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Xi has met with more than 25 heads of state, including President Joe Biden, since Oct. 31 as he tries to improve foreign ties after staying in China for the pandemic.

A long-awaited and controversial revision of the Southeast Asian nation’s penal code makes sex outside marriage punishable by a year in jail.

Jiang, who died last week at 96, was eulogized as a loyal Marxist-Leninist who oversaw China’s rapid economic rise while maintaining rigid Communist Party control over society.

The latest military action comes a day after Pyongyang fired around 130 artillery rounds into waters near a buffer zone with South Korea, accusing its neighbor of raising tensions.

The mudslide late Sunday divided a highway in two in the town of Pueblo Rico in central Colombia as rescuers Monday were trying to help those trapped in the wreckage.

It defines the term as “a type of behavior which is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations.”

The theft of state unemployment funds is the first pandemic fraud tied to foreign, state-sponsored cybercriminals that the U.S. government has acknowledged publicly.

Authorities in the Russian province of Dagestan said it was unclear why the mass die-off happened but that it was likely due to natural causes.

Some of the shells landed in a buffer zone near the sea border between the two Koreas in what Seoul said was a violation of a 2018 agreement.

The country’s largest-ever trial will determine whether 10 men played a part in the Islamist suicide bombings, which killed 32 people and injured over 300.

Critics say the revisions could wind back hard-won democratic freedoms and police morality in the Southeast Asian nation.