However, Xi did not comment on his discussions with Trump about Iran

The United States plans to indict Cuba’s Raul Castro, a US Department of Justice official said late on Thursday.

Thailand’s parliament yesterday revived a law that would enshrine the right to breathable air and tax emitters, setting up a final vote in the senate on the landmark legislation.

Ukrainian drones killed four people, including a child, in the central Russian city of Ryazan yesterday, damaging high-rise apartment buildings and hitting an unnamed industrial enterprise, the regional governor said.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israeli forces now control 60 percent of the Gaza Strip, suggesting troops have expanded into more of the Palestinian territory than set out in an October ceasefire plan.

Indian billionaire industrialist Gautam Adani has agreed to pay a multi-million-dollar settlement in a US civil court case linked to corruption without admitting guilt, his company said yesterday.

For weeks before US President Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing, his administration pressed China to lean on Iran amid negotiations for a peace deal.

US President Donald Trump left China yesterday without major breakthroughs on trade or tangible help from Beijing to end the Iran war, despite spending two days praising his host, Xi Jinping.

Iran yesterday said it had “received messages” from the United States expressing willingness to continue talks, as US President Donald Trump urged Tehran to accept a deal soon to end the war in the Middle East.

Egyptian authorities on Thursday exhibited a plaster blocking wall of King Tutankhamun’s tomb in Luxor and unveiled two restored ancient tombs on the West Bank of the city that date back to the New Kingdom and contain scenes of daily life and funerary rituals.

No immediate damage or abnormalities at nuclear plants in Miyagi and Fukushima

Trump considers lifting sanctions on Chinese oil firms buying Iranian crude

Also signs pacts on strategic petroleum reserves and supply of liquefied petroleum gas

The orders, if finalized, would mark Boeing's first major Chinese deal in nearly a decade

Araghchi spoke a day after US President Donald Trump said Xi Jinping had offered China's help to reopen the Strait of Hormuz

Xi agreed to purchase '200 big' Boeing jets, Trump tells Fox News

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel Foreign Minister Gideon Saar have ordered initiation of a defamation lawsuit

Says after Israel demanded it as a goal

At least five soldiers and seven militants were killed in clashes in Pakistan’s turbulent south-western province of Balochistan, officials said yesterday.

Britain’s health minister Wes Streeting yesterday announced that he had resigned, paving the way for him to launch a leadership challenge against embattled Prime Minister Keir Starmer.