US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will meet a top Chinese official in Hawaii on Wednesday in the powers' first senior-level talks since tensions skyrocketed over the coronavirus pandemic, reports said.
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President Emmanuel Macron has said that France had marked its first victory in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, ending much of its lockdown but adding that he would "draw the lessons" from a crisis that has killed nearly 30,000 people in the country.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was setting up a commission to look at "all aspects of inequality" following race protests across Britain.
Broadcasters, publishers and journalists called on the European Commission on Monday to implement "much stronger measures" to combat disinformation on internet platforms such as Google and Facebook.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will meet EU chiefs by video link on Monday to try to breathe new life into stalled post-Brexit trade talks, with both sides entrenched in long-held positions.
The death toll from a Saturday tank truck blast in east China's Zhejiang Province rose to 19, local authorities told a press conference yesterday morning.
Burundi held an extraordinary cabinet meeting on Thursday to discuss a way forward after the sudden death of long-serving ruler Pierre Nkurunziza left many anxious over the future of the troubled country.
Millions of children could be pushed into work by the coronavirus crisis, the UN said on Friday as it braced for the first rise in child labour in two decades.
More than 50 people, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa, died when a boat carrying migrants bound for Italy sank off Tunisia, a health official said on Thursday in an updated toll.
Total US layoffs caused by the coronavirus pandemic reached 44.2 million even as businesses try to reopen, and analysts warn of continuing damage to the world's largest economy as COVID-19 shows few signs of abating.
The population of rare Asiatic lions in India has jumped by nearly a third in the past five years to almost 700, an official survey said, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailing the increase as an "excellent feat".
Floods and mudslides in south China have uprooted hundreds of thousands of people and left dozens dead or missing, state media reported on Thursday.
The coronavirus has infected nearly two million people overall in the United States, and in the past 24 hours has caused 1,082 fatalities in the country, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University on Wednesday.
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. on Wednesday found no obstacles in its planned removal of radioactive fuel rods from the spent fuel pool of the No 2 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
North Korea warned the United States on Thursday not to meddle in inter-Korean relations if it wants to avoid experiencing an unspecified "hair-raiser" and hold November's presidential election smoothly.
The International Monetary Fund has approved a US$5 billion aid package for Ukraine aimed at helping the country "to cope with COVID-19 pandemic challenges," with an immediate release of $2.1 billion, the institution announced in a statement on Tuesday.
Russia has called on the United States to make a “positive" proposal as the powers open talks on a major disarmament treaty, warning that US insistence on including China could scuttle efforts.
 and Diana Guzman, Chair of Prudence Foundation and Chief Sustainability Officer, Prudential plc (second from left) at the launch of Talk It Out in Vietnam)
