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AFP Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to visit North Korea next week, marking his first trip to Pyongyang in seven years and underscoring Beijing’s efforts to strengthen its diplomatic role amid shifting global alliances.…

AFP/APP Beijing: China logged its hottest August in more than six decades last month, its national weather service said, after the country endured a summer of extreme weather and heatwaves across much of its north and west. China is…

AFP/APP Tokyo:Tokyo's main stock index closed lower on Tuesday, in line with broad losses in Asia, as investors look ahead to the release of key US inflation data.   The benchmark Nikkei 225 fell 0.11 percent, or 44.65 points, to…