The government-backed Afghan High Peace Council on Wednesday finalized a draft peace agreement with Hizb-e-Islami, a militant group led by warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, paving the way for reaching a peace deal with the armed outfit, an official statement said.
U.S. President Barack Obama is defending his transatlantic trade deal on a visit to Germany though tens of thousands of Germans took to the street to oppose the bill.
The United States President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel defended a free trade agreement under negotiations between the U.S. and European Union on Sunday, saying the agreement will benefit the economy on both sides of the Atlantic.
India Tuesday said that it will soon sign a logistics supply pact with the United States, putting to rest all the speculation over the much-awaited agreement.
An agreement between Greece's privatization fund HRADF and China COSCO Shipping Corporation for the sale of the majority stake in Piraeus Port Authority (PPA) was signed on Friday in Athens. The agreement has been hailed by both Greece and China as creating a win-win situation for all parties.
Myanmar and Canada Thursday agreed on four points of cooperation, U Zaw Htay, spokesperson of the President's Office told the press.
The Indonesian Ministry of Transportation and an Indonesia-China joint venture firm for the Jakarta-Bandung high speed railway on Wednesday signed a concession agreement.
The European Union and Cuba signed an agreement on Friday to normalize relations 13 years after the unilateral suspension of ties by the EU.
Japan signed Monday an agreement with the Philippines on the transfer of defense equipment and technology.
India and the United States are closing in on an agreement to share military logistics after 12 years of talks, officials said, a sign of strengthening defence ties between the countries as China becomes increasingly assertive.
Sri Lanka's top business chamber on Thursday urged the government to be more transparent over a new Economic and Technical Cooperation Agreement (ETCA) with India.
Indonesia should consider joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement as part of a strategy to reduce dependency on China, which mostly consumes raw materials and low-grade products, an economist has said.
South Korea's wartime sex slavery victims on Wednesday refused to receive reparations from the Japanese government, calling the Seoul-Tokyo agreement on the war crime a "nullification."
South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Wednesday urged Japan to play its role in implementing the bilateral agreement on Japan's wartime sex slavery of Korean women during World War Two.
The high-profile agreement stricken between South Korea and Japan on the issue of "comfort women" has drawn global applause as well as dubiousness over the motives of reaching such a deal and its real effect.
The historic Paris Agreement adopted here on Saturday with no objection by the 196 parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change during the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties is seen as a new chapter for humanity in tackling climate change issues after the year 2020.
China called for implementation on Saturday after a historic deal was sealed in Paris on global efforts to combat climate change.
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