U.N. chemical weapons investigators are ready to visit Syria to investigate the use of chemical weapons, but a deal has yet to be reached with the Syrian government after two weeks of talks on safety assurances for the team, the United Nations said on Tuesday.

Syrian Prime Minister Wael Al-Halqi on Tuesday called on the Syrians displaced by the ongoing conflict to come back home. “Syria can accommodate all her sons and will emerge stronger from the crisis,” he said during a cabinet meeting chaired by him.

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan met with the Director of the Russian Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC), Alexander Fomin.

Members of Libya’s Berber community, angered over what they believe is their marginalisation, stormed the national assembly Tuesday. Berbers “who had been demonstrating outside the seat of the General National Congress, broke in to the chamber… ransacking

The European Union said on Wednesday that reports that protesters had been killed in a security force crackdown were “extremely worrying” and called for restraint from Egyptian authorities.

Egyptian security forces killed at least 30 people on Wednesday when they cleared a camp of Cairo protesters who were demanding the reinstatement of deposed President Mohamed Mursi, his Muslim Brotherhood movement said.

The Iraqi Ambassador to Serbia, Falah Abdul Hassan, discussed with the Serbian Parliament Speaker the mutual relations.

Turkey has requested Iran’s assistance to release the Turkish pilots kidnapped in Lebanon last week, according a Lebanese media report.

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has called for a “new beginning” in relations with India amid high tension over the disputed region of Kashmir, in comments published Tuesday.

The head of the rebel Free Syrian Army has visited the coastal province of Latakia, according to video footage, a show of force in President Bashar al-Assad’s family’s home province. Several villages in Latakia, which is a stronghold of Assad’s