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Official data shows profits of China's major industrial firms increased 4.3 percent in the first four months compared with the same period last year.

Leaders of China, Japan and South Korea have held separate bilateral talks ahead of their first three-way meeting in over four years. During talks with South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, Chinese Premier Li Qiang said the Chinese market is always open to foreign investors.

Beatrice Chebet from Kenya has broken the women's 10,000m world record at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, the United States.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed his country’s readiness to continue negotiations with Ukraine. However, he said the talks can only be based on the agreements that the two countries negotiated before.

The total number of China-Europe freight train trips has surpassed 90,000.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has met Cambodian Foreign Minister Sok Chenda Sophea in Beijing.