German Chancellor Angela Merkel stood by Germany's foreign policy in the wake of the Ukraine crisis and stressed the importance of a peaceful settlement of the conflict, in an interview published on Tuesday.
Russia on Monday blamed the United States and Ukraine for hampering the release of proposals on solving the Ukrainian crisis drafted by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
To the beat of deafening Carnival music and whistles, 30,000 revelers took to the streets of the western Greece city port of Patras on Sunday to celebrate life and beat the financial woes through satire.
Lebanese President Michel Suleiman asserted Monday that the proposed Geneva II conference to solve the Syrian crisis will be held on January 22, 2014 with the participation of 37 countries including Lebanon.
Syria's long-term crisis has displaced more than 450,000 Christian Syrians and killed more than a thousand of them, Gregory III Laham, Patriarch of the Church of Antioch and all East, told Xinhua in an interview on Thursday.
An Iranian deputy foreign minister headed to Moscow on Sunday to discuss latest regional developments with Russian officials, Press TV reported.
An agreement on the U.S. debt ceiling appeared to be emerging Tuesday after much back and forth between the Democrats and Republicans in Congress, but the battle will likely see round two early next year.
The U.S. economy should address post-crisis challenges including Government-Sponsored Enterprise (GSE) reform, the shadow banking market, and the "too big to fail" phenomenon.
The Group of 20 summit, which has played a vital role in stabilizing the world economy since the onset of the global financial crisis, needs to transform from crisis-response mode to crisis-prevention mode, said a U.S. expert on Tuesday.
The UN Refugee Agency ( UNHCR) on Thursday urged authorities in the Central African Republic (CAR) to take "immediate action" to protect civilians from the country's political crisis which has forced thousands to flee their homes in the capital of Bangui, a UN spokesperson said.
Debates over "too-big-to-fail" U.S. megabanks have shown no sign of a solution. A new bill proposed by two U.S. senators on whether the megabanks are over- or under-regulated bring the matter back to the focus.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon met Monday with European Commission Vice President Olli Rehn on eurozone crisis.
A fresh debt crisis may break out in the short or medium term, economic experts have warned at the Boao Forum for Asia, which opened on Sunday in south China's Hainan Province.
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