Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday that trade negotiators from the two countries had reached a "framework consensus", Beijing's state media said.
"Through the Kuala Lumpur economic and trade talks, the two sides... reached a framework consensus on reciprocal solutions to current pressing economic and trade issues," Wang told Rubio, according to a readout of their Monday call published by state broadcaster CCTV.
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Wall Street is poised to add to last week's records when markets open Monday after President Donald Trump said he expected to reach a trade agreement with China.
Futures for the S&P 500 jumped 0.9% while futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.5%. Nasdaq futures, boosted by chipmakers, were up 1.3%. Nvidia was up 2.5% while Micron jumped 4.1%.
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About 100 people gathered at a church in Kyiv on Monday to honor two Ukrainian journalists killed when a Russian drone struck their car in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region.
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Sudanese paramilitary forces seized a key military base in the army's last stronghold in the embattled western Darfur region, activists and aid groups said Monday in a significant blow to the military in a war that has gripped Sudan since 2023.
Medical groups reported dozens of civilians killed and health infrastructure destroyed as fighting raged on between the two sides in el-Fasher, the provincial capital of North Darfur. There were no definitive numbers on the casualties.
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President Donald Trump opened his visit to Japan on Monday with greetings from the emperor a day before he meets new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who is banking on building a friendly personal relationship with the U.S. leader to ease trade tensions.
One key to this strategy might lie in an idea floated by Japan's government to buy a fleet of Ford F-150 trucks, a meaningful gesture that may also be impractical given the narrow streets in Tokyo and other Japanese cities.
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Pope Leo XIV will pray at the site of the 2020 port blast in Beirut that killed over 200 people and compounded Lebanon's economic and political crisis during his first foreign trip as pope next month that will also take him to Turkey to mark an important anniversary with Orthodox Christians.
The Vatican on Monday released the itinerary of Leo's Nov. 27-Dec. 2 trip. It includes several moments for history's first American pope to speak about interfaith and ecumenical relations, as well as the plight of Christians in the Middle East and regional tensions overall.
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Scientists have long debated whether dinosaurs were in decline before an asteroid smacked the Earth 66 million years ago, causing mass extinction.
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Sean Dyche achieved in his first game what predecessor Ange Postecoglou couldn't in eight matches in charge: a victory.
Under its new coach, Nottingham Forest presented a concentrated display resulting in a 2-0 victory over Porto in the Europa League on Thursday.
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Lionel Messi has finally agreed to a new contract with Inter Miami, a deal that required several months to complete and ensures that the sport's biggest icon will be with the Major League Soccer club for its planned move into a new stadium next year.
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U.S. inflation remained elevated last month as gas prices jumped while the cost of rents and some services cooled, painting a mixed picture of the expenses consumers are facing in a murky economy where growth appears steady but hiring slow.
Consumer prices increased 3% in September from a year earlier, the Labor Department said Friday, the highest since January and up from 2.9% in August. Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, core prices also rose 3%, down from 3.1% in the previous month.
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