Adli Mansour was on Thursday sworn in as interim head of state at the Supreme Constitutional Court in Cairo, Egypt. This came a day after the military overthrew President Muhamed Morsi in a coup.

Georgia will continue its aspiration for NATO membership. A meeting of the Euro-Atlantic Council held in Tbilisi last week testified to this, Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili said. 

Out of 36 applications for the July 28 presidential elections, Mali’s Constitutional Court has approved 28 names, according to its president Amadi Tamba Camara.

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić talked with a delegation of the Slovenian parliament led by Parliament Speaker Janko Veber in Belgrade.

Rasim Ljajić says Priština “first accepted the proposed solution for telecommunications but now wants to change what has been agreed.” The Serbian minister of trade and telecommunications added on Wednesday that Belgrade “expects the EU to defend the agreed position.”

A proposed peace conference on Syria will likely not happen until at least September, Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday, July 2, after meeting here with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Kerry spoke privately with Lavrov for nearly

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday met with Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta, pledging to push forward cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. Ponta is visiting China to attend the local

Romanian Foreign Minister Titus Corlăţean is to visit Macedonia on Wednesday. He is to meet with his Macedonian counterpart Nikola Poposki. They are expected to sign a bilateral cooperation agreement.

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has rejected an ultimatum set by the country’s army to reach an agreement with his opponents to end the political crisis. The Egyptian military on Monday gave 48 hours, demanding that a solution be reached on the political crisis

Egypt’s military on Monday issued a 48-hour ultimatum to the Islamist president and his opponents to reach an agreement to “meet the people’s demands” or it will intervene to put forward a political road map for the country and ensure it is carried out.