President Barack Obama has called on Israel and the Palestinians to relaunch formal talks on a peace process, during a three-way meeting in New York with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Nepal's Maoist premier has resigned over the crisis following his dismissal of the head of the army for refusing to integrate former Maoist rebels into the ranks. Nepal's centrist president told General Rookmangud Katawal (pictured) to remain.
Nepal's ruling Maoists warn that a row over the decision to sack the country's army chief for refusing to integrate former Maoist rebels into the ranks threatens the peace process. Nepal's centrist president has told the general to stay in his post.
Agathon Rwasa said 'Burundians can rest assured, we are not going to resume war,' at a demobilisation ceremony near Burundi's largest city, as he renounced 'armed struggle' following a peace deal reached with the government.
Egyptian-mediated reconciliation talks between Hamas and Palestinian Authority representatives are set to restart on Wednesday nearly two weeks after talks adjourned since both parties failed to agree on a power sharing deal.
Hamas vows to pursue those who fire rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel, pledging to "act against those responsible". The statements come as Israel and the Islamist group controlling Gaza hold Egypt-brokered talks on a lasting ceasefire.
It seems like old times in Northern Ireland: two British soldiers shot dead on Saturday in a hail of bullets and a policeman killed in an ambush on Monday. Is this the start of a new cycle of violence?
On a visit to Turkey, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised Ankara's role in mediating talks between Israel and Syria as two senior US officials made a rare visit to Syria, amid signs of friendlier US-Syria ties.
The senior US officials held the first high-level talks in Syria for four years said discusssions had been "constructive", in another sign of a warming of relations between the two countries.
Israel's security cabinet on Wednesday backed PM Ehud Olmert's insistence on the release of captured soldier Gilad Shalit, as a condition for a Gaza truce deal. Hamas has already rejected Israel's decision.
