China's coast guard said it had taken "necessary control measures" to warn a Japanese civilian aircraft that was flying in the vicinity of a disputed island chain in the East China Sea on Saturday.Coast guard vessels deployed helicopters to "warn off" the aircraft just before midday near the disputed islands, which Tokyo calls the Senkaku and Beijing calls the Diaoyu.The Japanese embassy in Beijing did not immediately reply to a request for comment.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his brief meeting with US counterpart Donald Trump on the sidelines of Pope Francis’ funeral at the Vatican a week ago was the best that the two men have had together.In comments released by his presidential administration, Zelensky said that he and Trump agreed that a 30-day ceasefire between Kyiv and Moscow was the correct first step towards peace in the war in Ukraine.He said he raised the topic of sanctions with Trump at the meeting, and that the response of the US president on this question was “very strong”. Zelensky did not give specifics on this.

Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak, the prime minister of Yemen's internationally recognized government, said on Saturday he had submitted his resignation.In a statement, Mubarak said he had faced "lots of difficulties", including being unable to reshuffle the government.

At least seven people have been killed and 20 injured in an attack on a town in South Sudan, the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières said on Saturday, destroying the last remaining hospital and pharmacy in the Fangak county.