ISLAMABAD — Pakistan has recorded its wettest April since 1961, with more than double the usual rainfall for the month, the national weather center said. The country experienced days of extreme weather in April that killed scores of people and destroyed property and farmland. Experts said Pakistan witnessed heavier rains because of climate change. Last month’s rainfall for Pakistan was a 164% increase from the usual level for April, according to a report published Friday by Pakistan’s… Read Full Article

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A row breaks out after Spain's transport minister suggests Argentina's president has taken drugs.

A row breaks out after Spain's transport minister suggests Argentina's president has taken drugs.

Washington — The United States, boosted by allies and the private sector, is delivering for Pacific islands even if Washington alone cannot match China's growing footprint, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said late Friday.  Blinken spoke after lawmakers in the Solomon Islands, whose warming security relationship with China has sparked alarm in the United States and Australia, choose another Beijing-friendly prime minister.   "China covers a lot of ground in the Pacific Islands, maybe more… Read Full Article

PARIS — France's world-leading cosmetics sector is counting on talks between Xi Jinping and Emmanuel Macron next week to help minimize the impact on French companies of tough new Chinese import rules requiring the sharing of formulas and manufacturing know-how.  President Xi's first visit to Europe in five years comes amid a backdrop of tense trade relations, with the European Union threatening China's electric vehicle and green energy industries with tariffs.  But progress toward an… Read Full Article

MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities said Friday they recovered three bodies in an area of Baja California near where two Australians and an American went missing last weekend during an apparent camping and surfing trip. The state prosecutor's office did not say whether the bodies were those of the three foreigners but said the bodies were discovered during the search for the missing men. It also announced that three people who were being questioned in the case of the missing men had been… Read Full Article

Hardeep Singh Nijjar was shot dead last June, sparking a diplomatic row between India and Canada.

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