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IN FOCUS: Experts do not expect US and China to resolve all their issues before the two presidents meet, but they are hoping for enough progress to stop the rivalry from doing more global economic damage. Alisha Rahaman Sarkar reports

The Ukrainian president stressed that this would ‘not a plan to end the war’ but one to ‘begin diplomacy’

Ukraine strengthens Pokrovsk positions amid infiltration by estimated 200 Russian troops; Lukoil selling overseas assets after US sanctions. What we know on day 1,343

President has not definitively ruled out seeking to extend time in office. Key US politics stories from Monday 27 October at a glance

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a Strategic Partnership Treaty with Venezuela on Monday, formalizing a broad cooperation agreement between the two countries

Following another week of diplomatic flip-flopping in the United States, Ukraine’s European allies did not disappoint when it came to the fulsomeness of their diplomatic rhetoric. Yet concrete action to strengthen the capabilities Ukraine needs to win the war remained at a snail’s pace.

North Korea's top diplomat has visited the Kremlin for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin

Kyiv is rushing troops to strengthen its positions in the strategic eastern city

The Russian president announced a “successful test” of a new nuclear-powered Burevestnik cruise missile in what the US president called an "inappropriate" step, calling on Putin to end his war in Ukraine instead of testing rockets.