Uganda is looking to the East for sustained economic growth and will set up a model of its own development from an underdeveloped country to a developing one, said Uganda's Vice President Prof. Gilbert Bukenya.

The retired king of Cambodia Norodom Sihanouk, who turned 84 on Tuesday, appeared to be in good health, according to the latest medical results posted on his personal website on his birthday, local media said on Thursday.

The Greek Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that Greece had not been invited to take part in a meeting currently being set up by the Finnish EU presidency, in order to discuss a regulation for direct trade between the EU and the Turkish-Cypriot community.

U.S. Democratic Senator John Kerry apologized on Wednesday for his remarks about Iraq one day earlier that drew sharp attacks from Republicans, days away from the midterm congressional elections.

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has ordered the detention of six Cambodians after charging them on Tuesday with conspiring to commit acts of terrorism during this weekend's Water Festival, local media reported on Thursday.

Guatemala and Venezuela agreed to support Panama as a consensus candidate for a non-permanent seat of the UN Security Council, Ecuador's UN Ambassador Diego Cordovez announced Wednesday evening.

Greece's National Strategic Reference Framework seeks to achieve a balanced development of the country with 82 percent of a Fourth Community Support Framework program focusing on regional projects, Economy and Finance Minister George Alogoskoufis said on Wednesday.

The Romanian government criticized on Wednesday reports of the British daily, The Sun, on the rising number of crimes involving Romanians in Britain, saying the situation was "exaggerated."

Brazilian Minister of Defense Waldir Pires on Wednesday called for retired air traffic operators to join the team at the Air Traffic Control Center (Cindacta 1) in the country's capital city of Brasilia to attenuate the effects of the slowdown operation initiated on Friday Oct. 27.

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs David Welch is traveling in the Middle East on the peace mission, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Wednesday.