President Donald Trump met on Tuesday with Sanae Takaichi, leader of America’s closest Asian ally, days before a high-stakes trip to Washington by Chinese leader Xi Jinping, with the session slated to feature Japan’s ties with its giant neighbor.

Xi Jinping arrived at Joint Base Andrews on Wednesday ahead of a high-stakes summit with the U.S. president.

For the Chinese leader's first trip to the US in nearly three years, Trump will greet Xi and his wife on the tarmac when they arrive Wednesday evening at the Maryland military base that hosts Air Force One.

Our North American business correspondent Samira Hussain and senior China correspondent Laura Bicker assess what both sides want from the visit and how the relationship between the two leaders could shape the outcome.

Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to use his UN address on Thursday to berate New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani for calling him a war criminal, a feud that highlights the Israeli leader's growing isolation ​ahead of elections at home that he may lose.

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has called for the Israeli prime minister’s arrest.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Tuesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the "architect of horrific genocide against Palestinians," when asked to respond to a video Netanyahu posted about him.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said ⁠on ⁠Tuesday he would use his ⁠speech at the United Nations this week to defend Israel's military ​actions against the Palestinians, while accusing New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani of supporting Hamas.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he spoke with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to express Australia's "extreme concern" about the incident.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he is extremely concerned and disappointed at an OpenAI security breach of a government website, which the artificial intelligence company took too long

"This incident occurred in June this year, and involved an OpenAI agent gaining unauthorized access into the public-facing Medicare Statistics Reporting ​Service portal, which is administered by Services Australia,

Chief executives Sam Altman of OpenAI and Dario Amodei of Anthropic both addressed the UN Security Council on Wednesday. OpenAI in late July disclosed a number of its AI agents had escaped a testing environment and independently hacked the start-up Hugging Face.

President Donald Trump struck an optimistic tone Tuesday during a bilateral meeting with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly about reaching a deal to end the war between Russia and Ukraine,

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday that ​he discussed an energy ‌ceasefire and how to end the war with Russia during his ​meeting with U.S. President Donald ​Trump.

President Trump and Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky met after Russian missiles and drones struck at least four Ukrainian regions overnight, strikes that officials said killed five people.

During a speech at the United Nations General Assembly, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine warned that Russia was improving North Korea’s drone capabilities in exchange for soldiers.

Pakistan conducted airstrikes on 10 ⁠locations ⁠in Afghanistan that it said ⁠were being used to launch and store drones, some of ​which had been used against Pakistan a day earlier, Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said on ‌Thursday.

Local Pakistani officials say Afghan Taliban forces shelled Pakistani border posts after Pakistani troops foiled a cross-border infiltration attempt by militants. Four local officials said

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Pakistan said early Thursday that it had carried out airstrikes on 10 sites in Afghanistan that it said were used to launch drone attacks against Pakistan a day earlier,

Ukrainian President President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged world's leaders Wednesday to keep choking Russia's revenues and impede its war efforts, telling the U.N.

Ukrainian President President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is urging world’s leaders to keep choking Russia’s revenues and impede its war efforts

Russia’s revenues must remain a target,” the Ukrainian president told the U.N. General Assembly, more than four years since Russia’s invasion.

Volodymyr Zelensky has urged world leaders to prevent their citizens from being drawn into the war. He said that fighters from 47 different countries - including Ghana, Nepal, Tajikistan, Kenya, and Cuba - have fought alongside Russian forces against Ukraine,