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President Xi Jinping met his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday, urging "political mutual trust" between the two sides during a regional security meeting in Central Asia.Xi and Erdogan met on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation ..

A bronze statue of Queen Elizabeth II sitting astride a horse marks the entrance to Ottawa's Rideau Hall, a nod to a head of state and equestrienne who continued to ride well into her tenth decade. Canada was one of 15 sovereign states of which ..

US President Joe Biden has confirmed he is planning to attend the Queen's funeral when it takes place in the UK. While no formal plans for Her Majesty's funeral have been announced yet, the ceremony is expected to take place within 10 days ..

President Xi Jinping sent a message of condolences on Friday to British King Charles III over the death of Queen Elizabeth II.On behalf of the Chinese government and people and in his own name, Xi expressed deep condolences over the death of Queen El..

The prime minister of New Zealand has told how she was woken at 5am by a police officer shining a torch into her bedroom to tell her the news of the Queen's death. Jacinda Ardern's anecdote, and subsequent heartfelt tribute to Her Majesty, ..

Chengdu has extended a Covid-19 lockdown in most areas, hoping to stem the spread of the virus.The provincial capital of Sichuan had been under lockdown in the past week, and the measure was expected to be lifted on Wednesday. But officials said the ..

A total of 74 people have died and 26 remain missing after a 6.8-magnitude earthquake jolted Luding County in southwest Sichuan Province on Monday, local authorities said on Wednesday.In addition, 259 people have been injured in the disaster as of Tu..

It's easy to lose sight of the scale of loss in Pakistan. Even as we travel by boat through the heavily-hit Dadu district in Sindh Province, I struggle to comprehend what lies beneath the water. But we soon hear the horrendous stories of a comm..

UN nuclear experts have given their assessment of the safety situation at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia power plant - and say its "physical integrity" has been "violated" amid weeks of fighting nearby. Both Russia and Ukraine blame each other f..

Russia's Gazprom has said natural gas supplies to Europe via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline will remain shut off. It comes after G7 finance ministers agreed to impose a price cap on Russian oil exports in an effort to limit funding for President Vla..

Sichuan province accounted for 128 of the 318 locally-transmitted Covid-19 cases reported on the mainland on Thursday.The provincial capital of Chengdu on Thursday announced a lockdown of its 21 million residents and four days of citywide testing. Re..

Astronauts of the Shenzhou-14 spaceship have conducted extra-vehicular activities for the first time.According to the China Manned Space Agency, astronauts Chen Dong and Liu Yang exited the space station lab module Wentian for their first spacewalk, ..