Three Malian soldiers were wounded in clashes with separatist Tuareg rebels on Wednesday, the army said, the first clashes since the two sides signed a ceasefire deal in June.

UN experts would “probably” publish their findings on an chemicalattack in Syria on Monday, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Thursday. In an interview with RTL radio, the minister stressed there was no doubt that forces loyalto Syrian 

US secretary of state John Kerry has arrived in Geneva to meet Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov as the UN tries to forge an international plan to disarm the Syrian government of its chemical weapons.