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Commissioner Štefan Füle’s plan to focus on strengthening democratic institutions and public administration in EU accession candidate and potential candidate countries was welcomed by Foreign Affairs Committee MEPs on Wednesday. In a debate following the Commission’s approval of the 2014 EU enlargement package earlier the same day, many also stressed the need to communicate the concrete and visible results of the EU enlargement process better.

A Senegalese UN peacekeeper patrols along with a Malian soldier in Kidal in July 2013.

The United States has welcomed a decision from Canada's parliament to authorize airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq.

U.S. and Japanese officials on Wednesday laid out guidelines for significantly expanded security coordination between the two nations, in order to better respond to what one senior state department official described as "the modern threat environment."

North Korea is defending its human rights record, even while acknowledging it runs labor camps that have been slammed by rights groups as inhumane.

Asylum-seekers and economic migrants take to the seas, waiting out the dangerous journey in the boat's cramped cargo space.

Suspected U.S.-led airstrikes have struck near a key Syrian town along the Turkish border, where Kurdish fighters have spent weeks trying to hold off an advance by Islamic State militants.

North and South Korean warships exchanged warning shots near a disputed sea border Tuesday, days after the two sides agreed to high-level talks that many hope could improve inter-Korean relations.

EP president Martin Schulz and Italian president of the Chamber of Deputies Laura Boldrini

Australian jets have flown their first combat mission over Iraq as part of the international effort to combat Islamic State militants.