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A man carries a child whose head is covered with a towel to protect it from the heat in Jammu, India, on June 2, 2024. India has been experiencing a blisteringly hot summer and a part of capital New Delhi recorded the country’s highest ever temperature at 52.9 C, Reuters reported. The heatwave has claimed over 45 lives in the past 36 hours, Business Standard reported Saturday. Photo: VCG

China entered its general flood season on Saturday, with the flooding in the southern region already in full swing, according to the Ministry of Water Resources (MWR), while an expert told the Global Times on Sunday that this year's flood season in the southern part of China started earlier than usual.

Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu’s visit to the US from Thursday to Sunday aimed at sending a clear message to the US about China’s redlines on its core interests while also maintaining communication between senior officials in the two countries, said Chinese experts. They also noted that if the US refuses to stop its provocations and hostile measures toward China, the tensions between the two major powers will be difficult to stabilize while Washington is still mired in problems in the Ukraine and Gaza.

Widely viewed as the most beautiful highway in China allowing tourists to experience various landscape features along one single road, the scenic Duku Highway in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region reopened on Saturday, the earliest annual reopening over the past five years. With the early reopening, a surge in tourist arrivals from across the country this year is anticipated.

As exit polls suggest that India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to win a third consecutive term in office, Chinese experts noted that Modi's overall domestic and foreign policies will maintain continuity, as he is expected to persist in his efforts to bolster the country's economic growth.

The US' new three-phase cease-fire proposal for Israel and Hamas marks the Biden administration's latest effort to quell the mounting domestic and international pressure on the US government's biased position toward Israel in the conflict, and is vying to increase its influence in the Middle East, said Chinese experts.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's attendance at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore should remind Asian countries not to fall for the same trap that Ukraine fell into, as the instigation of the US for a bloc confrontation in Asia is dangerous, experts said.

An ace test pilot of China's J-20 stealth fighter jet recently revealed that the J-20 is receiving constant upgrades, and a next generation warplane is expected to make its debut soon.

Giant pandas are returning to Washington DC! Panda enthusiasts from both China and the US are excited about the news, with many looking forward to the pandas returning to the US capital to pour in new impetus to people-to-people exchanges between the two nations.

Students from Hohhot Minzu College wrestle at a campus Naadam festival on May 30, 2024 in Hohhot, North China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The festival features nine traditional ethnic sports competitions, including wrestling, archery, and horse racing, and serves as a major platform to strengthen national identity. Photo: VCG

Before this year's International Children's Day, the Supreme People's Court (SPC) of China on Thursday issued for the first time a set of guiding cases on judicial protection for minors. On the same day, the SPC also released opinions over protection for minors and crime prevention, stating that there will be zero tolerance for juvenile crime.

Emails obtained by CBS News California Investigates reveal the Governor's Chief of Staff​ did not want to negotiate with the initiative coalition unless they agreed to postpone their ballot measure until 2026.

The country's biggest provider of pet insurance cites rising cost of veterinary care in pulling product in some states.

President Biden was in Los Angeles for a glitzy fundraiser with former President Obama and a host of Hollywood stars.

"It is not in an athlete's DNA to stop and if the conditions are too dangerous I do think there is a risk of fatalities," one rugby player said.

Ian McKellen, 85, was hospitalized Monday after toppling off a London stage during a fight scene in "Player Kings."

The vast majority of school buses have no seatbelts and none have airbags for the drivers.

An NYU student is suing her roommate for allegedly stealing over $50,000 worth of clothes, handbags, and jewelry and then attempting to sell the items through The Real Real, court documents show.

Pro-reunification groups in the island of Taiwan opposed the collusion between separatist forces in the island and the US, saying that the US arms sales and visit of American arms dealers to the island aims to escalate cross-Straits tension and buying American weapons will only lead to more severe casualties and drag Taiwan island into war.

Chinese scientists for the first time obtained continuous observation data of the tropospheric atmosphere over the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, which would support the prediction of severe weather events and studying weather processes and environmental changes over plateau, the Global Times learned from the Tibetan Plateau Research (ITP), Chinese Academy of Sciences.