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Beijing was chosen as the host of the 2022 Winter Olympics at the 128th International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session in Kuala Lumpur on Friday.

The Chinese capital beat the only other candidate - Almaty, with Beijing garnering 44 votes, while the largest city in Kazakhstan received 40 votes.

The large Indian Ocean island nation of Madagascar, off southeast Africa, is the location where a two-meter-long piece of an aircraft wing washed ashore, with suspicions immediately turning to missing MH370.

Malaysia sent a team to determine whether the debris, which was recently found on the French island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean, is from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370).

The piece of wreckage, which measures two metres in length, washed up on the island late on Wednesday, the BBC reports.

Investigators headed to a tiny Indian Ocean island on July 30 to inspect whether plane wreckage that drifted ashore was from missing flight MH370, raising hopes of solving one of aviation's greatest mysteries.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an met his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, for talks in Beijing on July 29, in a visit expected to cover trade ties, missile defense program bargaining and spat over the Asian giant?s Uighur minority. 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an visits China, a leading trade partner, with a loaded agenda where he will seek incentives for an assertive missile defense program on the bargaining table. 

Turkey?s geopolitical standing is like an oxymoron; it is both a liability and an asset.

It is a liability since Turkey is at the heart of one of the most unstable regions in the world.

It is an asset, as the very instability of the region makes Turkey a nonexpendable player, provided it maintains its relative stability.

Somalia's Shebab insurgents killed at least six people on July 26 in a huge car bomb attack on a hotel in the capital Mogadishu that is also home to several diplomatic missions, officials and witnesses said, with the death toll expected to rise.

Turkey's importance has increased in the eyes of China but a lack of trust as a result of a large information deficit continues to be the main problem obstructing the full potential of bilateral ties, according to Umut Ergunsü, a young academic living in China The main problem between Turkey and China is a lack of communication, lack of knowledge about each other and a corresponding lack

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic will attend a military parade that China will organize in Beijing on September 3, the daily Vecernje Novosti writes.

The parade will celebrate victory over fascism in the Second World War, and Japan's surrender.