Ministers agreed that troops can target drugs facilities financing Afghan insurgency. The U.N. estimates the drugs trade pumps up to US$100 million a year into the coffers of the Taliban fighters.
World Food Program spokesman Richard Lee accompanied workers handing out dried corn, vegetable oil and other aid in central Zimbabwe over the weekend for a mass distribution.
China has called on the U.S. to repatriate 17 Chinese Muslim detainees saying they are terrorists and should be brought to justice, Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang told a news conference.
Security in the city has been stepped in the wake of a suicide truck bomb that killed 55 people and destroyed the Marriott hotel on Sept. 20. There are fears of more attacks.
He said there was no evidence the detainees, held at Guantanamo for nearly seven years, were "enemy combatants" or a security risk, and that the U.S. Constitution prohibits indefinite detention without cause.
The streets around Parliament were littered with burned-out cars and debris from rioting Tuesday that degenerated into the worst political violence in more than 16 years.
The protests, held in large cities across the country, were planned weeks before the corruption scandal broke on Sunday night. Voters cite it as one of their top complaints about Garcia, whose approval rating has fallen.
