Russia, China and India have similar positions on most of the global issues and are making joint effort to strengthen strategic stability, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday

Russian President Vladimir Putin praised on Friday Russian-Chinese-Indian cooperation, stressing that it contributed greatly to resolving acute global and regional problems

US President Donald Trump on Friday held a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in the Japanese city of Osaka to discuss a number of issues, including global security, trade relations, 5G technology and the Iranian crisis, a statement from the White House said

Spouses of the Group of Twenty (G20) leaders on Friday visited Kyoto's Tofukuji temple and fed koi carps as their partners joined the summit in the neighboring city of Osaka

The full-format meeting that Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart, Donald Trump, held on Friday on the sidelines of the G20 summit gives hope that Russian-US relations could improve, Vladimir Dzhabarov, the deputy chairman of the Russian upper house's foreign affairs committee, told Sputnik

Russian President Vladimir Putin invited on Friday his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa, for the first ever Russia-Africa summit that will take place in the Russian city of Sochi October 24.

Nearly 6,000 accredited journalists from some 40 countries are covering the G20 summit, which kicked off in Japan's second largest city of Osaka on Friday, a staffer with the summit's secretariat told Sputnik

UK Prime Minister Theresa May has said that she intends to raise the issue of an extradition request for the two Salisbury poisoning suspects at the talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the G20 summit sidelines in Osaka

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart, Donald Trump, discussed on Friday the situations in Syria, Venezuela, Iran and Ukraine, and also noted the need to improve bilateral relations for the benefit of the entire world at their talks on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, the White House said in a statement

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart, Donald Trump, finished their meeting, held on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, after having talked for one and a half hour