The second meeting between North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump broke up in disarray in Vietnam’s capital on Thursday, without even a joint statement.

A planned summit between a group of four Central European countries, known as the Visegrad Four (V4), and Israel has been cancelled after Poland pulled out over a Holocaust row with the Tel Aviv regime.

Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Maciej Lang held a meeting with his Iranian counterpart after Tehran denounced a decision by the European country to host an anti-Iran summit organized by the United States, according to IRNA.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un arrived Tuesday on an unannounced visit to Beijing for talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, as preparations ramp up for an expected second summit with US President Donald Trump.

The leaders of the Astana trio (Russia, Turkey and Iran) will meet in Russia at the beginning of 2019, Russian Special Presidential Envoy for the Middle East and Africa and Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov told reporters on Friday.

Bahrain and Qatar traded barbs over the Qatari emir's decision not to attend a Persian Gulf Arab summit in Saudi Arabia on Sunday, an absence that suggests a rift between Doha and three Persian Gulf Arab states is unlikely to be resolved soon.

South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in has arrived in North Korea’s capital, Pyongyang, on a landmark visit and to attend a three-day summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

North Korean's Kim Jong Un greeted Moon Jae-in with hugs and smiles on Tuesday as the South Korean president arrived in Pyongyang to discuss faltering talks on denuclearization and the prospect of officially ending the Korean War.

UN member-states on Friday agreed on a global plan to step up the fight against tuberculosis, the world's number one killer among infectious diseases, settling a row with the US over access to cheap drugs.

Mayors, governors, entrepreneurs, CEOs, investors and celebrities delivered a double-edged message on Friday at the close of a climate summit in San Francisco: Global warming is making the planet unlivable — but we know how to fix it.

Presidents of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Turkey issued a joint statement and emphasized their strong and continued commitment to the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic as well as to the purposes and principles of the UN Charter and highlighted that they should be respected by all.

It is the world's number one killer among infectious diseases, but tuberculosis has been eclipsed by HIV/AIDS as a focus of global attention and donor funding.

Russian Presidential Office Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday the Russian, Iranian and Turkish heads of state are expected to meet in Tehran in the first ten days of September.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un "at an early date", the North's state media reported Wednesday, amid a rapid diplomatic thaw on the peninsula.

North and South Korea agreed on Monday to hold a summit in the North in September, another step toward boosting cooperation between the old rivals.