EU turns to African leaders to stem migrant crisisEU leaders will push their wary African counterparts to help tackle the migration crisis at a summit in Malta this week, offering them billions of euros in aid in exchange for cooperation
Iran appoints first woman ambassador since revolutionIran has appointed its first woman ambassador since the 1979 Islamic revolution, naming foreign ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham to head its embassy in Malaysia.
09 November 2015
Obama rejects Canada's Keystone XL pipeline to USUS President Barack Obama on Friday blocked the Keystone XL oil pipeline that Canada sought to build into the United States, ruling it would harm the fight against climate change.
Trudeau says Canada ready to settle 25,000 Syrian refugeesCanada's new prime minister vowed to make good on campaign promises to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees by the beginning of next year and bring home fighter jets battling the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.
06 November 2015
Suu Kyi eyes historic win in Myanmar electionsMyanmar's boisterous election campaign draws to a close Friday, two days before milestone polls that could finally propel Aung San Suu Kyi's pro-democracy party to power after a decades-long struggle against the military.
06 November 2015
True colours: China summit foments Taiwan's green-blue splitThe colours blue and green symbolise the rift between opposing political parties in Taiwan, an entrenched divide that polarises friends and families, with this weekend's historic China summit adding fuel to the fire.
Second Baltic pipeline will cost Ukraine $2bn a year: PMUkrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk blasted a planned second gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea, claiming it would cost his country $2 billion (1.8 billion euros) a year in lost revenue.
06 November 2015
Germany to speed up repatriations of rejected asylum-seekersGermany plans to speed up repatriations of rejected asylum-seekers from new central hubs, Chancellor Angela Merkel and her coalition allies agreed, vowing to bring order to a record migrant influx.
Nazarbayev arrives in ParisPresident of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has arrived in Paris for an official visit.
05 November 2015
Beijing using historic Taiwan meet as decoy: analystsBeijing is casting itself as the peacemaker in this weekend's historic summit with Taiwan, but experts say it is at least partly aiming to draw attention away from its aggressive expansionism in the South China Sea.
05 November 2015
Croatia votes as migrants flow in, economy languishesCroatians vote in a general election as the nation faces an ongoing influx of refugees -- a crisis that rival political camps have tried to exploit, while lacking concrete policy pledges to kickstart the sluggish economy.
05 November 2015
Romanian PM quits over club blaze, but protesters unsatisfiedRomania's embattled Prime Minister Victor Ponta resigned, after a deadly nightclub blaze prompted mass demonstrations, but his move failed to stop tens of thousands from taking to the streets for a second night.