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Night raids on suspected militant in Afghanistan will cease if it means troops have to go into local villages.

Syrian refugees wait to register and get assistance from the Jordan Red Crescent.

Iran has warned that the US won't be safe from retaliation if the Islamic republic was attacked, according to a newspaper report quoting a senior army commander in Tehran.

India joined the elite club of United States, UK, Russia, France and China with the induction of nuclear power submarine Nerpa on Wednesday, giving a strategic advantage to the operations of the Indian Navy.

Special Representative Augustine Mahiga.

With €53 billion of development aid in 2011, the European Union and its 27 Member States remains the world biggest donor, providing more than half of global official aid, preliminary figures on official development aid published by the OECD reveal today. At a time of heavy budgetary constraints, 16 Member States managed to increase their aid, three of them are ranked among the five largest donors worldwide and four of them have already reached the target of spending 0.7% of their Gross National Income (GNI) on aid. EU official development aid reached 0.42% of EU GNI, which exceeds the efforts of other major donors. However, efforts are still needed to reach the agreed target of 0.7% EU GNI by 2015.

Southeast Asian leaders say they will rush to reach a unified position on resolving competing territorial claims in the South China Sea. During the final day of a key Association of Southeast Asian Nations leaders summit in Phnom Penh, negotiators struggled to reach a consensus on how to approach the disputes with China.

South Sudan has accused the Khartoum government of rejecting peace overtures while its forces bomb targets in the south. As a result, African Union-mediated talks in Addis Ababa are in danger of collapse.

Chinese Vice-Premier Li Keqiang has re-assured that his country is committed to properly resolve the South China Sea issue with Vietnam.