ITALY: Rome and Beijing today signed a three-year action plan to implement past agreements and experiment with new forms of co-operation, Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on an official visit to China today.

Ms Meloni said: “We certainly have a lot of work to do and I am convinced that this work can be useful in such a complex phase on a global level, and also important at a multilateral level.”

RUSSIA: President Vladimir Putin said today that Moscow may deploy new strike weapons in response to the planned United States stationing of longer-range and hypersonic missiles in Germany.