Algerian Brahimi to Replace Annan as Syria Envoy
Veteran Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi is expected to be appointed as the new UN-Arab League envoy for Syria, according to diplomatic sources.
Veteran Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi is expected to be appointed as the new UN-Arab League envoy for Syria, according to diplomatic sources.
Leaders of the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) have confirmed that they retreated from their stronghold in Aleppo amid massive regime bombardment.
Embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has appointed former Health Minister Wael al-Halqi to the post of the country's prime minister.
Russian authorities will work to curb excessive migration to the country's sparsely populated Far Eastern regions, as well as the emergence of immigrant enclaves nationwide, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has declared.
Russia's Defense Ministry has dismissed as "complete lies," the claims of the Syrian rebels from the Free Syrian Army Wednesday that it had killed a Russian general allegedly aiding the regime of Bashar al-Assad.
The Iranian foreign minister has confirmed that former members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards were among the Iranians captured by Syrian rebels near Damascus.
Belarus has asked Sweden to pull its diplomats out of Minsk after it said it is withdrawing all of its embassy staff from Stockholm, a statement said.
The Free Syrian Army (FSA) has claimed responsibility for killing a Russian general who was allegedly working as a consultant for the Syrian defense minister, in an announcement broadcast by Al Arabiya TV on Wednesday.
Syrian director Bassam Mohieddine, who was educated in Bulgaria, has been murdered during the continuing civil strife in his country.
The Standard & Poor's agency has cut Serbia's credit rating by a notch from stable to negative, BB-.
Russian prosecution has asked for three years in jail for three Pussy Riot members over a punk prayer in Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral calling for then-Prime Minister and current President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, to resign.
Iraq is to "review" relations with Turkey after Turkish Foreign Minister visited the disputed northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk without informing Baghdad, Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said on Tuesday.
The men who killed six and injured three at a Sikh temple near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US on Sunday, has been identified as Wade Michael Page, 40, a former US Army member between April 1992 and October 1998.
Russian opposition figurehead Alexei Navalny found a listening device in his office of the RosPil fund, which campaigns to expose corruption inside the Russian government, Navalny wrote on Twitter on Monday.
One of the three Pussy Riot punk band members on trial in a Moscow court on charges of hooliganism said on Monday that the accusation against them was absurd and illegal.
Italy's Prime Minister Mario Monti has issued a serious warning of a potential breakup of Europe, saying disagreements inside the euro area undermine the crisis response and EU future.
Syrian Prime Minister Riad Hijab has defected from President Bashar al-Assad's government, to join "the revolution", his spokesman said, as cited by BBC.
NASA's USD 2.6 B rover, Curiosity, successfully landed on Mars early on Monday.
The world marks Monday the 67th anniversary of the first use of nuclear weapons in war, the August 6, 1945 American bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
Seven people have been killed in a shooting at a Sikh temple in the US State of Wisconsin.
Greek police reportedly fear a terror attack against Israeli tourists of the kind that was staged in Bulgaria's Black Sea city of Burgas on July 18.
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