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King Muhammad VI declared three days of national mourning after an earthquake struck Morocco late on Friday, killing at least 2,000 people.

Rescue teams continue to struggle to reach remote villages.

The Quake is the country's deadliest since 1960.

With a magnitude of 6.8, it was also the biggest in the area for at least 120 years.

Algeria, which severed ties with Morocco two years ago, said it would open its airspace to allow aid to reach its neighbor.

Vietnam upgraded relations with America to their highest level, a status previously granted only to China, Russia, India and South Korea during a state visit by President Joe Biden.

The two countries will cooperate on semiconductors and minerals.

America is drawing closer to a regime with a bad human rights record because it wants to counter China's influence in the Indo-Pacific region.

Louise Nassio Lula de Silva, Brazil's president, said that Vladimir Putin, his Russian counterpart, could attend next year's G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro without being arrested.

Mr. Putin faces a warrant from the international criminal court of which Brazil is a member for war crimes.

On Saturday, G20 leaders unexpectedly agreed to a joint communique which did not denounce Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Arby Ahmed, Ethiopia's prime minister, said that his country had finished filling reservoirs for its planned dam on the main tributary of the Nile River.

The Grand Ethiopian, Renaissance dam, was expected to produce 6,000 megawatts of electricity, more than doubling Ethiopia's current capacity.

But Sudan and Egypt, which both rely on the Nile for water, view the projects as a threat.

Armenian separatists who control Nagorno-Karabakh have allowed in aid shipments from Azerbaijan for the first time in decades.

Azerbaijan's government agreed to reopen some of the region's road links to Armenia.

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