International

Chinese President Hu Jintao on Tuesday promised more intensive cooperation in science and technology with other developing countries.

ANGOLA’s top court rejected appeals by two opposition parties on alleged irregularities in a vote won comfortably last month by President Jose Eduardo dos Santos’ ruling MPLA party.

THE United Nations and United States warned Wednesday that civilians must be protected as forces battling Somalia’s Islamist fighters tightened the noose around the key insurgent bastion of Kismayo.

SYRIAN rebels seized control of a third border crossing with Turkey on Wednesday after battling with forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, consolidating their grip on a border zone that until now had remained under Assad’s control.