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President Trump met with China’s President Xi Jinping to address trade tensions. And, Trump’s Surgeon General nominee, Dr. Casey Means, faces questions today in her Senate confirmation hearing.

The operation draws a furious response in Lebanon, where a ceasefire ended a war with Israel last November.

Climate change caused one-third of India’s 2024 heatwave days, worsening health and economic losses.

President Donald Trump lowered his combined tariff rates on imports of Chinese goods to 47% after meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping Thursday.

Following the meeting between President Trump and his Chinese counterpart, NPR’s Leila Fadel asks former U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns about Trump’s relationship with Beijing.

A promised surge of Gaza aid hasn’t arrived since a fragile ceasefire began three weeks ago. Israel is now barring longtime relief groups, disrupting Save the Children’s decades of work there.

Some are warning of a genocide unfolding in Darfur – violence that is linked to killings there 20 years ago.

The US president and his Chinese counterpart met face-to-face for the first time in six years.

President Trump said he and Chinese leader Xi Jinping “agreed to almost everything” in their nearly two-hour meeting in South Korea, which Trump said was “friendly.”

The BBC’s Laura Bicker explains how the two nation’s have reported on the trade negotiations.

President Trump recently signed several rare earth agreements with Asian countries to reduce America’s reliance on China. Thin on details, the deals are unlikely to dent China’s dominance.

Negotiations between Pakistan and Afghanistan broke down Wednesday after both sides failed to resolve tensions that sparked violent clashes earlier this month.

Dr. Mihir Chaudhary, an American trauma surgeon, treated Palestinian detainees recently released by Israel. NPR’s Leila Fadel talks to him about his time in Gaza.
French police have arrested five new people, including a main suspect, over this month’s daring jewellery theft from the Louvre museum, the Paris prosecutor said on Thursday.

A South Korean court rules that the act’s contract with the label, which runs until 2029, is valid.
US President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to start nuclear weapons testing on a level with China and Russia – just minutes before opening a high-stakes summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

Soyinka, the first African to win the Nobel Prize in literature, believes his non-resident visa could have been rejected because he likened President Trump to a former Ugandan dictator.

It’s unclear how involved the U.S. would be or what the timeline for such a project would be.

Residents of Cortina, Italy, worry about the effects of the 2026 Winter Olympics on their town.

Rob Jetten’s D66 party takes a shock lead, two years after his party languished in sixth place in the last vote.