Chinese leaders and senior EU officials hold a video summit Monday with tensions rising over new tariffs targeting Chinese firms and European disquiet at Beijing's assertiveness on the world stage.
North Korea has millions of propaganda leaflets ready to send to the South by an aerial armada of balloons, it said Monday, heightening its rhetoric against Seoul after blowing up a liaison office.
Donald Trump's presidency was in turmoil on Thursday after top ex-aide John Bolton declared him unfit for office in a bombshell book and the Supreme Court blocked a key part of his re-election vow to deport undocumented migrants.
DR Congo's military is receiving weapons and training from multiple countries without notifying the United Nations as required by a 2004 resolution, according to a recent report to the Security Council.
Australia's prime minister said on Friday his country was under a broad cyberattack from a "state-based actor" targeting government, public services and businesses, but declined to name the culprit.
EU leaders launch fraught negotiations on Friday on a major recovery fund to revive a European economy ravaged by the coronavirus outbreak, deeply divided on the way forward.
A Paris court will give its verdict on Wednesday in a trial on money laundering charges for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's uncle, who amassed a fortune in France over several decades.
African countries are pushing for the UN's top rights body to launch a high-level investigation into "systemic racism" and police violence in the United States and beyond, according to a draft resolution introduced on Tuesday.
Beijing shut all its schools again on Wednesday as the city reported 31 new coronavirus cases, with authorities in the Chinese capital rushing to curb an outbreak linked to a wholesale food market.
North Korea threatened on Wednesday to bolster its military presence at now-shuttered inter-Korean project sites and rebuild guard posts in the Demilitarized Zone, a day after it blew up its liaison office with Seoul, sharply raising tensions on the peninsula.
President Donald Trump said on Monday he will halve the number of US troops in Germany because Berlin is "delinquent" in contributions to NATO and treats the United States "badly" on trade.
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.
