As things stand 'there is a serious risk that Glasgow will not deliver,' warns UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, calling reports of progress 'an illusion'

With torrential downpours causing multiple landslides, some 200,000 residents were evacuated from Zhengzhou, which saw the equivalent of a year's rain in just three days

Communist Party also agrees to raise retirement age to keep more people in workforce and improve pension and health services for elderly

Beijing to invest $400 billion in Iran in exchange for oil, report says; agreement will strengthen military ties and may undermine US leverage in Middle East

Top Chinese diplomat Wang Yi arrives in Tehran to ink deal that will include investments in energy and infrastructure; final details not announced yet

Trump has blamed Beijing, where the coronavirus pandemic began in December, for mishandling the outbreak and allowing it to spread

The forced shuttering of Chinese mission in Houston and American mission of Chengdu marks a new low point in ties, and won't be easily smoothed over

Controversial book by ex-national security adviser says US president told Xi that building concentration camps for China's Muslim minority 'was exactly the right thing to do'

While 3,500-km frontier between the nuclear-armed giants sees regular skirmishes, no one has been killed in decades

Evaluation sought by a coalition of African, European and other nations, would review WHO's coordination of global response to COVID-19, but not origins of the new coronavirus