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Pakistan's PM Shehbaz Sharif called Houthi attacks on Makkah a 'red line' at the UN, as Islamabad balances close ties with both Iran and Saudi Arabia

US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to create a bilateral communication channel for artificial intelligence incidents and establish the "US-China Super Intelligence Dialogue" following high-level summit talks in Washington

A US federal appeals court upheld the Department of Defense's decision to exclude AI startup Anthropic from its defense supply chain after the company refused to remove safety restrictions on its Claude AI model for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi presented a seven-day proposal at the UN General Assembly to lift the blockade on the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for a regional ceasefire and sanctions relief, but US President Donald Trump reportedly rejected the framework

US envoy David Perdue says Trump told Xi that any Chinese help to Iran, direct or indirect, is 'totally unacceptable'

NY Mayor Zohran Mamdani says Netanyahu's UN speech was full of "baseless lies" and that no lie can erase his ICC arrest warrant

Trump calls it a "truly great friendship" with Xi Jinping, but does China's leader agree? Inside the charm offensive at Xi's White House visit

Police in New York arrested Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon, Emmy winner Hannah Einbinder, and over 100 other demonstrators during a civil disobedience sit-in organized by Jewish Voice for Peace outside the United Nations as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepared to address the General Assembly

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian stated in a Fox News interview that Tehran does not wish to continue fighting and called on the United States to decide whether to end the war, while denying operational command over Yemen's Houthi forces

US President Donald Trump welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping to a lavish White House state dinner attended by prominent American technology executives, concluding a day of elaborate ceremonies

Rubio and Jaishankar discussed the Russia sanctions bill signed by Trump, as India reiterated its concerns over tariffs tied to Russian oil purchases

Netanyahu's UN address is expected to target New York Mayor Mamdani in a 'campaign speech' as Israel's election nears and no Trump meeting is planned

A US judge has blocked the White House ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico, ordering press access restored for 14 days

Chief executives from major artificial intelligence firms, including OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei, urged the UN Security Council to establish global oversight for frontier AI models, warning of loss-of-control risks even as the White House rejected international regulatory constraints

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that Washington has formally invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to attend the G20 Leaders' Summit in Miami this December, as the White House attempts to negotiate an energy ceasefire and advance broader peace talks between Moscow and Kyiv

In his final high-level climate summit before completing his nine-year tenure, UN Secretary-General António Guterres hailed the unstoppable rise of clean energy while demanding concrete roadmaps to transition away from fossil fuels amidst worsening global climate impacts

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Washington on Wednesday for a three-day state visit, urging bilateral cooperation with the United States and stating that the two major powers should be "partners rather than rivals" ahead of formal summit talks with US President Donald Trump

Harvey Weinstein was resentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting Miriam Haley in 2006, capping a years-long legal saga.

China's Xi heads to US for talks with Trump on AI, trade, Iran and Taiwan, as state media confirms his departure from Beijing

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met with US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, presenting Tehran's conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz