Cuban leader Raul Castro left Havana for a two-day state visit to Paris, France in a bid to bring in French investments to the country’s economy amid an ongoing normalization of political and economic ties with the United States.
A top aid from North Korea, who was in charge of relations with South Korea, has died from a car crash.
Germany will join France and several of its other allies in the mission to fight ISIS in Syria.
On Tuesday, France became the first EU nation to demand that the union invoke the mutual-defense clause.
The Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf pleaded with U.S. president Obama for assistance to help the country cope with the mounting Ebola crisis.
The Ukrainian government has claimed that Russia sent another column of armored vehicles into Ukraine, while Russia announced plans for a second convoy of aid.
In a worrying new development, several dozen trucks from a Russian aid convoy have entered Ukraine without their Red Cross observers and despite the fact that Ukrainian authorities have not checked all of the trucks for contraband.
As the Ukrainian military continues to consolidate its control over eastern Ukraine, an aid convoy sent from Moscow is being checked for contraband by Ukrainian border guards.
A long convoy of nearly 300 trucks has left Moscow for the Ukrainian city of Luhansk, with the ostensible purpose of providing aid and averting a humanitarian disaster.
