Chinese authorities on March 29 called for joint efforts to be made to reduce tensions on the Korean peninsula, AFP reported.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered the country's rocket units to stand by to fire at U.S. bases in South Korea and the Pacific, Reuters reported March 29.

South Africa deployed 200 soldiers to Uganda on March 28, Reuters reported.

Rebel mortar rounds killed 15 students at Damascus University on March 28, Reuters reported, citing Syrian state-run news agency SANA.

The Free Syria Army struck an Iranian military cargo plane as it approached Damascus on March 28, NOW reported.

Two nuclear-capable U.S. B-2 stealth bombers flew over South Korea on March 28, AFP reported.

North Korea is cutting a military hotline with South Korea, meaning all direct contact between the two countries' militaries and governments has been severed, AFP reported March 27, citing North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency.

Uganda will not withdraw its forces in the Central African Republic that are hunting for Lord's Resistance Army fighters, even though Seleka leaders, who recently took power in Bangui, have threatened to expel foreign forces, Reuters reported March 26, citing Ugandan military sources.

Some residents of Bangui reported rampant looting after Seleka rebels entered the Central African Republic capital March 23, Xinhua reported March 25.