LONDON -- Britain's new Prime Minister Boris Johnson launched a massive recruitment drive Friday to start hiring 20,000 police officers in a fight against rising violent crime.

"As I said on the steps of Downing Street this week, my job as prime minister is to make our streets safer. People want to see more officers in their neighborhoods, protecting the public and cutting crime," Johnson said. "I promised 20,000 extra officers and that recruitment will now start in earnest."

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BRASILIA -- China-Latin America cooperation is in line with the needs of both sides and is neither directed at third parties nor affected by third parties, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said here on Thursday.

Latin America is a continent full of vigor, and has great potential for cooperation with China. Latin American and Caribbean countries are all developing countries and emerging economies, and they have common interests with China, Wang said.

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HAVANA -- Barely 10 days after being put into service, Chinese-built trains have more than doubled passenger capacity along the key route linking the easternmost town of southeast province of Guantanamo with Cuba's capital Havana.

"Since they began operating on July 13, the Chinese trains have carried more than 23,000 people, which means moving more than twice the figure we reached with the old railway system," Minister of Transportation Eduardo Rodriguez told Xinhua.

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MOSCOW -- Sailors on board of the Russian tanker detained in the Ukrainian port of Izmail have not been charged with anything by Kiev and will soon return to Moscow, Russian Commissioner for Human Rights Tatyana Moskalkova said Thursday.

"Ten sailors, citizens of the Russian Federation, are currently traveling from Ukraine to Moldova on a bus ... Their passports have been checked and they were put on a bus en route to Moldova, from where they will fly to Moscow," Moskalkova was quoted by RIA Novosti news agency as saying. Enditem

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