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BELGRADE - Serbian flagship carrier Air Serbia on Thursday marks the tenth anniversary of launching operations under a new name and with a new visual identity - in its first decade, it carried more than 25 mln passengers and operated more than 310,000 flights.

BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy PM and Finance Minister Sinisa Mali met with China's newly-appointed Ambassador to Serbia Li Ming on Thursday to discuss continuing the already successful cooperation between the two countries.

China's foreign minister Qin Gang was removed from office on Tuesday, state media reported, after not being seen in the public eye for a month.

His absence had sparked a storm of speculation that Qin, considered a confidant of President Xi Jinping, had fallen from grace or was subject to an official investigation.

Chinese Premier Li Qiang slammed efforts in the West to "de-risk" their economies as a "false proposition" yesterday, hitting back against U.S. and EU policy aimed at reducing their reliance on China.

The United States and the European Union have in recent months moved to "de-risk" from the world's second-largest economy.

Temperatures in Beijing increased above 40 degrees Celsius on Thursday for the first time since 2014, breaking the record for the hottest day in June and the Chinese capital warned of extremely hot weather over the weekend, Reuters reported.

China's first domestically produced passenger jet, the C919, took off on its maiden commercial flight on Sunday, a milestone event in the nation's decades-long effort to compete with Western rivals in the air.    

China Eastern Airlines flight MU9191 rose into the skies above Shanghai Hongqiao Airport just after 10:30 a.m., footage from state broadcaster CCTV showed.    

BELGRADE - The national airlines of Serbia and China, Air Serbia and Air China, have renewed cooperation launched in 2015 to facilitate travel between the two countries, Air Serbia said in a statement.

The chief doctor at one of Shanghai's top hospitals said 70 percent of the metropolis's population was infected with COVID-19 during China's massive surge in cases, Chinese media reported.

The sharp rise in the number of infections came after strict restrictions were suddenly eased last month without warning or preparation and quickly overwhelmed hospitals and crematoriums.

Beijing urged Washington to stop "demonizing" China on July 26 as rancour marked the start of talks with the highest-level U.S. envoy to visit under President Joe Biden's administration.

A specially chartered Antonov cargo carrier landed at Athens International Airport on Tuesday, carrying 80 tons of medical equipment from Tianjin in China for the Greek Health Ministry.