German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron exchanged views on European Union-China relations with China’s President Xi Jinping in a video conference on Monday, Merkel’s office said. The three leaders discussed international trade, climate protection and biodiversity and threw their support behind an EU-China investment agreement. President

   The top diplomats of Vietnam and Egypt pledged to expand all-around cooperation between the two countries during a phone call on Monday. Vietnam’s FM Bui Thanh Son and his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Hassan Shoukry agreed to resume exchanges of delegations at all levels, closely coordinate on issues of shared

Senior Party members on Tuesday looked into the implementation of the medium-term plans for socio-economic development, national finance, public investment in the 2016 – 2020 period, and draft plans until 2025. Delegates at the 13th Party Central Committee’s third session also discussed draft working regulations of the Party Central Committee,

 There are no survivors after a plane carrying 28 people crashed in the far east of Russia on Tuesday, Russian news agencies cited rescue officials as saying. The An-26 aircraft was en route from the regional capital Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to Palana, a village in the north of the Kamchatka peninsula, when