Eurasia

New talks between Belgrade and Pristina delegations at the expert level continue today and tomorrow in Brussels. The main topic is the preparations for the local elections in Kosovo.

Kurds in Syria should partake in the opposition group Syrian National Coalition (SNC), Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has said. Davutoglu’s call comes a week after high-ranking officials from Turkey’s political and security circles met two visiting Kurdish politicians

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns is visiting Cairo beginning today, the State Department announced on Friday. Secretary of State John Kerry asked Burns to visit Egypt again to discuss with Egyptian leaders “the

Croatian President Ivo Josipović says the present relations between his country and Serbia are “most burdened by the past.” But he also noted that his first official meeting with his Serbian counterpart Tomislav Nikolić, expected to take place

Turkish Armed Forces opened return fire on the Syrian border on July 31, a statement posted on the Turkish Armed Forces website says. According to the report, the fire was opened in response to attacks from the Syrian side on the Turkish border.

Mali will hold a presidential run-off vote on August 11, after no candidate won a majority in Sunday’s election. Figures released by the government Friday showed

The US ambassador to Kosovo has called on local Serbs to show a high turnout at the forthcoming Pristina-run elections in November. Speaking in Serbian in a live interview on Radio Television Kosovo 2 on Thursday, US ambassador

Senior EU diplomat Bernardino León said that the organisation had been trying ‘for months’ prior to Morsi’s ouster to persuade the Brotherhood to share power. León, who arrived in Cairo on Wednesday, said that that there is a “big gap between both sides” but that there are “signs of hope.”

Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev and National Ombudsman Konstantin Penchev have agreed that there is a real risk of a mightier protest wave in the country in the autumn, after the summer recess of Parliament, if the demands of the demonstrators remain unheard.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan held two phone conversations with his French counterpart Jean-Marc Ayrault and German Chancellor Angela Merkel over the latest developments in Syria and Egypt.