Editor's note: Foreign Minister Wang Yi made the following speech at the Lanting Forum in Beijing on Wednesday regarding President Xi Jinping's upcoming state visit to the United States.
A magnitude-8.3 earthquake struck off the coast of Chile on Wednesday, killing at least five people and slamming powerful waves into coastal towns.
Thousands of migrants have begun pouring into Croatia, setting up a new path toward Western Europe after Hungary used tear gas and water cannons to keep them out of its territory.
The military in Burkina Faso has taken to the airwaves to declare it now controls the country, confirming that a coup has taken place just weeks before national elections. In the announcement aired early on Thursday, the statement said that the transitional government was dissolved.
Agatha Christie fans have descended on her hometown of Torquay on the English Riviera for the 125th anniversary of the murder master's birth on Tuesday as the crime novel enjoys a global revival.
A small drone buzzes above a pristine Pacific beach in Mexico as troops stand guard, seeking to deter poachers from snatching sea turtle eggs that end up on restaurant menus.
Opposition lawmakers and thousands of demonstrators were staging last-ditch protests in a political showdown on Wednesday as Japan's ruling party started a final push to pass security legislation to expand the role of the country's military.
Sri Lanka promised to deliver justice after a United Nations human rights report called on Wednesday for a special court to be set up to prosecute war crimes committed during the nation's 26-year civil conflict.
Gulf monarchies on Tuesday called for the international community to take greater responsibility in aiding Syrian refugees after the oil-flush states faced questions over the number of people they have accepted.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Wednesday tougher penalties for stone throwers, a move that follows a third day of clashes in and around Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound.
Saudi Arabia's King Salman sanctioned the powerful Saudi Binladin Group on Tuesday over the collapse of a construction crane at Mecca's Grand Mosque, which killed more than 100 people days before the annual hajj pilgrimage to the city.
Croatia found itself dragged into Europe's migrant crisis on Wednesday as dozens walked through fields across Serbia's border with its western neighbor, rerouted by bus after Hungary locked down its own frontier with Serbia.
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