'Missing' Chinese foreign minister Qin Gang removed from office July 25, 2023 at 01:20AM

China's foreign minister Qin Gang was removed from office on Tuesday, state media reported. Qin had not been seen in public for a month, sparking rumors of scandal and political frictions. China's Global Times news portal said the country's top legislature convened a session where it was decided that Qin would be removed from his position as foreign minister. Wang Yi has been appointed as the new foreign minister.

The X factor: Meta, MS, hundreds more own trademarks to new Twitter name July 25, 2023 at 04:13PM

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Putin 'intends' to visit China in October July 25, 2023 at 06:45AM

President Vladimir Putin is planning to visit China in October, the Kremlin said Tuesday, as Russia aims to shore up ties with one of its closest allies. "It is known that we have received an invitation and that we intend to go to China when the Belt and Road Forum is held in October," Yuri Ushakov, an aide to the president on international affairs, said in comments carried by Russian news agencies.

Heat wave returns as Greece grapples with more wildfire evacuations July 25, 2023 at 06:23AM

A third successive heat wave in Greece pushed temperatures back above 40 C (104 F) across parts of the country on Tuesday following more nighttime evacuations from fires that have raged out of control for days. The latest evacuations orders were issued on the islands of Corfu and Evia, while a blaze on the island of Rhodes continued to move inland, torching mountainous forest areas, including part of a nature reserve.

Pakistan's Imran Khan will face fresh charges of contempt in August, his lawyer says July 25, 2023 at 05:18AM

Pakistan's election oversight body said on Tuesday it would indict the country's former Prime Minister Imran Khan next week on charges of publicly insulting its officials last year. Khan appeared before a special tribunal of the Election Commission of Pakistan along with his lawyers amid tight security in the capital, Islamabad.

Three Palestinians killed by Israel troops: Palestinian ministry July 24, 2023 at 11:06PM

Israeli troops killed three Palestinians in the occupied West Bank Tuesday, the Palestinian health ministry said, the latest deaths in a surge of violence in the territory since early last year.