When U.S. President Donald Trump meets ChinesePresident Xi Jinping this week he is expected to ask for help resolving his costly and unpopular war with Iran.

Britain’s grand parliament opening ceremony ‌does not normally feature an elephant.

Russian forces have launched attacks in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk ‌region, killing at least six people, after the expiry of a US-mediated ceasefire.

Saudi Arabia launched numerous, unpublicized strikes on Iran in retaliation for attacks carried out in the kingdom during the Middle East war, two Western officials briefed on the matter and two Iranian officials said.

A year ago, U.S. President Donald Trump predicted that towering trade tariffs would bring America’s main economic rival to heel.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday ​he does not think he will need China’s help to end the war with Iran, even as hopes for a lasting peace deal ‌dwindled and Tehran tightened its grip over the Strait of Hormuz.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer defied calls to resign on Tuesday, telling ministers he would get on with ​governing despite a “destabilising” 48 hours of growing calls to set out a timetable for his departure after a drubbing in local elections.

A Dutch hospital has quarantined 12 staff members as a preventive measure after blood and urine from a hantavirus patient were handled without observing strict ​protocols, as medics around the world work to stop the spread of the outbreak.

Federal prosecutors in the United States have filed criminal charges against the owner and operator of the cargo ship Dali.

French health officials are contacting and testing more than 20 people who may have been exposed to a person infected with hantavirus. Some are also being isolated in hospital as a precaution.

Hospitals in Haiti’s Cite Soleil evacuated their patients and aid group MSF suspended its activities there ‌as fighting between armed groups operating in the area that began a fortnight ago deteriorated over the weekend.
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MSF, or Doctors Without Borders, said hundreds of residents sought refuge in its hospital in the neighborhood – an impoverished part of the capital Port-au-Prince – where one of its security guards was shot by a ​stray bullet while inside the compound.

The U.S. government on Monday announced sanctions against three people and ​nine companies, including four based in Hong Kong and four in the United Arab Emirates, for ‌aiding Iran’s shipment of oil to China. The ninth company is based in Oman.