International

Mozambican President Armando Guebuza has met with a visiting senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC) who has pledged more efforts to improve relations between the two nations to benefit their people.

Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza has promulgated a decree pardoning various categories of detainees held in the country’s prisons in an attempt to “decongest” detention houses to improve detainees’ living conditions, a decree signed on Monday but publicized on Tuesday said.

China and Chile agreed Tuesday to upgrade their bilateral ties to a strategic partnership, and double trade in three years.

Gunmen stormed a pro-government Syrian TV channel headquarters on Wednesday, bombing buildings and shooting dead three employees, state media said, in one of the boldest attacks yet on a symbol of the authoritarian state.

Thirty-one Republican senators have sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, demanding for a special counsel to investigate the suspected security leaks from President Barack Obama's administration, local media reported Tuesday.

Villagers and soldiers in eastern Uganda on Wednesday began hacking away at a wall of mud with shovels and hoes after a landslide on Monday turned two villages into a muddy grave, killing about 30 people and leaving more than 100 missing.

Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza has promulgated a decree pardoning various categories of detainees held in the country’s prisons in an attempt to “decongest” detention houses to improve detainees’ living conditions, a decree signed on Monday but publicized on Tuesday said.