The foreign ministers of Japan and China have agreed to promote meetings of senior officials to ensure the success of Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to Japan next year.
Former French president Jacques Chirac, a centre-right career politician who served as head of state from 1995 to 2007, has died, his family told AFP on Thursday. He was 86.
A damning new UN report published Sunday said the world is falling badly behind in the race to avert climate disaster because of runaway warming, with the five-year period ending 2019 set to be the hottest ever.
