President Donald Trump welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping to the White House for a lavish state dinner Thursday evening attended by top tech and industry leaders, capping a day of both pomp and circumstance and meetings during the high-stakes visit.
Xi and his wife Peng Liyuan were the guests of honor as Trump and first lady Melania Trump hosted the Chinese delegation in the East Room.
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Iran's representative to the United Nations has condemned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to the General Assembly, questioning why the Israeli leader was allowed to speak at the world body. "If the General Assembly banned the apartheid regime of South Africa from speaking at this Assembly in the 1970s, why should it today grant this privilege to this criminal?" said Nasser Asadi, Third Counsellor at Iran's Permanent Mission to the U.N., was quoted as saying Friday by Iran's state news agency IRNA .
The pontiff delivered the warning on the first day of his trip to France on Friday.
During the two-year civil war in Tigray, the region was totally cut off from the outside world.
Pope Leo XIV used his address at the Élysée Palace to touch on some of France's biggest debates, from artificial intelligence and secularism to surrogacy, while calling for peace and solidarity. Our journalist Kethevane Gorjestani breaks down the key takeaways from his speech.