While host India wants this year's meeting to focus on issues like alleviating poverty and climate finance, US tensions with Russia and China are expected to create divides.
Fourteen children are among 64 people confirmed to have died when their boat shattered in a storm. Meanwhile, Afghan Foreign Ministry says 80 Afghan citizens died in tragedy.
The fierce fighting for the industrial city of Bakhmut in the eastern region of Donetsk continues to rage, as Russia-Ukraine conflict enters its 370th day.
Ukrainian Intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov denies claims made by senior US officials that China is weighing the possibility of supplying arms to Russia.
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said the next meeting with Kosovo's Prime Minister Albin Kurti and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic would take place in March and focus on how to implement the plan.
US national security advisor Jake Sullivan says there would be “real costs” for China if it provides lethal weapons to Russia, as the Moscow-Kiev fighting rolls into its 369th day,
Deal announced by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen follows more than a year of tense negotiations over the "Northern Ireland Protocol".
