The Philippine government is ready to engage the leftist National Democratic Front (NDF) in discussing the major substantive agenda when the next round of formal talks resume later this week in Italy, a senior government official said Monday.
South Korean opposition parties on Monday denounced Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for his comments on the agreement for the South Korean victims of Japan's wartime sex slavery.
South Korean gender equality minister regretted that the Seoul-Tokyo agreement on Japan's wartime sex slaves has gone undervalued among the local public, particularly in terms of the Japanese government's donation of a huge fund for the women.
Students and civic group activists advocating South Korean "comfort women" victims gathered once again in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul at 11 a.m. on Wednesday for their weekly rally.
In a part-session debate in Brussels on Wednesday evening, Members of European Parliament (MEPs) argued over the need for the speedy implementation of the EU-U.S. Data Protection agreement before the end of U.S. President Barack Obama's term of office ends in January.
Top OPEC oil exporter Saudi Arabia has told the producer group it will not attend talks on Monday with non-OPEC producers to discuss limiting supply, OPEC sources said, as it wants to focus on having consensus within the organization first.
The Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) signed on Saturday a new peace agreement after days of negotiations in Havana, a possible lasting deal to end over 50 years of armed conflicts in the country.
Colombia's former president and current senator Alvaro Uribe has shown himself to still be a popular leader capable of gathering large-scale support for his arguments against a peace agreement with the rebels.
Colombia woke up to political confusion on Monday, a day after a referendum narrowly rejected a peace agreement between the government of President Juan Manuel Santos and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
Japan and India are likely to sign a civil nuclear cooperation pact during a visit to Japan by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in mid-November, the Mainichi newspaper reported on Saturday.
After over five decades of war, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and FARC commander in chief Timoleon Jimenez met here to start a new chapter in the country's history.
The international community has welcomed the ratification of the Paris Agreement by the world's two largest economies on Saturday, lauding the move as an important step toward the deal's early entry into force and for the battle against global warming.
India and the United States signed a major defense agreement that will allow the two countries to use each other's military bases, officials said Tuesday.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Tuesday welcomed the signing of a roadmap agreement by Sudanese opposition groups to end conflicts in Sudan.
A Peruvian official has warned about the future of Peru's free trade agreement with the European Union (EU) after Britain's exit and urged London to keep the agreement's essence.
The United States will continue to talk with the EU on the Transatlantic Trade Investment Partnership (TTIP) agreement, despite Britain's vote to leave the EU.
Fifteen associations of history scholars and educators in Japan issued a joint statement here on Monday, demanding the related parties sincerely face the "comfort women" issue so as to fundamentally solve this problem.
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