BEIJING, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) -- Senior Chinese military official Zhang Shengmin on Tuesday met with visiting Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov in Beijing.Zhang, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, said China is ready to work with Russia to continuously strengthen strategic communication, better safeguard the two countries' respective sovereignty, security and development interests, and effectively safeguard world and regional peace and stability.Belousov said that Russia is ready to continue close coordination with China, strengthen strategic consultations, firmly support each other, expand practical cooperation in various fields, and push for more outcomes in the development of relations between the two countries and the two militaries.

The Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday that its forces launched an overnight strike on Ukrainian energy facilities.

Kremlin confirms trilateral talks on Ukraine in Abu Dhabi on Nov. 10-11

Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) said late Monday that its air defense systems had intercepted three U.S. drones in the country's southern airspace.

One Indian was killed and 13 others rescued after an attack on a commercial vessel off the Oman coast, India's foreign ministry said Tuesday.

BEIJING, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) -- Senior Chinese official He Lifeng held talks with Nguyen Thanh Nghi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee and secretary of the CPV Central Committee, in Beijing on Monday.The two sides exchanged views on topics such as economic relations between China and Vietnam, and bilateral economic and trade exchanges and cooperation.He, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said China is ready to work with Vietnam to jointly implement the important common understandings reached between the general secretaries of the two parties.He, also director of the Office of the Central Commission for Financial and Economic Affairs, said China is willing to maintain close strategic communication with Vietnam and deepen economic exchanges and mutual learning from each other's experience to advance the building of a higher-level China-Vietnam community with a shared future.Nguyen Thanh Nghi, also chairman of the CPV Central Committee's Commission for Policies and Strategies, said Vietnam is willing to work with China to strengthen the synergy of development strategies and cooperation in economy, trade and other fields, and push for greater progress in the relations between the two parties and the two countries.

The United States plans to suspend South Africa and Rwanda from duty-free trade benefits under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), with the suspensions taking effect on Jan. 1, 2027.