The governments of European Union (EU) member countries approved the proposal to relocate 120, 000 migrants by a majority vote on Tuesday amid fierce oppositions from several countries in central and eastern Europe.
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), meeting for a plenary session in Strasbourg, voted on Thursday in favor of a resolution on a new emergency relocation proposal for an increased number of asylum seekers.
Chinese President Xi Jinping left Beijing on Wednesday to attend the 7th BRICS summit and 15th SCO summit in Ufa of Russia.
Chinese President Xi Jinping left Beijing for the 9th G20 Summit in Brisbane and state visits to Australia, New Zealand and Fiji.
The European Commission has on Wednesday proposed an amendment to European Union (EU) budget rules, which would allow the concerned member states to defer their increased contributions payment until Sept. 1 next year.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday met with Argentine President Cristina Fernandez on the country's debt and its implications for sovereign debt restructuring efforts.
The international police agency Interpol said on Thursday that it has received a global alert request by Ukrainian authorities for the arrest of ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.
German state prosecutors have opened an investigation against former Agriculture Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich on suspicion of breach of official secrecy in connection with a child porn affair.
Latvia joined the eurozone on Wednesday as its 18th member, when the New Year fireworks cracked in the sky at midnight in the Latvian capital of Riga.
Fourteen members of the Taliban insurgent group surrendered in eastern Afghanistan's Kunar province, said the provincial governor on Wednesday. "A 14-member group of Taliban under Gulan Khan renounced the violence and joined the peace and reintegration process in Sawkai district earlier on Wednesday," governor Shujah ul-Mulk Jalala told Xinhua.
Eurozone finance ministers late Thursday agreed on the main features of a mechanism to allow the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) to directly inject capital into failed banks.
The Obama administration on Monday slapped fresh sanctions on a primary foreign exchange bank and four individuals in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea for their alleged role in the Asian country's nuclear and missile programs.
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