CIA Director Bill Burns secretly traveled to China last month.

Drug traffickers have found new ways of smuggling crystal methamphetamine, known as ice, out of South East Asia to high-paying customers outside the region, according to a UN report.

At least 207 people were killed and 900 injured when two passenger trains collided in Odisha on Friday, according to government officials in the eastern Indian state, in India’s deadliest rail accident in over a decade.

At least 30 people have been killed and hundreds injured in a multiple train collision in India last night.

Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s handling of relations with China.

Peru’s key copper projects are moving forward and the country is optimistic about remaining the world’s second-largest copper producer, its mining minister said on Thursday, fending off a rise in the ranks by the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Bank of China (601988.SS) chairman Ge Haijiao has travelled to Papua New Guinea (PNG)

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s government on Thursday said it would not hand over internal WhatsApp messages requested by a public inquiry.

Chilean President Gabriel Boric said on Thursday his government will insist on pushing through a tax reform bill that was shelved by Congress earlier this year.

The U.S. Senate will stay in session until it passes a bill to lift the government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said, as some members pushed him to allow amendment votes that risks delaying the process.

President Joe Biden tripped and fell after handing out the last diploma at a graduation ceremony at the U.S. Air Force Academy, but got up quickly and walked back to his seat.

The U.S. Supreme Court dealt another setback to organized labor by making it easier for employers to sue over strikes that cause property destruction in a ruling siding with a concrete business in Washington state that sued the union representing its truck drivers after a work stoppage.