The EU's top diplomat has unveiled a plan to help war-torn Syria seal a peaceful end to fighting, improve stability and rebuild once a real political transition is happening

Cyprus' president says fellow European Union member states have rejected Turkey's demand for its citizens to freely relocate and transfer money, services and goods under any deal reunifying the ethnically divided island

Sinn Fein, the Irish nationalist party, has fallen just short of becoming the largest party in elections for the Northern Ireland Assembly

Diplomats say EU foreign ministers are to discuss whether to hold high-level talks with Israel amid concern over its settlement policy and commitment to a two-state solution

Northern Ireland's voters are deciding who should lead them in an election overshadowed by acrimony between the dominant Irish Catholic and British Protestant parties

Cyprus' president says he hopes real progress in talks aimed at reunifying the ethnically divided island could happen after the Turkey's April 16 referendum on expanding presidential powers

Latvia's main airport denies having demanded an Arab diplomat to remove her hijab headscarf during a security check after a local newspaper reported her country had handed in a note to the Latvian Foreign Ministry over an unacceptable treatment

The United Nations says dates for new meetings to get Cyprus reunification talks back on track will be announced in "due course."