Powerful storms that swept across India's northern Uttar Pradesh state this week killed at least 111 people, government officials said, raising an earlier death toll as more districts reported casualties.
China's Xi Jinping told President Donald Trump that trade talks were making progress at the start of a two-day summit on Thursday. The Chinese leader's remarks were reported by the official Xinhua news agency
Eight people infected in the hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship have tested positive for the Andes virus, the only strain transmitted between humans, the World Health Organisation said Wednesday.
President Donald Trump landed in Beijing accompanied by an entourage that included Nvidia's Jensen Huang and Elon Musk on Wednesday after pledging to urge China's Xi Jinping to "open up" to US business at the start of their two-day summit.
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on Tuesday the successful test of the latest Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile, with a range exceeding 35,000 kilometres.
Donald Trump is due in Beijing Wednesday for the first visit to China by a US president in nearly a decade. This week's trip -- the first since Trump visited in 2017 -- will involve high-stakes talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday and Friday
European Union foreign ministers reached an agreement on Monday on new sanctions targeting violent Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, as well as leading Hamas figures, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said.
Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit has condemned in the strongest terms the blatant Iranian attacks on the territories of the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, and the territorial waters of the State of Qatar.
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