This saturday, for the first time since tensions in Kashmir broke out in July, Jammu and Kashmir State Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti met the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. During the meeting teh Chief Minister presented her “three-pronged action plan” to settle the conflict in Kashmir. In her speech following the meeting Mufti supported PM Modi. She said that: ‘The Prime Minister is very concerned about the situation in Jammu and Kashmir like we all are. (...) The Prime Minister wants this bloodshed to end so that the State comes out of the present turmoil’. Mufti also directly targeted Pakistan for its role in the conflict, blaming the state for instigating civilians to carry out attacks.

On 27 August 1991, the Great National Assembly of the Republic of Moldova adopted the Declaration of Independence enshrining the end of Soviet Union control over the country. This year, the Independence Day is celebrated with a picturesque military parade in Piața Marii Adunări Naționale (Great National Assembly Square) involving the National Army troops and vehicles as well as divisions of the Ukrainian, Romanian, Polish and British armies.

Negotiators seeking to end the five-decades-old bloody insurgency in Colombia said Wednesday they had reached a final peace deal in one of the world's longest-running conflicts. The announcement was broadcast live on Wednesday from Havana, Cuba, where peace talks have been held for almost four years. The conflict has killed an estimated 260,000 people and displaced millions. Representatives from the Colombian government and the FARC rebel group for last four years have struggled to reach a deal that would not only end the fighting but also address issues of land reform, curtailment of the drug trade, repatriation of victims' families and trials for those suspected of human rights abuses.

In accordance with a deal struck on Thursday, about 700 rebel fighters and 4,00 civilians began to leave Daraya. The town, located in Damascus suburbs, has been under siege for the last 4 years. The deal will allow the rebels to reach Idlib province which is not controlled by the government, provided they leave all heavy weapons. Civilians, on the other hand, will be relocated to temporary accommodations in Sahnaya near Damascus. Daraya was one of the first places that rose in arms against Bashar al-Asad’s regime and the negotiated surrender is both a symbolic and military victory for the government.

Economist Intelligence Unit is a think-tank in London, which annually create rankings of the best cities in the world. They consider the following factors: the quality of health care (20%), the conditions of education (10%), the infrastructure of the city (20%), culture (25%) and care of the environment (25%). Each city can take max. 100 points. This year Melbourne won 97.5, which gave the city the first place in the ranking. The 2. place took the European representative - Vienna (97.4), and third place was Canadian Vancouver (97.3). It is said that the biggest influence comes from frequent terrorist attacks, which for example. Sydney dropped out of the first ten places.

The Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orbán has spoken on the state radio announcing Hungary should place another “more massive” razor wire fence on its southern borders in case of migrants’ inflows will increase further in next months. This is just the last of a series of decisions the right-wing populist leader and the government have made after the European migrant crisis has deteriorated dramatically in 2015 and thousands of refugees left the Middle-East region to reach the EU coasts and borders.