Eurasia

Russian and U.S. senior diplomats agreed at their meeting in Geneva the Syrian opposition was not ready for a peace conference in Geneva, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday. “Taking into account the non-readiness of a number of Syrian government opponents to participate in the intra-Syrian talks without preconditions, it …

Russian President Vladimir Putin will pay a working visit to Armenia on December 1st or 2nd. Economic, political and strategic issues will be on the presidential meeting agenda, among other areas to be discussed. Yerevan will host an Armenian-Russian business forum on December 1 through 4, with Russian delegation to include 500 …

Morocco on Wednesday recalled its ambassador to Algeria for consultation on relations between the two countries, the Moroccan Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic called on Serbs on Thursday to vote in the repeated local elections in Kosovo at three polling stations in Kosovska Mitrovica.

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić has appointed Stanimir Vukičević as the new ambassador in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Zorica Tomić was dismissed from the

French President François Hollande’s long-awaited visit to Turkey will take place on Jan. 27-28. Hollande, whose election in 2012 was welcomed by Ankara due to his softer tone on the Turkish bid to join the European Union, has long been expected to visit Turkey. The decision

A Pakistan court Wednesday ordered the release of ex-president Pervez Musharraf from house arrest, two days after he was granted bail in connection with the attack on Islamabad’s Red Mosque. The former military ruler has already got bail in two other cases — the 2007 assassination of former prime minister …

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared that his country is awaiting a faster EU accession process. Erdogan’s comment came after Turkey began on Tuesday its 22nd round of EU accession negotiations called Chapter

Delegates of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and Germany started another round of nuclear talks with Iran on Thursday. The P5+1 group (Security Council members Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States plus Germany) was represented by EU High Representative for

UN-Arab League Joint Special Representative for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi said Tuesday that the tripartite meeting of the UN, Russia and the United States wasn’t able to set a date for the long delayed Syria peace talks, known as Geneva II.