Politburo

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday he had had an excellent meeting with Chen Wenqing, a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission of the CCP Central Committee.

Vucic thanked China for supporting the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Serbia.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and other top officials discussed revising stringent anti-epidemic restrictions during a meeting Sunday, state media reported, as they maintained a widely disputed claim that the country's first COVID-19 outbreak is slowing.

The US State Department has announced visa restrictions for a number of Chinese government officials and members of the ruling Communist Party, writes Reuters.

Chinese politicians are suspected of harbouring Islamist minorities in northwest China's Xinjiang province.

A plane carrying several senior Laotian government officials crashed Saturday morning, killing at least 3 people, a Laotian diplomat, quoted by The New York Times said.

Killed in the crash were the deputy prime minister, Douangchay Phichit, and the governor of Vientiane province.