The international conference called “Middle East 2020: Is the Comprehensive Settlement Possible?” will open in Jordan on Sunday.

// Dec. 20, 2009 - 00:08 GMT

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has sacked the governor of Georgia's western Imereti Region after two people were killed in the Saturday's explosion in Georgia's second largest city, Kutaisi

// Dec. 20, 2009 - 00:40 GMT

The Colombian government has announced its plans to build a new military base near its border with Venezuela as part of a program aimed at stepping up military presence in the area.

// Dec. 20, 2009 - 01:17 GMT

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri have agreed to repair relations between the two countries during their first meeting in the Syrian capital, Damascus.

// Dec. 20, 2009 - 02:41 GMT

A powerful storm broke in two a Moldova-flagged cargo vessel off the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi in the early hours of Sunday

// Dec. 20, 2009 - 03:10 GMT

Three Iranian prison officials have been charged with killing imprisoned protesters arrested in the aftermath of the June presidential election

// Dec. 20, 2009 - 04:19 GMT

Twenty Uygur asylum seekers who fled to Cambodia after July's deadly ethnic riots in China's city of Urumqi, were deported back to China

// Dec. 20, 2009 - 04:58 GMT

Eurostar trains carrying passengers in the undersea Channel Tunnel between Britain and France will remain suspended on Sunday over concerns of freezing weather, the rail operator has said.

// Dec. 20, 2009 - 06:05 GMT

Gas supply in the north of Russia's North Caucasus Republic of Ingushetia has restarted after an accident at the trunk pipeline, the republic's emergencies ministry said on Sunday.

// Dec. 20, 2009 - 07:17 GMT

The accident with a Moldova-flagged cargo vessel, which broke into two during a powerful storm off Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi, did not cause any oil spill, the regional emergencies ministry said Sunday.

// Dec. 20, 2009 - 08:11 GMT