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The G7 group of leading economies, European countries and Gulf states pledged $1.8 billion in funding on Sept.29 for UN aid agencies struggling with the worst refugee crisis in 70 years.

The Working Group on Security of the Trilateral Contact Group, which involves representatives of Ukraine, Russia and the OSCE, reached an agreement on Tuesday on the withdrawal of tanks and other weapons from the frontline in eastern Ukraine.

The latest agreement supplements the Minsk ceasefire accords, which were signed in February.

The bottom line of the Syria talks between the U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin is that they agree that Syria today under Bashar al-Assad is no longer sustainable, but they disagree on the future of al-Assad himself.

Turkey needs a permanent and coherent public policy for nuclear energy, according to the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA). 

Saudi Arabia is about to behead a 21-year-old man and then crucify him to display his body in public. This same country was just chosen to head a U.N. Human Rights Council panel. If it weren’t so serious this would be funny!

UN General Secretary Ban Ki moon called on the European countries to ‘do more’ on the refugee crisis from the podium of the United Nations General Assembly.

Azerbaijan and the Armenia-backed breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh yesterday bickered about how many of their soldiers had been killed in clashes that have stoked fears of a wider conflict breaking out in the South Caucasus.

Skygazers were treated to a rare astronomical event yesterday when a swollen ?supermoon? and lunar eclipse combined for the first time in decades, showing Earth?s satellite bathed in blood-red light.

Iran's president said Sept. 27 that Syrian leader Bashar Assad must remain in power to fight extremist groups like the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group and must not be weakened, putting him at odds with the United States and key nations who insist Assad must go in order to achieve peace.

Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova has said that Bulgaria is to present a joint tourism product with "neighboring Balkan countries".