Holland’s Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans affirmed here Thursday that Europeans were keen on the future of Egypt, stressing that his current visit to the country was to support the EU efforts to help create dialogue among Egyptian political factions.

Georgia marked today the fifth anniversary of the 2008 war with Russia over Georgia’s separatist territory of South Ossetia, with both sides still blaming each other for the costly conflict.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday, “A mentality in Syria which has stepped on the holiness of Ramadan has massacred individuals fasting.” Referring to Syria, Erdogan said at a meeting