Qatar appeared defiant as Saudi Arabia and its allies on Monday extended a deadline for Doha to accept a series of demands to lift a de facto blockade.

In line with the importance Turkey attaches to the peaceful resolution of conflicts and mediation, the fourth Istanbul Conference on Mediation will convene on 30 June 2017 themed “Surge in Diplomacy, Action in Mediation”.

Brazil's Supreme Court yesterday sent a corruption charge against President Michel Temer to Congress for it to decide whether the president should be put on trial.

The Serbian parliament yesterday voted in Ana Brnabic, an openly gay woman, as the country's Prime Minister in a landmark move for the patriarchal conservative country and the entire Balkans region.

British Prime Minister Theresa May narrowly won a confidence vote in parliament yesterday, highlighting the weakness of her Conservative Party which lost its majority in a shock general election result earlier this month.

US President Donald Trump's ban on refugees and travellers from six mainly Muslim countries went into effect late yesterday, after Supreme Court decision allowed it to go forward following a five-month battle with rights groups.

The Romanian parliament yesterday approved the Social Democrat government of new Prime Minister Mihai Tudose, despite controversy over its economic plans.

Israel hit a Syrian regime position on Wednesday night after stray mortar fire from the war-torn country struck the occupied Golan Heights, in the third such exchange within a week.

The Czech parliament on Wednesday passed a constitutional amendment that challenges EU gun control rules by allowing legal firearms holders to use them when national security is threatened, including during terrorist attacks.