US Secretary of State Antony Blinken held “candid” and “constructive” talks with China’s foreign minister in Beijing at the start of two days of meetings with Chinese officials, the US State Department has said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned there is a “serious danger” of NATO being drawn further into the Ukraine war if members of the alliance continue to supply military weaponry to Kyiv.

Britain’s King Charles celebrated his first official birthday parade as sovereign, riding on horseback to inspect soldiers in a ceremony that has been an annual event since 1760.

Tens of thousands marched through the streets of Warsaw to demand equality for LGBTQ people.

Twelve police were wounded on Saturday in clashes with demonstrators in France’s Savoie department where a protest against a high-speed rail project in the Alps turned violent, authorities said.

Some 1,500 villages were still without electricity in India’s western state of Gujarat, officials said, as coastal areas recovered from the impact of this week’s cyclone Biparjoy.

President Joe Biden made his 2024 re-election pitch to union members in Philadelphia in his first political rally since launching his campaign in April, aiming to shore up a key part of his political coalition and bolster support among white working-class voters.

Months after a grand jury declined to indict eight police officers in Akron, Ohio, who shot dead Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black man, his family is seeking at least $45 million in a federal lawsuit – $1 million for each bullet that hit him, the lawsuit says.

Russian President Vladimir Putin gave African leaders seeking to mediate in the war in Ukraine a list of reasons why he believed many of their proposals were misguided, pouring cold water on a plan already largely dismissed by Kyiv.

Police in Minneapolis routinely use excessive force and discriminate against Black and Native American people, the U.S. Justice Department said after a two-year investigation prompted by the police killing of George Floyd.

A dangerous heat wave that helped spawn deadly tornadoes in Texas and Florida threatened to bring more extreme weather to the U.S. South, prompting the National Weather Service to warn Americans to limit time outdoors over the long Juneteenth weekend.

Iowa’s highest court did not revive a 2018 ban on most abortions, meaning that abortion will remain legal in the state up to 20 weeks of pregnancy for now.