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Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping highlighted their strong relationship during talks in Beijing on Tuesday, China's Xinhua state news agency reported. Xi said their ties had withstood the test of international change and could be further expanded, the agency reported. Both sides signed more than 20 cooperation agreements in fields such as energy, aviation, artificial intelligence and agriculture. Putin described Russian-Chinese relations as being at an "unprecedentedly high level," according to the Kremlin. No details emerged on what Xi and Putin said abou...

A record 11,040 Palestinians are being held in Israeli prisons as of September 1, according to data published by Israeli human rights organization HaMoked. The non-governmental organization, which relies on information from the Israeli prison authority, said this is the highest number to date. More than half of these detainees are being held outside of regular judicial proceedings, according to HaMoked: 3,577 so-called administrative detainees and 2,662 "unlawful combatants." Many of the combatants were arrested during the Gaza conflict, which began almost two years ago with the terrorist atta...

The population of eastern Germany has slumped by more than 15% since 1990, official figures revealed on Tuesday, as the country prepares to celebrate 35 years since reunification. Excluding Berlin, the five states that made up the former East Germany have lost 16% of their residents since the communist state dissolved following the fall of the Berlin Wall, according to data from the Federal Statistical Office. In contrast, states in the former West Germany have seen their population rise by an average of 10% since 1990. The southern powerhouse of Bavaria leads the way, with a rise of 16%, foll...