The police said that the victims were associated with a road construction project and were returning after a site inspection in a vehicle on Monday night.

China on Tuesday confirmed that it had been asked to join US President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace,” an invitation that Washington had extended to dozens of countries in his bid to launch a global initiative aimed at resolving conflicts.

A Russian court sentenced a US citizen to five years in jail for crossing the border with a weapon when he sailed from the United States to meet a Russian woman he met over the Internet, Russia’s court service said.