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Vast areas of land and sea have become environmental sanctuaries in recent years but the world is not funding them adequately, the United Nations warned Nov. 13.

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said that countries were on track to meet targets to protect 17 percent of land and 10 percent of marine areas by 2020.

The midterm Congressional Elections in the U.S. on Nov. 4 marked a setback for the Obama Administration, as Republicans gained control of both houses of Congress for the first time since 2006.

Congress members returning to Capitol Hill next week will face a debate over President Barack Obama’s new $5.6 billion plan to broadly expand the U.S. mission in Iraq and send up to 1,500 more American troops to the war-torn nation.

President Barack Obama said on Nov. 5 he would seek fresh authorization from Congress in the next few weeks for the U.S. military campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), taking a new approach to congressional backing for the fight.

Republicans won control of the U.S. Senate and bolstered their majority in the House of Representatives as Americans delivered a stinging rebuke to President Barack Obama in elections Nov. 4. Obama now faces the final two years of his presidency contending with a Congress fully controlled by a party that firmly opposes his policies.

The peace process appears to be near collapse as the government has reportedly decided to freeze dialogue with the related parties following consecutive attacks on members of the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK).

Kobane, a dusty town on Syria’s border with Turkey, has been a battleground between the defending Syrian Kurdish forces and the besieging militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) for weeks. As the fighting continues to rage, the etymology of the town’s name is now also being contested.

BELGRADE - Serbia's First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic and Chairman of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on European Affairs Christopher Murphy discussed on Wednesday further improvement in political dialogue and cooperation between the two countries.

The Turkish capital of Ankara will host the 7th International Energy Congress and Fair between Nov. 24 and 25.

President Traian Basescu has stated on Saturday, at the Christian Democratic National Peasant Party (PNTCD) Extraordinary Congress that is taking place in Poiana Brasov, that the Revolution of 1989 was confiscated by the successors of former communists, that are, in his opinion, extremely "toxic" to the future of Romania, because "the world tends give them credit due to their yout