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Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura.

A draft law that would oblige airlines to hand EU countries the data of passengers entering or leaving the EU, in order to help fight serious crime and terrorism, will be discussed with the Commission and Council in the Civil Liberties Committee on Tuesday. Debate on the EU Passenger Name Record (PNR) proposal, tabled in 2011, has gained momentum due to worries that Europeans returning home after fighting for the so-called “Islamic State” could pose a threat to the EU's internal security.

Senior U.S. State Department officials said talks with Iran over its controversial nuclear program have been “tough, direct and serious.” But they declined to say if progress was made during trilateral negotiations that also included the European Union.

“UNICEF condemns the cruel attack on the Government Science Technical School Potiskum in Yobe State, Nigeria, which killed dozens of children and injured many more.

Destruction in the ancient city of Aleppo, Syria.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe have met for formal talks for the first time since the two leaders took office in 2013 and 2012, respectively.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton have begun a second day of talks in Oman as a deadline for a comprehensive nuclear agreement with Iran approaches.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expanded his Cabinet to give more focus on improving the country's economy.

Twenty-one new ministers took the oath of office at a brief ceremony Sunday at the presidential palace in New Delhi.

Iraqi military forces reached the center of the northern city of Baiji on Sunday to try to break an Islamic State siege of the country's biggest refinery nearby, triggering fierce clashes with the militants, according to an army colonel and a witness.

The Obama Administration may be prepared to try to lull the American people into complacency about the danger of the Ebola epidemic now ravaging West Africa, spreading into a global disaster, but the U.S. military is not. Last week, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Secretary of Defense openly broke with Administration policy, and took action to not only defend the members of the military now participating in operations in West Africa, but to commission an honest scientific study on the transmission of the disease.