A final draft of a new global climate agreement was reached by negotiators in Paris on Saturday, ready for ministers to read and deal with sensitive political divergences next week.
The Paris climate talks entered stage of substantive negotiations on Tuesday as negotiators began to turn political will that their leaders expressed into concrete solutions to various disputes over a new climate agreement.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday notified Congress that he intended to sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), hours after the long-awaited text of the trade deal was released.
Australia's Trade Minister has said the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), alongside free trade agreements such as the one signed with China, will form the cornerstone of Australia's post-mining boom economy, after details of the TPP were released overnight.
Trade ministers of the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim countries have reached an agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade pact, but the final ratification of the ambitious deal in the TPP members' countries is far from certain, particularly in the United States.
New Zealand government leaders hailed the agreement of the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership ( TPP) deal on Tuesday, while opponents demanded to know what the country had traded away in the secretive five-year negotiations.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday said that "South Sudan stands at a crossroads," and called on all parties to demonstrate a genuine commitment to the peace agreement signed last month, including immediately halting military operations and forming the transitional government of national unity.
Hundreds of people participated in a protest in Sri Lanka on Monday urging the new government to refrain from signing a trade agreement with India.
U.S. House Speaker John Boehner on Thursday pledged that Republicans would continue to make every effort to scuttle the Iran nuclear deal.
Three more U.S. Democratic senators said Tuesday that they would support the Iran nuclear deal, giving President Brack Obama the votes he needs to prevent the Senate from passing a measure disapproving of the deal.
Australia's Treasurer Joe Hockey has warned colleagues that if the opposition blocks the China- Australia free trade agreement, China could walk away from the landmark deal.
Australia's opposition leader is under increasing pressure to support Australia's landmark free trade agreement (FTA) with China.
Chinese mainland and Taiwan negotiators signed two agreements concerning cross-Strait flight safety and taxation cooperation on Tuesday.
A senior Israeli official said on Wednesday that the world powers are withholding from Israel major parts of the nuclear agreement with Iran, contrary to assurances.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama praised the recently clinched Iranian nuclear deal in a phone conversation, the Kremlin press service said Wednesday.
The U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by phone, trying to reassure the latter by saying the Iran nuclear agreement will "verifiably" prevent it from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
European economic commissioner Pier Moscovici here on Monday said that the summit of the eurozone arrived Monday morning at an agreement that finally opens a way out of the impasse of recent weeks and permits, which was crucial in the eyes of the Commission, to keep Greece in the eurozone.
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