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The meetings hold significance as all the major countries besides India, China and Russia are also facing trade and tariff-related frictions with the 'unilateralist' US, said Chinese officials.

Five offspring of Sydney-born convicted terrorist Khaled Sharrouf, and three children of Islamic State group fighter Yasin Rizvic from Melbourne, will be repatriated, the PM said.

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted a map saying the US-made MQ9 Reaper drone — also widely used for carrying out military strikes — had entered his country's airspace on May 26.

The Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) comprising troops from countries bordering the lake - said one of its soldiers was killed and 10 others were injured.

The chants, often repeated since the 1979 Islamic revolution, came weeks after Trump said in a US television interview, 'They (Iranians) haven't screamed 'death to America' lately.'

By daybreak, police had cleared the streets of barriers set up by protesters to snarl traffic in the Asian financial center, and only a few groups in the mostly youthful crowd remained. Many slept outside the legislature.

Just five Asian countries — China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand — dump more than half of the eight million tonnes of plastic waste that end up in oceans every year.

The Communist Party's People's Daily said in an editorial on Saturday that the US wants to be a 'winner' in a trade war that they can't win.

Addressing a seminar by the CPEC Forum in Islamabad, Minister for Planning and Development Khusro Bakhtiar said industrial and agricultural development will be targeted in the next phase of CPEC.

June 21, the Northern Hemisphere's longest day, is celebrated as the International Yoga Day worldwide after the United Nations General Assembly adopted in 2014 a proposal mooted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

A driver, assistant driver and a guard were killed when a passenger train travelling to Lahore from the southern port city of Karachi hit a goods train.

Tehran said the unarmed Global Hawk surveillance drone was on a spy mission over its territory, but Washington said it was shot down over international airspace.

On Wednesday, international investigators charged three Russians and a Ukrainian, the first people to face justice over the catastrophe in eastern Ukraine in July, 2014.

Sri Lanka's former government borrowed heavily to rollout ports, highways and railroads, but several ambitious infrastructure projects ended up as white elephants and left the country facing a mountain of debt -- mainly to China.

Explosive strikes on two tankers in the Gulf of Oman last week fuelled tensions that flared with the US pullout last year from world powers' 2015 nuclear accord with Iran.

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