We start the day's other headlines overseas.

China welcomed leaders of some of its closest allies to an annual security summit today.

Member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, or SCO for short, presented a show of unity,

aimed at offering a counterbalance to America's role in global affairs.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi

were all smiles and even held hands as they were welcomed by China's president Xi Jinping.

In his remarks, Xi called on countries to reject Cold War thinking and laid out his vision

for an expanded SEO.

At present, the international landscape is marked by intertwined changes and turbulence.

China is willing to work with all parties to take this meeting as an opportunity to jointly

promote the SCO in entering a new stage of high-quality development and high-level cooperation.

She announced plans to speed up the creation of a development bank run by the S-CEO and pledged

more than a billion dollars in loans. China also invited most of the leaders to stay

through Wednesday for a massive military parade to mark 80 years since Japan's surrender in World War II.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is also due to attend.

The European Commission is blaming Russia for jamming the GPS signal of the commission

president's plane. The flight carrying Ursula von der Leyen was on approach to a city in southern Bulgaria yesterday when the

incident occurred. Authorities say the pilot and air traffic control were eventually able to land

safely using backup navigation aids. Von der Leyen is an outspoken critic of Russia's president and

the war in Ukraine. The flight was part of a four-day tour of EU nations that border Russia, which

continued today.

Russia has not commented on the incident.

...