Chinese President Xi Jinping plans to skip the BRICS Summit in Brazil next month, which, if confirmed, will be his first-ever absence from the meeting of the grouping of emerging economies since taking office 12 years ago, according to media reports.

The head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence service thanked the US Central Intelligence Agency on Wednesday for its help in “joint” operations during the recent 12-day war with Iran.

The court also found that, as far as the theory of motive was concerned, the evidence in the case before it seemed to be very vague and vacillating