The southeast of Australia was sweltering in a heat wave on Sunday, raising the risk of bushfires and prompting authorities to issue fire bans for huge swaths of Australia's most populous state, New South Wales.

H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of Dubai Executive Council, launched the Dubai Economic Leadership Programme, which aims to prepare the next generation of competent Emirati talent to lead Dubai's vital sectors by enriching them with knowledge of the latest economic trends and expertise.

Over the last four years, China-Solomon Islands cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has achieved fruitful results, bringing profound benefits to both nations. In a recent interview with the Global Times, the first Chinese Ambassador to the Solomon Islands expressed confidence in the future cooperation between China and the Solomon Islands.

The success of the Belt and Road Initiative, joined by more than 150 countries, lies in "mutual benefits", Indonesia's Ambassador to China Djauhari Oratmangun said, pointing out that Jakarta has gained "fruitful outcomes" from such cooperation with Beijing.

Türkiye has expanded the scope of the ban on serving and selling alcohol and tobacco products, the country's official gazette said on Wednesday.

Tens of thousands of people marched in France on Saturday to protest police violence in demonstrations organized by the left, with clashes breaking out on the margins of the Paris rally.

China is holding the 2023 Conference of Global Public Security Forum from Tuesday to Thursday in Lianyungang, East China's Jiangsu Province, under the theme of "One World, Common Security."

Japan plans to strengthen the monitoring and analysis of information about the discharge of nuclear-contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the ocean and is seeking extra funding to step up public relations efforts at home and abroad.

The China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative continues to drive global development, and through it, the country has helped meet the vital needs of developing nations.

Since the weekend, Beijing has impressed observers with separate series of intense, high-level consultations with Washington and Moscow, one after another.

Negotiators for the United Auto Workers (UAW) and Ford Motor had "reasonably productive discussions" toward a new contract, the union said on Saturday, while officials at Chrysler parent Stellantis said a proposal to resume work at an idled Illinois factory has fallen through.

Pita Limjaroenrat, leader of Thailand's Move Forward Party (MFP), announced his resignatation on Friday.

On his extended trip to Russia, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea leader Kim Jong Un visited an aircraft factory on Friday, Sept. 15, where he inspected Russia’s most sophisticated fighter jet, the Su-57.

The total driving distance from Dhaka's commercial Motijheel district to the Bangabandhu Bangladesh-China Friendship Exhibition Center in the Bangladeshi capital's Purbachal new township under construction is approximately 35 km.

Russian President Vladimir Putin met with visiting top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong Un at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia's Far East on Wednesday, video footage released by the Kremlin showed.

The Japanese government and Tokyo Electric Power Company have been sued for discharging nuclear-contaminated water into the sea but they still plan further releases despite protests at home and abroad.

Russia will return to the Black Sea grain deal "the same day" if Moscow's conditions for export of its own grain and fertilizers to the global market are met, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Sunday.

The California Legislature has passed the country's first excise tax on firearms and ammunition, with the proceeds funding gun violence prevention and school safety programs.

Premier Li Qiang, who attended the East Asia Summit on Thursday in Indonesia as part of his six-day overseas trip, witnessed the final-stage trial run on Wednesday of the $7.3 billion Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway.

Seven remaining oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge were canceled on Wednesday by the Biden administration’s Department of Interior. The move overturns sales from the Trump administration’s last days, and includes proposals for stronger protections against development of huge swaths of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, 23 million acres of public land in Alaska overseen by the Bureau of Land Management.