AUSTRALIA: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese kicked off a visit to China this weekend meant to shore up trade relations between the two countries.

Mr Albanese met Shanghai Communist Party secretary Chen Jining on Sunday, the first in a series of high-level exchanges that will include meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Premier Li Qiang and chairman Zhao Leji of the National People’s Congress.

TURKEY: A fire at a 26-storey apartment building in the Turkish capital, Ankara, killed three people, including a three-and-a-half-month-old baby, local media said.

The blaze broke late on Saturday night on the fourth floor and quickly spread through the structure, according to the state-run Anadolu Agency. It took firefighters four hours to put out the fire.

EUROPEAN UNION: The EU and Mexico hit out at United States President Donald Trump’s threat to slap 30 per cent tariffs on their imports from August 1.

Mexico described the US move as an “unfair deal” and insisted its sovereignty was non-negotiable.

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen threatened to take “proportionate countermeasures” against the US.

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: A boat carrying migrants capsized off the eastern coast of the Dominican Republic, killing at least four people, authorities in the Caribbean nation said on Saturday, as emergency personnel and the military searched for survivors.

Seventeen people who were rescued, including a girl, received medical attention and were in good health, Juan Salas, director of the country’s civil defence, said. 

Mr Salas added that the search was being hampered by weather conditions.

The boat was carrying about 40 people, including migrants from Haiti and the Dominican Republic.