International

Twenty-nine Chinese workers abducted by local rebels in Sudan last month arrived on Tuesday afternoon at the Wilson Airport in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, where they were handed over to the local Chinese embassy. 

A controversial anti-gay bill which includes death penalty for some homosexual acts was on Tuesday tabled before the country’s Parliament despite intense foreign pressure on government to drop the bill.

Zambia’s Movement for Multiparty Democracy party (MMD) has sued the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) for alleging that it printed fake $579 million (K3 trillion) in China prior to the September presidential elections.

A trio of leading US senators warned Egypt that the risk of a “disastrous” rupture in ties had “rarely been greater” amid an escalating row over the planned trial of US pro-democracy activists.

In response to a surge in attacks by Somali pirates along the east coast of Africa, South Africa signed a maritime cooperation agreement with Tanzania and Mozambique on Tuesday.

Syrian troops bombed residential neighborhoodsin the central city of Homs Wednesday for the fifth straight day, killing scores of people in what activists say is the regime’s final push to retake areas controlled by the rebels.

Residents in India’s most populous state have began voting in a month-long local election.

A U.S. federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled Proposition 8, the voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage in California, unconstitutional, paving way for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on the issue as early as next year.