Eurasia

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.

Turkish Ambassador to Bulgaria İsmail Aramaz has been summoned to the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry in order to explain Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdağ’s recent remarks about Ankara’s intention to gain possession of a Plovdiv mosque and reopen it to prayers.

President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan on Wednesday received Romania’s outgoing Ambassador to Armenia Crina Prunariu.

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

Mali’s president-elect Ibrahim Boubacar Keita began the daunting task on Tuesday of planning the country’s recovery from political crisis, a military coup and war after his rival conceded defeat at the polls. Official results from the nationwide vote have not been announced, but Somaila Cisse congratulated Keita on his victory …

Though results of Mali’s presidential run-off are not to be released till Wednesday, the officialization of the sweeping victory of Ibrahim Boubacar Keiti (IBK) has turned to be a mere formality, as his rival Soumaila Cisse had admitted defeat on Monday evening and confirmed on Tuesday that he would not …

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.