Chinese Premier Li Keqiang will visit Romania and Uzbekistan from November 25 to 29, a Foreign Ministry spokesman announced on Monday. Li will pay an official visit to Romania and attend a China-Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) leaders’ meeting as a guest of Romanian Prime Minister Victor-Viorel Ponta, Qin Guang

Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dačić has said the U.S. supports Serbia’s efforts to get the date of the first intergovernmental conference with the EU as soon as possible. The prime minister on Monday in New York met with the U.S. permanent representative to the UN, Samantha Power, and said afterwards

Lebanese officials condemned the deadly bombings that targeted the Iranian Embassy in Beirut Tuesday and stressed the need to distance the country from regional turmoil. “We condemn this cowardly terrorist act which is aimed at inciting tensions in Lebanon and using the country as an arena to send political messages,” said caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati.

Thousands of tribal chieftains and politicians will gather this week in the Afghan capital to discuss a security pact with the United States which will shape Washington’s future military presence in the war-scarred nation. The bilateral security agreement (BSA) will determine how many US soldiers stay in Afghanistan when most …

At least 7 people have been killed in the Lebanese capital Beirut in two large explosions, seemingly targeted at the Iranian embassy. Local authorities have revealed that the Iranian Ambassador is safe.

The United States has agreed to provide basic combat training for 5,000 to 8,000 Libyan military personnel, Defense Department spokesman Steve Warren said Monday. The training mission is still being planned, and is slated to take place at a base in Bulgaria,Warren said during a Pentagon briefing. He provided

The Syrian government troops have started a large-scale offensive on the northern outskirts of Damascus, after tightening the screws on rebels in the southern rim of the capital. The forces have been besieging the town of Qara in the al- Qalamoun mountains north of Damascus and near the border with

The UN Security Council will hold a session in New York on Tuesday when Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will present his latest report on the situation in Kosovo. The report of the UN security general sums up the situation in the period from July 16 to October 15 and points …

The presidents of arch-foes Armenia and Azerbaijan will meet in Vienna Nov. 19 for the first time in two years in a bid to restart stalled negotiations over the disputed region of Nagorny Karabakh, mediators said. Armenia’s Serzh

Russia on Saturday finally handed over a refurbished ex-Soviet aircraft carrier to India after a refit that overran by five years and went vastly over budget, damaging ties between the countries. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin and Indian Defence Minister A.K. Antony took part in a ceremony at the Arctic port of Severodvinsk on Saturday morning.