Beijing hopes for the Taliban's positive role in the fight against international terrorism, the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said during the meeting with the head of the Taliban's political office in Qatar, Mullah Abdullah Ghani Baradar.

Natural disasters continue to shake the planet. More and more countries record abnormal bad weather. Heavy downpours also reached the north of Italy.

The world will change more over the next ten years than in the previous half century, the US President Joe Biden said in a speech to the staff of the US Director of National Intelligence.