POLITICS

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres told countries gathered at the start of the COP27 summit in Egypt on Monday they face a stark choice: work together now to cut emissions or condemn future generations to climate catastrophe.

The Solomons -- a sprawling archipelago in the South Pacific -- has become a hotspot in a diplomatic tussle which sees the United States and Australia seeking to limit China's influence.

Scholz's one-day visit will test the waters between China and the West after years of mounting tensions, analysts say, with talks expected to touch on Russia's war on Ukraine, climate change and economic ties.

A predominantly Congolese Tutsi militia called the M23 has returned after years of dormancy, conquering swathes of territory in troubled North Kivu province.

The foreign ministers held a session on Ukraine on Thursday afternoon to kick off the two-day meeting in Muenster, held under Germany's G7 presidency.

De Fournas, a member of Marine Le Pen's National Rally (RN), and his party argued that he said nothing wrong.

The initial price itself has not been set, but should be in coming weeks, multiple sources said.

Washington wanted to see Russia and China do what they could to dissuade Pyongyang.

Scholz is the first G7 leader to visit China since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, which prompted the world's number two economy to largely close its borders.

The military, which seized power on September 5, 2021, has made the fight against corruption -- reputed to be endemic in the West African nation -- one of its key battles.

This small but strategic town in the Kharkiv region was seized by Moscow in March and fully occupied a month later.

EximBank, one of Beijing's three policy banks and Zambia's single largest Chinese creditor, is the linchpin in China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) that oversees infrastructure lending.

The shortages are worse than what the country experienced at the height of a civil war in 2013 and 2016.

Polls give Lopez Obrador's National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) a commanding lead in the presidential race, currently making the election appear a battle between the ruling party's own contenders.

Jordan Bardella is tipped to take over the chairmanship of Le Pen's Rassemblement National (RN) - the former National Front - when it holds its convention on Saturday.

A breakthrough agreement announced Wednesday between the federal government and Tigrayan regional authorities to cease hostilities has been hailed as "a welcome first step" by UN chief Antonio Guterres

Analysts say North Korean leader Kim Jong Un seems to genuinely dislike the allied drills, and particularly the involvement of U.S. stealth fighters.

Some of the cuts will come from capital markets teams in Hong Kong and mainland China, and most of the rest are expected to be from other teams focusing on China business, both onshore and offshore, the third source said.

"We have grown increasingly concerned about the potential as these months have gone on," said White House national security spokesman John Kirby.

In her first international trip since taking office, Meloni meets European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, European Council chief Charles Michel and European Parliament speaker Roberta Metsola.

The defence ministry justified the resumption by saying it had received guarantees from Ukraine that it would not use the Black Sea grain corridor for military operations against Russia.

It was under Netanyahu's government that Israel normalised relations in 2020 with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, and Morocco.

"President-elect Lula is committed," Kerry told reporters in Washington, pointing to Lula's efforts as president in the century's first decade on the environment.

White House National Security spokesperson John Kirby told a virtual briefing that North Korea was attempting to obscure the shipments by funneling them through countries in the Middle East and North Africa.

Twitter users have been watching closely to see whether Musk will reinstate Trump, banned for inciting last year's attack on the Capitol by a mob seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election, and other deplatformed users.

Activists say dozens have been killed and thousands arrested in a crackdown by the security forces who have been accused of firing on protesters at close range, bludgeoning them with batons and other abuses.

The Ukrainians have been trying to press a more recent counteroffensive past the Russian positions into areas around the Crimea peninsula the Kremlin seized in 2014.

The Ukrainians launched a lightning counteroffensive in September that cleared the Russians out of lands east of the 1.4-million-strong northern city of Kharkiv.

The advice was made by Fang Xinghai, vice chairman of China Securities Regulatory Commission, in a pre-recorded interview that was broadcast to a summit being held in Hong Kong.