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China has ratified the Paris Agreement on climate change in a bid to reaffirm its commitment to curbing harmful emissions.
Foreign Minister Wang Yi believes the phone call won't change the longstanding 'one China' policy.
Meanwhile, Russia wants to create four humanitarian corridors to supply eastern Aleppo with aid and evacuate injured civilians.
Growth has also accelerated in the services sector to levels not seen since 2014, the NBS said.
During his state of the nation speech, he also praised ties with China as a key component of global stability.
The agricultural and industrial sectors were performing worse than last year, the state statistics firm said.
South Africa's set of trials for a new vaccine are the first such wide-scale effort in a decade.
Nearly 250,000 civilians were trapped in the eastern part of Aleppo held by some 1,000 Islamist rebels from different factions.
At least 96,000 people contracted HIV in 2016, the CDC said.
