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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.

In the immediate aftermath of the Oct. 26 Ukrainian elections, in which a pro-NATO bloc, including two neo-Nazi parties (Svoboda and the Radical Party), won a majority in the parliament, provocations against Russia have risen to the point that Lyndon LaRouche has warned that we could be moments away from world war. LaRouche made clear that such a global conflict, which could lead to the use of thermonuclear weapons, was not inevitable; however, all the pre-conditions were now in place for just such a war between NATO and Russia. He further warned that such a conflict would soon draw in China.

Germans are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel led several events Sunday, including the placing of a rose in one of the few remaining sections of the Wall to commemorate the 138 people killed in Berlin alone as they tried to flee the Soviet-allied state.

“European integration or closer relations with the Customs’ Union – this is the key issue of the election campaign,” declared a delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) at the end of a pre-electoral mission to the Republic of Moldova to assess the campaign and political climate prior to the 30 November parliamentary elections.

People fleeing violence in Bentiu, the capital of Unity state, South Sudan, arriving at UNMISS base on 15 April 2014 to seek shelter.