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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has said that China is ready to work with India to implement the important consensus reached between the leaders of the two countries and properly handle sensitive issues.
Wang, who travelled to New Delhi to attend the BRICS NSAs’ conference, made the remarks during his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday, according to state-run Xinhua news agency.

Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi has assured his Iranian counterpart Eskandar Momeni that Islamabad would continue its efforts for lasting peace between Washington and Tehran, according to an official statement issued on Wednesday. Momeni arrived on Tuesday as part of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s delegation on a one-day visit.
The US and Iran last week signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at restoring peace in west Asia.

A shooting at a library in Northern California left two people dead and a suspect is in custody, according to police. Police responded to a 911 call soon after 5 pm Monday in which the sounds of gun shots and people screaming could be heard coming from inside the Chico branch of the Butte County Library, Billy Aldridge, the city’s chief of police, said during a news conference.

Millions of people across France woke up drenched in sweat on Tuesday after another night of scorching heat, with most of the population exposed to extreme and exceptional temperatures.

US President Donald Trump said “respect” from Iran would be key to sustaining peace after the end of the Iran-Israel war, expressing optimism about fully reopening the Strait of Hormuz to create “an oil gusher”.

Iran’s president arrived in Pakistan for talks Tuesday with officials mediating negotiations between Tehran and Washington on a permanent end to the war in the Middle East, even as discrepancies emerged on what had been agreed so far and violence broke out again in Lebanon.