and Greece. (Photo: Contributed) NAMPA

WINDHOEK, 10 OCTOBER 2025 - Botswana President Duma Boko (L) and President Netumbo Nandi Ndaitwah (R) at the conclusion of the second session of Namibia and Botswana Bi-National Commision at state house (Photo: Contributed) NAMPA

WINDHOEK, 10 October 2025 - MultiChoice Namibia on Wednesday launched a documentary film titled Netumbo: A Leader Beyond Politics, which chronicles the life and public service of President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah. (Photo by: Chelva Wells) NAMPA

(251013) -- CHANGSHA, Oct. 13, 2025 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Oct. 13, 2025 shows part of the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts on display at the Hunan Museum in Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan Province. Two volumes of Chinese silk manuscripts dating back about 2,300 years have been returned to central China, 79 years after they were smuggled out of the country, through cooperation between Chinese and the U.S. cultural institutions. The second and third volumes of the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts -- precious cultural artifacts dating back to the Warring States Period (475-221 B.C.) -- were on Monday officially repatriated to Hunan Province. They will be permanently archived in the Hunan Museum in Changsha, the provincial capital. The manuscripts, which were unearthed from a Chu-state tomb by tomb raiders at the Zidanku site in Changsha in 1942, consist of three volumes: "Sishi Ling," "Wuxing Ling" and "Gongshou Zhan." They are a systematic record of astronomy, calendars, cosmology and military divination from China's pre-Qin period. The silk manuscripts are the earliest examples of silk text discovered to date and the oldest classical Chinese book in the true sense. They were smuggled out of China in 1946. At the accession ceremony of the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts (Volumes II and III) on Monday, National Cultural Heritage Administration (NCHA) head Rao Quan said that the return of the manuscripts is a significant achievement of years of Sino-U.S. cultural and museum cooperation, and an example for international cooperation on artifact restitution. Through Sino-U.S. cooperation on the return of cultural property, the "Wuxing Ling" and "Gongshou Zhan" volumes were returned to China by the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Asian Art this year, arriving in Beijing on May 18. (Xinhua/Chen Zhenhai)

(251013) -- CHANGSHA, Oct. 13, 2025 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Oct. 13, 2025 shows part of the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts on display at the Hunan Museum in Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan Province. Two volumes of Chinese silk manuscripts dating back about 2,300 years have been returned to central China, 79 years after they were smuggled out of the country, through cooperation between Chinese and the U.S. cultural institutions. The second and third volumes of the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts -- precious cultural artifacts dating back to the Warring States Period (475-221 B.C.) -- were on Monday officially repatriated to Hunan Province. They will be permanently archived in the Hunan Museum in Changsha, the provincial capital. The manuscripts, which were unearthed from a Chu-state tomb by tomb raiders at the Zidanku site in Changsha in 1942, consist of three volumes: "Sishi Ling," "Wuxing Ling" and "Gongshou Zhan." They are a systematic record of astronomy, calendars, cosmology and military divination from China's pre-Qin period. The silk manuscripts are the earliest examples of silk text discovered to date and the oldest classical Chinese book in the true sense. They were smuggled out of China in 1946. At the accession ceremony of the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts (Volumes II and III) on Monday, National Cultural Heritage Administration (NCHA) head Rao Quan said that the return of the manuscripts is a significant achievement of years of Sino-U.S. cultural and museum cooperation, and an example for international cooperation on artifact restitution. Through Sino-U.S. cooperation on the return of cultural property, the "Wuxing Ling" and "Gongshou Zhan" volumes were returned to China by the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Asian Art this year, arriving in Beijing on May 18. (Xinhua/Chen Zhenhai)

(251013) -- WASHINGTON, Oct. 13, 2025 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Oct. 12, 2025 shows the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., the United States. The federal government shutdown entered its 12th day. (Xinhua/Li Rui)

(251013) -- WASHINGTON, Oct. 13, 2025 (Xinhua) -- A notice of closure is posted at the entrance of the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., the United States, Oct. 12, 2025. The federal government shutdown entered its 12th day. (Xinhua/Li Rui)