Ursula von der Leyen's European Commission should beef up its geopolitical engagement by merging foreign and defense policies, the new EU commissioner in charge of economy said in Rome on Saturday

Mohamed Taher Syala, the top diplomat in the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA), told Sputnik on Saturday he agreed with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that both sides to the Libya conflict should be present at the planned Berlin conference

External interference in the Libya war is growing with new kinds of weapons arriving to the country, UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the Support Mission in Libya Ghassan Salame said on Saturday

At least four people were dead and 29 injured after a six-story residential building collapsed in the Kenyan capital after weeks of heavy rains, a government official said

The quadrilateral meeting on Syria in Istanbul in February, proposed by the Turkish president, will try to bring together the members of the Small Group and Astana guarantors, Dima Moussa, vice-president of the opposition Syrian National Coalition (SNC) and a Syrian constitutional committee member, told Sputnik

UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen said on Friday that UN efforts at settling the Syrian conflict will likely prove futile unless the international community throws its weight behind the process