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The landslide compounds a deepening humanitarian crisis in Sudan, a nation already in the grip of a crisis where 30 million people are in need of assistance.

It is the third meeting in two years and at a time when Moscow and Pyongyang are deepening their co-operation.

It will be their third meeting in two years at a time when Moscow and Pyongyang are deepening their cooperation and relations between both countries have reached a new level.

Canada's Foreign Minister Anita Anand said the appointment of Mr Cooter was part of a "step-by-step approach to deepening diplomatic engagement" with India.

More recently, Xi even appeared to be on the sidelines of a deepening Moscow-Pyongyang alliance, one that perhaps Beijing wanted no part of.