Russian President Vladimir Putin may opt to join the G20 Leaders' Summit virtually, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo said on Tuesday, a week before the summit.

Biden plans to discuss human rights in Egypt, where he will travel for the United Nations COP27 climate summit, and in Cambodia, where he will attend a meeting of ASEAN, senior administration officials said Tuesday.

The one-and-a-half-minute handshake and chat on the sidelines of the summit in Sharm el-Sheikh on Monday may have been brief, but they were a stark contrast to previous comments by Macron, who in 2019 had described Maduro as "illegitimate".

A Republican victory could pave the way for a White House comeback bid by Donald Trump -- who returned to his playbook of airing unsubstantiated claims of fraud, after a campaign fought largely over economic issues.

"The Russian Federation continues to commit its crimes in connection with Ukrainian children," Zelenskiy's office quoted Andriy Yermak as saying at a meeting he chaired of a group of officials responsible for child protection. "The removal of children continues."

A reluctance to financially support less wealthy nations could result in a botched implementation of climate action, said Vice President Ma’ruf Amin in his speech at COP27 on Monday.

Jokowi, who is this year's chair of the bloc of major economies, said Putin during a phone conversation last week had not ruled out attending the summit in Bali, and would join if possible. 

In comments posted by the press service of his Concord catering firm on Russia's Facebook equivalent VKontakte, Prigozhin said: "We have interfered (in US elections), we are interfering and we will continue to interfere. Carefully, accurately, surgically and in our own way, as we know how to do."

Talks between the two sides on strategic stability have been frozen since Russia began its military campaign in Ukraine on Feb. 24, even as the New START treaty on nuclear arms reduction stays in effect.

The report, released ahead of talks on climate change finance at the COP27 summit in Egypt, said the funding was required to cut emissions, boost resilience, deal with damage from climate change and restore nature and land.

His comments came after local broadcaster Global News reported that Beijing had funded a "clandestine network" of candidates in a recent ballot, and days after authorities began investigating illegal Chinese police stations in the Toronto area.

Jokowi said a conversation with Putin last week left him with a "strong impression" the Russian leader would not attend the meeting in Bali, which is expected to be dominated by tensions over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Trump, who has never accepted the truth of his lost re-election bid in 2020, has hinted for months that he is ready to re-enter the fray.

James Zhong, 32, pleaded guilty Friday to committing wire fraud in September 2012 ago when he unlawfully obtained more than 50,000 bitcoin, according to federal prosecutors in New York.

With Republicans well placed to win at least partial control of Congress and Trump hinting at a 2024 White House comeback bid at his own rally late Monday, Democrats braced for the worst.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo received the Hasan bin Ali International Peace Prize from the Abu Dhabi Forum for Peace (ADFP) in Jakarta on Monday in recognition of his role in promoting peace, particularly through Indonesia’s G20 presidency.

"We need the United States and China to step up" on emissions cuts and financial aid, Macron told French and African climate campaigners on the sidelines of the UN climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.

Before narrowly winning Brazil's run-off election vote on Oct. 30, Lula began reaching out to Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) about forming a united front of tropical forest countries, according to a top aide of the leftist leader. 

Now, Anwar, 75, is hitting the national campaign trail again, trying to convince Malaysians to vote for him in the Nov. 19 election as he looks to finally fulfil his long-held dream of becoming prime minister. 

Activists are increasing pressure on Indonesia to shift ASEAN's approach to the Myanmar crisis as the country gears up to assume the regional bloc's chairmanship next year.

The warning came after a spate of North Korean weapons tests last week -- including an intercontinental ballistic missile -- as the United States and South Korea conducted their biggest-ever air force exercise.

The UN's COP27 climate summit in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh comes as nations worldwide are facing increasingly intense natural disasters that have taken thousands of lives this year alone and cost billions of dollars.

Here are some key takeaways from the UN analysis:

Vice President Ma’ruf Amin is scheduled to attend and deliver Indonesia’s National Statement at COP27 in Egypt, which has been dubbed the “implementation the Conference of the Parties" (COP), although activists are concerned that this year climate summit may be less impactful than last year’s COP26.

Scholz's comments came a day after his visit to the world's second-biggest economy alongside German corporate CEOs, the first by a G7 leader since the COVID-19 pandemic.

The newspaper cited unnamed sources as saying the request by American officials was not aimed at pushing Ukraine to the negotiating table, but a calculated attempt to ensure Kyiv maintains the support of other nations.

Much of the tension surrounding COP27 is expected to relate to loss and damage -- compensation funds provided by wealthy nations to vulnerable lower-income countries that bear little responsibility for climate-warming emissions.