China's President Xi Jinping received Taiwan's main opposition party leader on Friday, in a rare meeting which saw both sides stress a desire for cross-strait peace.

Cameroon's Supreme Court on Thursday announced the decision to order a retrial for 10 separatist leaders who were sentenced to life imprisonment by a military court.

Moscow has once again urged Tbilisi to sign a legally binding agreement pledging not to use force against Georgia’s Russian-backed separatist regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The appeal followed a statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry after the 65th round of Geneva discussions on security and stability in the South Caucasus, News.Az reports, citing Georgian media.

In the criminal court case of Ruben Vardanyan, a full list of weapons and equipment transferred by Armenia to the former separatist regime in Karabakh was presented.

Police in Barcelona are hunting for the separatist former leader of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, who made a dramatic return to Spain after a seven-year exile despite facing an outstanding arrest warrant, News.az reports citing BBC .