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China's relationship with Australia is "on the right track", Premier Li Qiang said in Canberra on Monday as the two trading partners moved on from a bitter economic dispute.

The highest-ranking Chinese official to visit Australia since 2017, Li held high-level talks with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese following a welcome ceremony at Parliament House.

Australia has told China of its "outrage" over a suspended death sentence handed to Chinese-Australian dissident writer Yang Jun, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Tuesday.

Yang was sentenced to death on Monday with a two-year suspended execution and had all of his property confiscated, the Chinese foreign ministry said.

The Greek state budget recorded a primary surplus of 6.084 billion euros in the January-October period this year, up from a budget target for a surplus of €1.746 billion and a primary deficit of €350 million in the corresponding period in 2022, the National Economy and Finance Ministry said on Wednesday.

The Greek state budget recorded a primary surplus of 2.434 billion euros in the January-April period, compared to a budget target for a surplus of €869 million and a primary deficit of €799 million in the same period last year, the Finance Ministry said on Monday.

BELGRADE - Following Hillary Clinton's US presidential election defeat, it has been announced that Australia has cut all official ties with the Clinton Foundation.

On Tuesday, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop announced to the joint party room that agreements with the Foundation previously set up by the Rudd-Gillard government had not been renewed.

The dramatic drop in state spending and the positive course of revenues kept the primary budget surplus above its target in August, according to data published on Tuesday by the Finance Ministry.

Turkey?s budget deficit was 6.8 billion Turkish Liras ($2.5 billion) in March and 5.4 billion liras ($2 billion) in the first quarter of 2015, Finance Minister Mehmet ?imsek said in a press conference on April 15, announcing central government budget figures for March.

Bulgaria's Finance Ministry on Monday forecast a budget surplus for January equivalent to 0.1% of the Gross Domestic Product planned for the year.

The expected surplus of some BGN 85M will be the first recorded in the month of January since 2009, the Finance Ministry said in a statement.