US President Joe Biden on Sunday expressed disappointment that Chinese leader Xi Jinping would not attend the G20 summit in India this week, as Washington seeks to repair relations with Beijing. Asked about Xi reportedly not planning to join the gathering in New Delhi, Biden told reporters, “I am disappointed, but I am going to مزید پڑھیں

Taiwan woke up Monday to toppled trees, floods, and persistent rainfall after Typhoon Haikui made landfall on the island and swept overnight across its central mountain ranges. Haikui initially appeared to leave the island but made a second landfall early on Monday in southwestern Kaohsiung, before it was downgraded to a severe tropical storm. There مزید پڑھیں

Residents of Khartoum awoke on Sunday to artillery and rocket fire, hours after an air strike in the city’s south killed at least 20 civilians including two children, according to Sudanese activists. “The death toll from the aerial bombardment” in southern Khartoum “has risen to 20 civilian fatalities,” according to a statement by the neighbourhood’s مزید پڑھیں

Israel officially opened its embassy in Bahrain on Monday, three years after both sides normalised ties and as Washington presses Riyadh for a similar deal that would be Israel’s biggest diplomatic win in the region. Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen attended an official ceremony for the opening of the diplomatic mission during a visit to مزید پڑھیں

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin met in Russia’s coastal city of Sochi for talks. Reviving last year’s historic Black Sea grain deal that helped ease global food crisis was on the agenda between the leaders, who later held a joint news conference. According to international media reports, during his day-long مزید پڑھیں

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says an independent inquiry has found “no evidence” for claims that his country supplied weapons to Russia. According to international media reports, the United States ambassador to South Africa, Reuben Brigety, had claimed the Russian ship Lady R was loaded with arms and ammunition at a naval base near Cape مزید پڑھیں

Gunmen have killed seven worshippers and injured three others in two separate attacks on mosques in northwest Nigeria’s Kaduna state, police said Saturday. According to international media reports, suspects from criminal gangs – referred to as bandits – opened fire on worshippers in Saya-Saya community in Ikara district during evening prayers, killing six people, Kaduna مزید پڑھیں

The situation in the region is still tense. Despite Azerbaijan’s desire for peace and stability in the region, the Armenian authorities and the Karabakh separatists, including their patrons around the world, are doing everything they can to increase tensions. Despite its heavy defeat in the Second Karabakh War, Armenia continues its provocations. Armenian Prime Minister مزید پڑھیں

The Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF) has taken delivery of a batch of advanced Russian-made Yakovlev Yak-130 pilot training aircraft, which have the characteristics of 4th and 5th generation fighter jets. Images circulating on social media showed one of the light attack training jet parked at a hanger, with IRIAF logo printed on مزید پڑھیں

Pope Francis appeared to seek to reassure China on Saturday, using a gathering of Catholic missionaries in Mongolia to state that governments had “nothing to fear” from the Catholic Church. The comments came during the first papal visit to the young democracy sandwiched between China and Russia, where the 86-year-old pontiff has hoped not only مزید پڑھیں