US President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping met for about four hours on Wednesday to discuss issues ranging from military conflicts to drug-trafficking. Here’s the key issues discussed.

The first meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and United States President Joe Biden this year is a positive signal that the two superpowers want to improve their working relationship, analysts have said.

Israeli troops yesterday advanced in their campaign to destroy Hamas in Gaza, fighting gun battles and taking control of a key port a day after a raid on the territory’s main hospital.

US President Joe Biden said early yesterday he had not changed his view that Chinese President Xi Jinping was effectively a dictator, a comment likely to land with a thud in Beijing after the two leaders held straightforward summit talks.

The ongoing conflict and violence in the Gaza strip has led to a feeling of hopelessness across the world. The death of over 11,000 Palestinians and 1,200 Israelis comes amid blood curdling calls for violence from both sides, and a shocking apathy from the world's leadership to bring it to an end

Israeli leaflets tell Gazans to leave four towns east of Khan Younis.Thousands more Palestinians were fleeing from the embattled north to the south along a perilous frontline path after Israel told them to evacuate.Israel says troops still at Shifa hospital, no further details.

A majority of Labour Party MPs, including British-Bangladeshi Tulip Siddiq and Rushanara Ali, abstained from voting on a motion placed at the UK House which demanded that the government call for a ceasefire in Gaza, reports The Independent

The UN today adopted a resolution calling upon Myanmar to address the root causes of the Rohingya crisis and create conducive environment in Rakhine to facilitate voluntary, safe, and dignified return of the refugees to their homeland.

China is "ready to be a partner and friend of the United States," President Xi Jinping told US business leaders on Wednesday, as concerns mount over the country's slowing economy

The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday called for urgent and extended humanitarian pauses in fighting between Israel and Palestinian Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip for a "sufficient number of days" to allow aid access

US President Joe Biden said after a summit with Xi Jinping Wednesday that he still considers the Chinese president a "dictator", after he sparked fury from Beijing by making the comparison earlier this year

US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping shook hands Wednesday and pledged to reduce tensions as they met for the first time in a year at a high-stakes summit in California

Israeli soldiers yesterday raided and combed through Gaza's main hospital in an offensive against Hamas, raising fears for thousands of patients and other civilians trapped inside.

US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping shook hands early today and pledged to reduce tensions as they met for the first time in a year at a high-stakes summit in California.

Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere hit new record highs in 2022, with no end in sight to the rising trend, the United Nations warned yesterday.

The United States and China will back a new global renewables target and work together on methane and plastic pollution, they said in a joint statement yesterday after a meeting to find common ground ahead of COP28 talks in Dubai later this month.

American forces deployed in Iraq and Syria have been attacked 55 times over the past month, causing minor injuries to dozens of US troops, the Pentagon said Tuesday.

Up to 200 Rohingyas landed in Indonesia’s Aceh province yesterday, the head of the province’s fishing community said, in the second batch of Rohingya arrivals by boat this week.

Russia has conceded for the first time that some Ukrainian forces have crossed onto the River Dnipro’s eastern bank, but has said they face “Hell fire” and that the average life expectancy of a Ukrainian soldier there is around two days.

Israeli forces, some wearing facemasks and firing guns into the air, raided early yesterday Gaza’s biggest hospital which was packed with thousands of Palestinian patients and displaced people, in the army’s battle against Hamas.