The vessels reportedly left the southern Iranian port of Bandar Abbas for international waters in September.

Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said that the country has no immediate need to ask for outside aid to help deal with its debts.

About 37,400 military personnel from Japan will join some 10,000 U.S. troops in the November 5-16 drill.

Staff at Radio Popular said four masked men broke into the studio, poured petrol over presenter Fernando Vidal and set him alight.

Angela Merkel will receive the leaders amid worries that Europe's three-year-old debt crisis is weighing down global growth.

At least 53 international troops have been killed in attacks by Afghan soldiers or police this year, and other assaults are still under investigation.

"Terrorists assassinated General Abdullah Mahmoud Al-Khalidi in Rukn al-Din," state TV said in a news flash without giving details.

Henri Reynaud: only Armenia and Azerbaijan can find a solution to Nagorno Karabakh conflict and establish peace in the region.

RZA is expected to kick off filming next year in China, the same country where he shot "The Man with the Iron Fists."

Henri Reynaud says President François Hollande will fulfill the pledge to adopt a bill criminalizing Armenian Genocide denial.