President Xi Jinping will gather more than 20 world leaders at a regional security forum in China next week in a powerful show of Global South solidarity in the age of Donald Trump while also helping sanctions-hit Russia pull off another diplomatic coup.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he wanted to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un this year and was open to further trade talks with South Korea even as he lobbed new criticisms at the visiting Asian ally.

Pakistan evacuated at least 150,000 people in areas along three rivers in its agricultural heartland under threat of flooding after neighbouring India warned it plans to release excess water from a dam, officials said on Tuesday.

President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that China’s ties with Russia are the “most stable, mature and strategically significant” among major world powers, state media reported.

A gunman opened fire on police Tuesday at a rural Australian property in a “horrific” confrontation that killed two officers and wounded a third.

The World Food Programme warned Tuesday that the aid Israel is allowing to enter Gaza remains a “drop in the ocean”, days after famine was formally declared in the war-torn Palestinian territory.

India’s Supreme Court has ordered an investigation into a wildlife rescue centre run by the philanthropic arm of billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s group, although it said the evidence did not support allegations of unlawful animal acquisitions and mistreatment.

An Israeli strike killed a man in southern Syria, state media reported Tuesday, a day after a new Israeli incursion in the area drew condemnation from Damascus.

"There needs to be justice. We haven't seen results or accountability measures yet."

Police said they were hunting for a man who had fled after the violent confrontation at a remote property in Porepunkah

Kokichi Akuzawa, who was born in 1923, summited Japan's highest peak after climbing a mountain on an almost weekly basis as part of his training.

Iran says Australia's decision to expel ambassador driven by internal affairs

Vantara, which bills itself as the "world's biggest wild animal rescue centre", is run by Anant Ambani

"I have determined that there is sufficient cause to remove you from your position," Trump wrote in a letter addressed to Cook

It is the first time Australia has expelled an ambassador since World War II.

"If you burn a flag, you get one year in jail, no early exits, no nothing," Trump said as he signed the order in the Oval Office.

The USDA has estimated a screwworm outbreak could cost the economy in Texas, the biggest U.S. cattle-producing state

China is increasingly sensitive about rare earths and its control over supply

Zambada, 77, cofounded the Sinaloa Cartel with notorious drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.

A $42.5 million pool of money has been set aside to share with publishers and is expected to grow over time