Washington - Conservative House Republican will review a plan on Wednesday to split the U.S. debt-limit matter from the federal shutdown in White House talks, lawmakers said.
Rome - The toll of ascertained deaths in the migrant shipwreck near the Italian island of Lampedusa rose to 232 on Monday, as divers recovered 38 bodies from under the boat that sank last week, local media reports said.
Istanbul - The Turkish capital of Istanbul will today host the two-day International Media seminar of the United Nations (UN) Middle East Peace Process.
Rome - Search teams on Sunday discovered more bodies from the fishing boat that sank on Thursday near to the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, bringing the number of those confirmed dead to 195.
Pretoria - A joint team of United Nations and international inspectors on Sunday began to oversee the process of dismantling and destroying Syria's chemical weapons production programme.
Washington - Senior House Republicans plan to see if they can end the fiscal standoff that shut down the US government by crafting a broader fiscal deal, aides said.
Rome - The death toll from the sinking of a migrant boat off an Italian island carrying about 500 people could well top 200.
Pretoria - The global march towards the elimination of inappropriate work by minors by 2016 has taken another step as the world descends on Brazil for the 3rd Global Conference on Child Labour.
New York – Visiting Foreign Minister of Iran, Mohammad Javad Zarif, met with the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday afternoon for the third time in two weeks.
Baku – Azerbaijan’s ambassador to Brazil, Elnur Sultanov, has met the mayor of the city of Salvador, Antonio Carlos Magalhaes Neto, during his visit to the country’s Bahia State.
