Pretoria – South Africa and Sweden are set to strengthen bilateral relations when Home Affairs Minister Naledi Pandor travels to Stockholm to meet with her Swedish counterpart.
Pretoria - The first face-to-face meeting between the Syrian government and the opposition will today enter the second day in Geneva.
Davos - The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) concluded on Saturday on a note of cautious optimism about the world economy.
Davos - The global capital market, having been spoiled over the years by ample liquidity, may be put to the test with the US Federal Reserve's tapering of quantitative easing (QE) measures.
Montreux - The Syrian peace talks got off to a shaky start, with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Al Moualam criticising Syrian rebel groups for lacking ideas.
Davos - The World Economic Forum (WEF) started its annual meeting on Wednesday at the Swiss ski resort of Davos under the theme ‘Reshaping the World’.
Pretoria - International Relations and Cooperation Deputy Minister Ebrahim Ebrahim, who flew out to Yemen on Saturday to negotiate the release of South African teacher Pierre Korkie, is back in the country.
Ankara - Global unemployment has increased by five million in the last year, according to a report released by the International Labor Organisation (ILO).
Pretoria – South Africa’s International Relations and Cooperation Minister, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, is in Switzerland for a peace conference which hopes to break the stalemate in the three-year Syrian civil war.
Pretoria - In a major turn, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has withdrawn his invitation to Iran to attend a conference on ending the nearly three-year-old Syrian civil war, which is due to start at Montreux, Switzerland, on Wednesday.
