Lula will have bilateral discussions with Chinese President Xi Jinping on trade, investment, re-industrialisation, energy transition, climate crisis and global security.
China's Ministry of National Defence says it has continued to monitor the US Navy destroyer USS Milius in a second straight day as US asserts navigational rights in international waters.
One US contractor was killed and five servicemen were wounded after an "Iranian" drone attack targeted American facilities in northeastern Syria, Pentagon says.
Lula drew Brazil closer to China and traveled twice to Beijing during his two presidential terms from 2003 to 2010, and he is seeking to reset ties after four years of turmoil under his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro.
Trump's post about his arrest sparked a media frenzy and led to warnings from Democrats that his call for demonstrations could trigger a repeat of the violence his supporters unleashed at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Formal ties upgrade in the US-Vietnam relations this year might not be "realistic", experts say, as Hanoi worries about angering China, its biggest trading partner and a vital source of imports for its manufacturing sector.
Beijing claims USS Milius “illegally entered" its "territorial waters without approval" but the US said it was conducting routine operations in international waters off the disputed Paracel Islands.
Though Relativity Space's rocket, the world's first, failed to reach orbit, the launch is still a huge breakthrough and a precursor of what's to come in the future of space exploration.
The announcement came as Honduran Foreign Minister Eduardo Enrique Reina was heading to China to hold talks on the establishment of diplomatic relations with Beijing.
Upon reaching space, the rocket's second stage engine appeared to briefly ignite but failed to achieve thrust, ultimately failing to reach orbit.
Honduras Foreign Minister Eduardo Enrique Reina says interest rates were very high and "choking" Honduras, and the proposal was "related to finding a debt financing mechanism for [Taiwan] to buy [Honduran] debt."
US President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden wish Muslims worldwide "Ramadan Kareem", expressing solidarity with Uighur and Rohingya Muslims "and other Muslim communities facing persecution around the world."
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