Beijing is using this week's China International Supply Chain Expo as a forum to boost its image as the global defender of free trade

"At President Trump’s direction, I am launching a Section 301 investigation into Brazil’s attacks," he added in a statement.

Some 22% of wetlands, both freshwater systems such as peat lands, rivers and lakes, and coastal marine systems including mangroves and coral reefs, have disappeared since 1970

This is significantly below the 32 percent level the president earlier threatened

The UN rights office said yesterday it had recorded at least 875 killings within the past six weeks at aid points in Gaza run by the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and convoys run by other relief groups, including the United Nations.

US President Donald Trump yesterday announced a trade deal with Indonesia, the latest pact in a bid to cement better terms with trading partners and reduce a massive trade deficit, even as the European Union readied retaliatory measures should talks between Washington and its top trading partner fail.

A Pakistan court yesterday ordered a government probe into allegations that young people are being entrapped in online blasphemy cases, following appeals from hundreds of families.

US President Donald Trump appears to be losing patience with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, voicing disappointment on Monday just hours after threatening “severe tariffs” against Russia.

The UN warned yesterday that mass displacement in the West Bank had hit levels not seen since the start of Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territory nearly 60 years ago.

Britain set up a secret scheme to relocate thousands of Afghans to the UK after a soldier accidentally disclosed the personal details of more than 33,000 people, putting them at risk of reprisals from the Taliban, court documents showed yesterday.

A drone strike forced a US company to suspend operations at an oil field in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region yesterday, the latest in a string of attacks targeting the region’s energy infrastructure.

Israel’s military said it was striking targets belonging to Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force in eastern Lebanon yesterday, the latest attack despite a ceasefire between Israel and the Iran-backed militant group.

A preliminary report, issued Saturday by India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau, found that the switches had flipped from run position to cutoff shortly after takeoff.

From lift-off to impact: What happened on Air India flight 171 in the final seconds before its crash in western India

The three liberal justices on the nine-member panel dissented.

That marked an increase of one percentage point and a million more children covered than a year earlier, in what the agencies described as "modest" gains.

The US and Mexico first struck an agreement in 1996 to regulate Mexican tomato exports and address US complaints of unfair competition.

Trump said he was "very, very unhappy" with Vladimir Putin

In a report published Monday, the United Nations said that 35 percent of the objectives were advancing, while around half had stagnated and the rest were heading backwards

The country's leadership is fighting a multi-front battle to sustain growth, a challenge made more difficult by US President Donald Trump's tariff campaign