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U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he had agreed to reduce tariffs on China to 47% in exchange for Beijing resuming U.S. soybean purchases, keeping rare earths exports flowing and cracking down on the illicit trade of fentanyl, Reuters reported.

His remarks after face-to-face talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping in the South Korean city of Busan, their first since 2019, marked the finale of Trump's whirlwind Asia trip on which he also touted trade breakthroughs with South Korea, Japan and Southeast Asian nations.

"I thought it was an amazing meeting," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One shortly after he departed Busan, adding that tariffs imposed on Chinese imports would be cut to 47% from 57%, according to Reuters.

The gold is being traded at Rs 236, 300 per tola in the domestic market on Thursday.

According to the Federation of Nepal Gold and Silver Dealers’ Association, the silver is being traded at Rs 2, 980 per tola today.

Hakan Calhanoglu scored twice as Inter Milan earned a comfortable 3-0 win over struggling Fiorentina on Wednesday to keep within touching distance of Serie A's two pace setters, Reuters reported.

Third placed Inter trail Napoli and AS Roma, who are both on 21, by three points. 

Fiorentina, whose results have been well below expectations, have yet to win a league match this season and are 19th with four points. Their poor form has put coach Stefano Pioli under growing pressure, according to Reuters.

Inter controlled much of the match but several efforts were denied by Fiorentina goalkeeper David de Gea, who produced a series of impressive saves for the first hour.

Harry Kane scored twice to help Bayern Munich come from a goal down and earn a 4-1 victory at Cologne in the German Cup second round on Wednesday, extending their perfect start to the season to 14 wins from 14 matches across all competitions, Reuters reported.

Bayern's winning run since the start of the season is a record for a club from the big-five European leagues with the previous best mark set by AC Milan with 13 wins in the 1992/93 campaign.

"In the first half Cologne believed and fought. They won some key one-on-ones and were good with their set pieces. In the second half we were stronger," Bayern coach Vincent Kompany said, according to Reuters.

Another day, another record for 15-year-old Max Dowman. But Arsenal's teenage prodigy is taking everything in his stride, according to his manager Mikel Arteta, BBC reported.

The winger had already written himself into Arsenal's history books by becoming the second-youngest player to represent the club and second-youngest to play in the Premier League - with team-mate Ethan Nwaneri holding both records.

But on Wednesday Dowman became the youngest player - at 15 years and 302 days old - to start a match for Arsenal as he starred in the EFL Cup win over Brighton, according to BBC.

Dowman made his Premier League debut off the bench in Arsenal's 5-0 win over Leeds in August - but his talent has had everyone at the club excited for a long time.

Second-string Liverpool were thumped 3-0 by Crystal Palace as Ismaila Sarr struck twice for the visitors in the League Cup on Wednesday, booking the London side's spot in the quarter-finals and piling more misery on Arne Slot's struggling side, Reuters reported.

Holders Newcastle United dispatched Tottenham Hotspur 2-0, Arsenal beat Brighton & Hove Albion 2-0, Manchester City came back to down second-tier Swansea City 3-1 and Chelsea edged past Wolverhampton Wanderers 4-3 in other fourth-round ties.

Slot rested most of his regular starters -- as did the other major Premier League clubs -- leaving Liverpool to suffer their sixth loss in seven games across all competitions, according to Reuters.

Hurricane Melissa barreled through the Caribbean on Wednesday after thrashing Cuba's second-biggest city, isolating hundreds of rural communities, unleashing devastation in Jamaica and drenching Haiti, where at least 25 were killed, Reuters reported.

Melissa struck Jamaica on Tuesday as the strongest-ever hurricane to directly hit its shores, with sustained winds of 185 mph (298 kph), well above the minimum strength for a Category 5, the strongest classification for hurricanes.

As of 2100 GMT on Wednesday, Melissa was a Category 1 hurricane moving north-east through the Bahamas archipelago, which completed the air evacuation of nearly 1,500 people early, according to Reuters.

The Rapid Support Forces militia reportedly killed hundreds of civilians at the main hospital in el-Fasher, days after it captured the Sudanese city, the head of the UN's health agency says, BBC reported.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the UN health agency was "appalled and deeply shocked" by the reported killing of 460 people at the hospital.

Earlier, the Sudan Doctors' Network said that on Tuesday RSF fighters had "cold bloodedly killed everyone they found inside the Saudi Hospital, including patients, their companions, and anyone else present".

It gave no casualty figures, but said medical facilities in the city had been "transformed into human slaughterhouses".