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"Currencies will remain a national issue for a long time to come," India's Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar said amid speculations of Russia, China and other BRICS nations planning an alternative to dollar.

A harsh anti-America commentator in China was called a hypocrite on Chinese social media after he was seen attending a Fourth of July event at the U.S. Embassy.

Experts are concerned about the impact of a potential conflict between the U.S. and China over Taiwan, urging the two world leaders to hold talks.

China's commerce ministry on Thursday said recent curbs on essential chip-making metals were not aimed at any specific country and that they did not represent a "ban on exports".

Former President Dmitry Medvedev suggested that Russia could use its nuclear weapons to end the war in Ukraine, which has been going on for more than 16 months.

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is due to arrive in Beijing on Thursday, kicking off a high-level visit aimed at improving communication and stabilizing the tense relationship between the world's top two economies.

The Philippines is buying more supersonic BrahMos missiles from India and the navies are countries' militaries are deepening their own ties.

A former British Army officer believes China would turn its back on Russian President Vladimir Putin if he used tactical nuclear weapons in the Ukraine war.

"Given China's outsized role in adding to carbon pollution, it needs to move away from coal power-- fast. Yet when clean power runs short, including when climate-fueled drought shuts hydropower plants down, China falls back on coal. To succeed at emissions reduction, China needs to break that cycle," climate risk expert Alice C. Hill told IBT.

"The move, in the present context seems to indicate that Delhi is willing to go further in its messaging to China. This comes after India had already decided to send Indian warships in area while the two navies regularly exercise," said Frédéric Grare, a senior policy fellow with the Asia Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is set to visit Beijing this week, the United States said Sunday, marking the second trip by a cabinet official to China since ties between the world's top two economies deteriorated earlier this year.

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in an interview that aired Wednesday she hopes to travel to China to "reestablish contact" with Beijing despite differences between the two countries.

The boy, who was not identified by media, claimed he was kicked by the coach shortly before his death.

French military officials clarified that the mysterious trails in the sky spotted earlier this week were produced by a test flight of its hypersonic weapon.

A prominent Chinese financial journalist who has compared the country's economic problems to the Great Depression has been banned from social media.

"Europe-wide, Switzerland is one of the states in which the most Russian intelligence personnel are deployed under diplomatic cover, including due to its role as a host country for international organizations," said Switzerland's main intelligence agency, the Federal Intelligence Service (FIS).

Becoming a "full-time daughter" is among the alternatives for younger people gaining popularity in China amid a fierce job market.

Experts say Putin's failure to keep Yevgeny Prigozhin in check makes Russia's power structure appear weak to Chinese President Xi Jinping.

The radical differences in how Beijing and Washington perceive the new geopolitical landscape are most pronounced in the South China Sea.

The Group of Seven countries affirmed their unity and stressed the need for close coordination in dealing with China, the U.S.

The European Union executive on Tuesday launched its bid to convince the bloc's 27 member states to agree to stronger controls on exports and outflows of technologies that could be put to military use by rivals like China.