BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders charted a course toward net-zero global warming emissions but without setting a target date for the goal in a draft summit statement on Wednesday.

BRUSSELS, March 20 (Reuters) - European Union leaders charted a course toward net-zero global warming emissions but without setting a target date for the goal in a draft summit statement on Wednesday.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's government will adjust tax rebates for exports of goods and services and will strive to accomplish economic development targets for 2019, state television said on Wednesday, quoting a cabinet meeting chaired by Premier Li Keqiang.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders will coordinate their positions on Thursday evening on a number of issues they intend to raise with China at an April 9 summit, including tight cooperation on WTO reform and cyber-security concerns, a senior EU official said.

PUNE, India (Reuters) - Ganesh Bhalerao is a cartoonist hoping to go viral in the battle to secure Prime Minister Narendra Modi's re-election when India votes over the next two months.

NAGOYA (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp and Suzuki Motor Corp on Wednesday said they planned to produce electric vehicles (EVs) and compact cars for each other to better compete with fast-changing technologies in the global auto industry.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - State Bank of India's head told reporters on Wednesday that putting Jet Airways into bankruptcy is the "last option" for lenders and that they are making every effort to keep the airline flying.

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Firefighters on Wednesday extinguished a fire at a Mitsui & Co petrochemical storage site outside Houston that has been billowing acrid smoke for days, the company said.

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Nearly five years after Thailand's 2014 military coup, the populist movement that the army has overthrown twice in a decade is contesting an election on Sunday that its leaders say is rigged against it.