BEIJING — President Xi Jinping reaffirmed China’s stance of denuclearisation on the Korean Peninsula yesterday, stressing that targets should be met by all parties involved no matter how the situation evolves.

KINSHASA — The M23 rebels and the DR Congo national army on Thursday observed a truce to allow UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to visit Goma, the capital of North-Kivu province, sources said.

KABUL — Afghan security forces were yesterday battling insurgents in the centre of the capital, Kabul, after the Taliban said it had launched an attack.
A large explosion was followed by several hours of gunfire. A Nepali guard and an off-duty policeman were killed, along with several militants.

WINDHOEK — The Southern African region is facing an invasion of Peste de Petit Ruminantes (PPR) which afflicts goats and sheep, a Namibian official warned on Thursday.
The disease, also known as the “small ruminant plague”, is a highly contagious and fast-spreading disease, according to Namibian Agriculture, Water and Forestry Minister John

ACCRA — Africa needs to accelerate and increase trade within countries in the coming years to improve the standard of living of its citizens and ensure prosperity for the continent, a senior Ghanaian official said on Thursday.

STOCKHOLM — More than a dozen cars were torched and schools, shops and a police station were set ablaze as riots swept through Stockholm’s immigrant-dominated suburbs for the fifth straight night, police and firefighters said yesterday.

KAMPALA — The African Union Executive Council, composed of African foreign affairs ministers, has endorsed Uganda’s foreign affairs minister, Sam Kutesa’s candidacy for president of the 69th session of the UN General Assembly for 2014-2015.

NEW YORK — “One of the first things that the independent African nations did was to form an organisation called the Organisation of African Unity.
“This organisation consists of all independent African states who have reached the agreement to submerge all differences and combine their efforts toward eliminating from the

The Zambezi River Basin Atlas of the Changing Environment, the first of its kind in the Zambezi River Basin and in southern Africa, will be launched on  May 29 in Luanda, Angola at a meeting of Sadc Ministers responsible for Water.

LONDON, May 24, 2013 (AFP) - A British Airways plane made an emergency landing at London's Heathrow airport on Friday after a "technical fault", forcing officials to close both runways.

WASHINGTON - The major highway bridge linking the Washington state city of Seattle with Canada and the rest of the Pacific north-west region collapsed late on Thursday, dumping several vehicles and the people inside into a river.