Moldova’s Foreign Minister Iurie Leanca has been named the country’s new caretaker prime minister by President Nicolae Timofti. The President signed an appointment decree on April 23.

Director of Serbia’s Government Office for Kosovo, Aleksandar Vulin, announced publicly his dissatisfaction with the agreement between the Serbian and Kosovar authorities on normalisation of the relations and announced he had handed in his resignation.

United States President Barack Obama met with Qatari emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani at the White House Tuesday amid a flurry of meetings with regional leaders on Syria’s increasingly bloody stalemate.