The President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, discussed bilateral relations over the phone with his Pakistani counterpart, Asif Ali Zardari — said an official press release here on Sunday.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed the need to find a political solution to the ongoing conflict in Syria as well as to renew momentum for the holding of an international conference to achieve that goal, as he discussed the crisis with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

Michael Mann, a spokesperson for European Union (EU) Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton said on Thursday that the EU has no intention to stop providing help to Egypt.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called on Egyptians to prevent the further loss of life amid heightened tensions between supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi and the interim government.

The US State Department said Egypt’s political crisis will require compromise and there is still time for dialogue. US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said talks in Cairo with envoys from the United States, European Union, Qatar

Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin will arrive in Azerbaijan Tuesday on a working visit. As a result of the talks to be conducted with Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev, five

The head of the European Union’s electoral observation mission in Mali has hailed the second round of the country’s presidential election polls.

Malians voted in a presidential runoff yesterday with former Prime Minister Ibrahim Boubacar Keita the frontrunner in an election which is critical to restoring stability after a military coup and Islamist rebellion last year. The winner will oversee more than $4 billion in foreign aid promised to rebuild the

Malians on Monday awaited the outcome of a presidential election run-off they hope will usher in a new dawn of stability following a military coup which upended one of the region’s most stable democracies.

Tunisia’s Tamarod (Rebel) movement said Sunday that it had collected 1.6 million signatures demanding the dissolution of the country’s Constituent Assembly and resignation of the government.