MOSCOW - Lavrov also said he was ready to meet US Secretary of State Marco Rubio but that Russia's interests would have to be taken into account for there to be peace in Ukraine

SINGAPORE/BEIJING - When bank clerk Ren Yingxiao was looking for a honeymoon destination with her partner, they came across a scenic spot in the Xinjiang region that had it all - including a marriage registration office.

• Trump says tariffs on China cut to 47% from 57%
• Reprieve due to Xi's actions on fentanyl trade, Trump says
• China will pause latest rare earth export curbs for a year
• Summit in South Korea lasted nearly two hours
• Global markets shrug off hotly-anticipated meet

Prestigious JAINA Convention is all set to open in Chicago from July 03 to 06, 2025. Mr. Atul Shah, JAINA's first Vice President and Convention Convenor, along with Co-Convenors Mr. Vipul Shah and Mr. Jignesh Jain, have reported that over 4,500 individuals registered shortly after the launch of registration, with expectations to exceed 5,000 participants.

NRI Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old democratic socialist lawmaker, is on pace to win the Democratic primary for New York City mayor — a seismic shift in what normally would have been a sleepy reelection for the incumbent, Eric Adams, and one that involved toppling Andrew Cuomo’s political comeback. Mamdani won 43.5 percent of first-place votes to Cuomo’s 36.3 percent, according to the New York City Board of Elections.

WASHINGTON, June 22 (Reuters) - As Operation "Midnight Hammer" got underway on Saturday, a group of B-2 bombers took off from their base in Missouri and were noticed heading out toward the Pacific island of Guam, in what experts saw as possible pre-positioning for any U.S. decision to strike Iran. But they were a decoy. The real group of seven bat-winged, B-2 stealth bombers flew east undetected for 18 hours, keeping communications to a minimum, refueling in mid-air, the U.S. military revealed.

AHEMDABAD - An Air India airliner carrying 242 passengers and crew en route to the United Kingdom from India crashed shortly after takeoff in an area near the Ahmedabad airport. "The flight, which departed from Ahmedabad at 13:38 hrs, was carrying 242 passengers and crew members on board the Boeing 787-8 aircraft," the airline said in a statement posted on social media. "Of these, 169 are Indian nationals, 53 are British nationals, 1 Canadian national and 7 Portuguese nationals."

The U.S. will keep tariffs high on Chinese goods, President Donald Trump said Wednesday morning, touting a preliminary trade agreement that he and Chinese President Xi Jinping will need to approve. China will supply rare earth minerals and magnets “up front,” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform, although he didn’t clarify the exact terms. Trump also said, without explaining further, that “we are getting a total of 55% of tariffs, China is getting 10.”

 Ukraine attacked Russia with a series of drone strikes on military air bases deep in the Russian heartland on Sunday — an operation that appeared timed to influence a new round of Russian-Ukrainian ceasefire talks set to take place in Istanbul Monday. After more than three years of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, this carefully planned attack, intended to hit bombers that launch missiles on Ukrainian cities, was celebrated by Ukrainians, who called it "Operation Trojan Trucks" on social media.

US President Donald Trump said that he is doubling his tariff on steel to 50 percent, from 25 percent currently, to prevent billions of dollars worth of foreign steel from continuing to enter the United States. “At 50 percent, they can no longer get over the fence,” Trump said during a speech at a U.S. Steel facility in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, where he announced some details of a new “partnership” that will allow Japanese-owned Nippon Steel to acquire the iconic American company.