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Clues could emerge this week whether America’s politically divided Congress will approve funds requested by President Barack Obama to address a surge of immigrants illegally crossing the southwestern U.S. border.

A delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) ad hoc Committee for the observation of the presidential election and of the early parliamentary elections in “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” was in Skopje on 10 July 2014.

Last May the European Parliament welcomed thousands of young people from across the continent

Russia's president has begun a six-day tour of Latin American countries.

Two children stand in front of a house that police said was destroyed in an Israeli air strike in Maghazi refugee camp in Center Gaza Strip.

Martin Schulz

European Parliament political groups quizzed Commission President-designate Jean-Claude Juncker on Tuesday and Wednesday, ahead of the plenary vote on his candidature, scheduled for 15 July. Mr Juncker requested a series of meetings with MEPs to seek Parliament’s support for his election and build a majority behind his programme.

The second day of high-level talks between the United States and China concluded Thursday in Beijing and the two sides appeared to make little headway on a range of security and economic issues.

The World Health Organization warned Thursday that 38 million people die each year from chronic diseases, which are preventable and treatable.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon briefs the Security Council on the crisis in Israel and Gaza.