German Chancellor Angela Merkel is due in Washington for talks with US President Barack Obama and a speech before Congress two decades after the Berlin Wall fell. The trip will focus on issues including Afghanistan, Iran, and climate change.
The reported four-year sentence handed down to an Iranian worker at the British embassy in Tehran is "an attack against the entire diplomatic community in Iran," according to British Foreign Minister David Miliband.
Armenian President Serzh Sarksyan made a landmark visit to Turkey for the Turkey-Armenia World Cup qualifier match on Wednesday, heralding a new era of diplomatic co-operation between the two countries.
North Korea has expressed regret over the deaths of six people as a result of the Imjin River incident, South Korean officials said. The rare admission of fault comes as Pyongyang suggested it would return to nuclear talks.
Days after the foreign ministers of Turkey and Armenia signed landmark diplomatic deals (photo), Armenian President Serzh Sarksyan will join his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul to watch a symbolic football match in the Turkish city of Bursa Wednesda
Burma's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi met with Western diplomats in Yangon, following a letter that she sent to the secretive military junta proposing ways to get sanctions lifted.
Turkish President Abdullah Gul flew into France on Wednesday, officially in the context of a Turkish cultural season in France. But he is also expected to lobby hard for Turkey's bid for EU membership.
Somalia's junior defence minister, Youssuf Mohamed Siad, has been released after being mistakenly arrested by Ugandan security forces overnight. The Somali government described the powerful Mogadishu warlord's arrest as a "humiliation".
"Appalled and outraged", US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said Guinea's military junta must recognise it "cannot remain in power", as international pressure mounts following last month's killings and rapes of opposition supporters.
Somali Defence Minister Youssuf Mohamed Siad (pictured) was detained by Ugandan security agents during a visit to Kampala. Ugandan officials said the minister was not kidnapped and is safe, a claim confirmed by Mogadishu.
