Japan and the United States plan to arrange a summit between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and President Barack Obama on the fringes of the summit of the Group of Twenty ( G20) to be held in Russia early next month, according to local media.
A roundtable meeting on Pakistan- China Economic Cooperation on Wednesday urged Pakistani government to accelerate its efforts to remove all concerns, obstacles and problems faced by Chinese companies in Pakistan.
Top officials of the U.S. Federal Reserve remained divided on when to taper off the massive bond purchase program, revealed the minutes of the Fed's latest interest-setting group meeting released Wednesday.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry on Monday demanded an "official and satisfying explanation" from Britain on claims that Britain eavesdropped on Turkish Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek during a meeting in London in 2009, Turkish Daily News reported.
The first summit between U.S. President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping was "positive and constructive," and has achieved all the goals, a senior White House official said Saturday.
After months of tensions featuring heated talks of war and intensive saber rattling, North Korea and South Korea agreed earlier on Monday to hold their first high-level meeting in six years later this week.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Araqchi said Tuesday that Iran's nuclear position will not be affected by the result of the upcoming presidential election.
The two-day finance ministers and central bank governors meeting of the Group of Seven (G7) closed at the Hartwell House in Aylesbury of Buckinghamshire, southern England, on Saturday with no substantial agreements announced.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday he was satisfied with the level of cooperation between Russia and the United States.
Russia called for creating a nuclear free zone in the Middle East by the end of this year, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Saturday.
World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Pascal Lamy said on Thursday that members needed a change in mindset in order to gain the "early harvest" they want in a ministerial meeting due to be held in Bali, Indonesia in December.
Senior defense officials of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and eight other countries discussed regional security and cooperation in unconventional security here on Thursday.
In a fresh attempt to press for a swift political transition in conflict-torn Syria, a large gathering including senior officials of Syrian opposition and delegations from Western backers was held here in Paris on Monday.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting 2013 opened here on Tuesday evening under the theme "resilient dynamism."
Cuban leader Raul Castro and his brother and predecessor Fidel Castro met here on Sunday with top Venezuelan officials visiting the Caribbean island country, the Cuban Communist Party's newspaper Granma said Monday.
Greece's lenders were "close to an agreement," but would meet again Monday to decide on the release of desperately needed bail-out funds, the Eurogroup chief said early Wednesday.
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