Chinese premier meets Serbian PM in Shanghai

Chinese Premier Li Qiang met with Serbian Prime Minister Milos Vucevic in Shanghai on Tuesday.

Vucevic is in the Chinese city to attend the 7th China International Import Expo (CIIE) that opened on the same day.

Li recalled President Xi Jinping's historic state visit to Serbia in May, during which he held fruitful talks with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and guided China-Serbia relations onto a new path of building a community with a shared future in the new era.

China is willing to work with Serbia to further implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, continuously deepen political trust, foster closer unity and collaboration, strengthen the alignment between the Belt and Road Initiative and the "Leap into the Future - Serbia 2027" plan, and advance the two countries' cooperation in various fields to a new level so as to promote the high-quality development of China-Serbia community with a shared future in the new era, Li said.

Vucevic reaffirmed Serbia's commitment to the one-China principle, and expressed the wish to strengthen high-level exchanges with China.

He also expressed Serbia's commitment to deepening practical cooperation in various fields within the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative to continuously advance the construction of the Serbia-China community with a shared future.

Chinese premier meets Serbian PM in Shanghai

Voters in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, went to the polls early Tuesday morning, marking the official start of Election Day voting for the 2024 U.S. presidential election.

Six registered voters of the tiny town in northeastern United States cast their ballots at midnight, following a tradition that dates back decades ago.

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and Republican candidate Donald Trump are tied in the town in a 3-3 vote.

In D.C., Fences and barricades have been erected around the White House, and security bars have been installed on the buildings of the Capitol, the White House, and the Department of the Treasury.

Shops near the White House have also boarded up their windows with plywood.

Amid heightened security for fears of violence and chaos, the vast majority of polling stations across the country open on Tuesday morning and will remain open until the evening.

Local officials across the nation are taking elaborate measures to fortify election-related sites, including plans for snipers on a rooftop to protect a key vote-counting headquarters, panic buttons for election workers and surveillance drones buzzing overhead, according to media reports.

Voting for 2024 U.S. presidential election starts in New Hampshire