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Protesters camped out in Hong Kong for a fifth consecutive day are threatening to expand their campaign of civil disobedience if the territory's chief executive does not meet their demand for democratic reforms.

The director of the U.S. Secret Service will testify before a U.S. House committee Tuesday about a major security breach at the White House earlier this month.

Global Citizens Festival 2014, Central Park, NYC. Pictured l to r, Global Citizen Project Co-founder Hugh Evans; World Bank President Jim Young Kim, actor Hugh Jackman, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the group No Doubt.

India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, meets President Obama at the White House Monday in what the Obama administration says is an effort by both countries to build a new strategic alliance. Modi was greeted in New York Sunday by enthusiastic members of the Indian diaspora.

Hong Kong authorities say they are withdrawing riot police from city streets as pro-democracy protests appear to be calming down.

U.S. intelligence agencies underestimated Islamic State activity inside Syria, which has become “ground zero” for jihadists worldwide, President Barack Obama said in a CBS television interview broadcast on Sunday.

Hong Kong’s leader has pledged to hold election reform talks soon in response to growing street protests in the port city.

At the gas talks in Berlin, Vice-President Guenther Oettinger proposed a new compromise to secure gas supplies to Europe and the Ukraine during the winter season.

On the margins of the UN-General Assembly in New York, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter launched a discussion on how to overcome the crisis of European security that has deepened in the face of the crisis in and around Ukraine. At the informal meeting attended by more than 25 foreign ministers and representatives of around 35 OSCE participating States as well as representatives of partner States and security organizations, Burkhalter sketched out three avenues towards reconsolidating European security as a common project and invited participants to outline their views on how best to proceed.

In the referendum on the independence of Scotland, London once again got its way, by the skin of its teeth—at least for the time being—thanks to a massive campaign of scare tactics. But even the New York Times commented that the anger expressed in Scotland against Westminster’s policies—in favor of the super-rich, imperial wars, etc.—is paradigmatic of the growing anger of the populations of the United States and the Eurozone about the blatant failure of the establishment’s policy.