Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev and Serbian counterpart Tomislav Nikolić agreed on Wednesday that the two countries “need to intensify their relations.” This is especially in terms of economy, the two presidents said, and announced joint sessions of the two governments.

A member of the EU mission in Kosovo, EULEX, has been killed near the town of Zvečan in northern Kosovo. The media in Priština have also reported about the incident. According to them, the victim is a Lithuanian member of the EULEX police. 

The European Union Thursday congratulated Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita who will be publicly inaugurated today after winning landslide election victory in August. European Council President Herman Van Romnpuy and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso in a joint statement expressed

The first round of Mali’s legislative elections will be held on Nov. 24, according to the government. The date was unveiled at the end of a cabinet meeting chaired by President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, an official statement said.

The international community should provide more aid to help Lebanon allocate Syrian refugees, Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said Wednesday. “The international community must take its responsibility towards Lebanon, given that the latter has become the first hosting country,” Mikati said.

Several presidents from Africa and elsewhere have arrived in the Malian capital Bamako to participate in the swearing-in ceremony of newly elected President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita. The presidential inauguration is set to take place on Thursday at the March 26 Stadium in Bamako.

Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita will be publicly inaugurated on Thursday, in an elaborate ceremony with foreign dignitaries including French President Francois Hollande. Mr. Keita, who was sworn in as President on September 4, will welcome Mr. Hollande, his guest of honour, at the airport in the capital Bamako at …

The Dokki Misdemeanor Appeals Court will rule on 30 September on an appeal by former Prime Minister Hesham Qandil against an earlier verdict that sentenced him to one year and stripped him of his ministerial post. Qandil had received the sentence in April from a first instance court for failure …

Egyptian army and police troops Thursday launched a dawn clampdown on a restive area near Cairo where alleged backers of the deposed Islamist president Mohammad Mursi killed a dozen policemen last month. The forces, backed by armoured vehicles, stormed Kerdasa in the twin Cairo city of Giza, where they hunted …

Pakistan’s government informed the Lower House of the cabinet that it has planned to send the Afghan refugees back home by December 2015. The Federal Minister for States and Frontier Regions retired Lt Gen Abdul Qadir Baloch told the National Assembly on Thursday that the government has planned to complete …