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Li Keqiang continues his first international tour as premier, arriving in Islamabad for discussions with the new leaders of Beijing's traditional South Asian ally, Pakistan. He is expected to meet Nawaz Sharif, the country's newly elected prime minister, and his talks may lead to the conclusion of a deal to sell a 1,000-megawatt nuclear reactor to the nuclear-armed nation. The reactor deal has raised concerns in Washington.

The Court of First Instance delivers its verdict in the horrifying case of a woman accused of sedating her five-year-old son and handing him over to a paedophile. The 32-year-old clerk, who cannot be named for legal reasons, denied at an earlier hearing one charge of conspiracy to commit buggery. The woman said she had given the boy sedatives to help him sleep.