The Group of Friends of the Global Development Initiative on Tuesday called on the international community to uphold the United Nations' central coordinating role in international development cooperation and promote inclusive and balanced development partnerships.

The number of confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) has surpassed 2,000, reaching 2,011, including 754 deaths, according to a situation report released by the country's health authorities.

Thailand's cabinet has approved a further revision of Thailand's visa-exemption measures and visa privileges to prevent misuse of visa privileges, a government spokesperson said on Tuesday.

Hundreds of French firefighters on Tuesday managed to contain two fires that have burned over 2,000 hectares of the historic Fontainebleau forest near Paris over the last two days.

A record-smashing heat wave was spreading Tuesday from the West toward the East Coast, placing nearly 100 million Americans under heat alerts.

The Iranian army said early Wednesday that it had launched drone strikes on a U.S. military base and strategic centers in Jordan.In a statement published on its website, the army said the attacks were in retaliation for frequent "anti-Iran aggressions" by the U.S. side.Iran's kamikaze drones

The British government on Tuesday unveiled new online safety measures that would introduce a default overnight social media curfew for 16- and 17-year-olds, expanding its efforts to strengthen protections for minors online.

US Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh on Tuesday pledged to make high inflation "a thing of the past" in his first monetary policy testimony to Congress."

Two people were killed on Tuesday after a helicopter crashed in a remote area off the coast of British Columbia, Canada, local media reported.

US strikes Iran's Bushehr again, site of nuclear power plant: media

Annual San Angel Flower Fair held in Mexico City, Mexico

South Korea's money supply grew for a seventh straight month amid lingering inflationary pressure, central bank data showed Wednesday.

Indonesia's external debt rose to 444.4 billion U.S. dollars at the end of May 2026, up 2.1 percent year on year from the previous month, Bank Indonesia said Wednesday.

The global artificial intelligence (AI) community will gather in Shanghai from July 17 to 20 for the 2026 World AI Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance, where experts, policymakers and industry leaders will exchange views on the future development.

An experimental drug might help slow early Alzheimer’s disease in a markedly different way than today’s treatments — by lowering levels of a brain protein called tau, researchers reported Tuesday.