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China has told a top North Korean envoy it wants a peaceful, denuclearised Korean Peninsula, and says the emissary warned there is "no guarantee of peace".
A UN official says China has offered to contribute troops to a new UN peacekeeping mission in Mali.
China has offered to send more than 500 soldiers to the UN force seeking to contain Islamist militants in Mali in what would be its biggest contribution to the UN peacekeeping, diplomats say.
Chinese vice premier Wang Yang has urged Zimbabwe to ensure peace and political stability ahead of elections this year.
Pope Francis has issued his first appeal directed at Catholics in China, long the source of concern for his predecessor Benedict XVI.
Authorities in southern China say a mentally ill man stabbed six primary school students and an adult in the latest of several attacks on Chinese schoolchildren.
Chinese authorities have arrested 13 people for internet posts that sparked a rare protest in Beijing, highlighting tensions between officials and migrant workers, police say.
North Korea has sent a top military official to China as a personal envoy of leader Kim Jong-Un, at a time of strained relations with Beijing and ahead of a key China-US summit.
Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang is in Zimbabwe on a business visit and is set to meet President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai separately.
There's a new Bolt in town - the world's most expensive lightning-fast pigeon, which has just been sold for €310 000.
A Chinese boat and 16 fishermen seized for ransom by armed North Koreans two weeks ago have been released, easing the latest irritant in relations between the neighbouring allies.
A businesswoman in southern China has been sentenced to death in the government's latest crackdown on underground lending that is widely used by entrepreneurs.
Police in central China have detained the 18-year-old organiser of a gay pride march in a sign of the government's nervousness over a growing civil society and demands for stronger individual rights.
The Chinese Embassy in Pyongyang has asked North Korea to release a private Chinese fishing boat and its crew soon after its owner reported the detention 10 days ago, state media says.
China's human H7N9 bird flu outbreak has cost the country's poultry industry more than $65bn as consumers shun chicken, government officials say.
