Ethiopia's government on Thursday assumed custody of a priceless 18th-century crown that a former refugee had kept hidden in his apartment in the Netherlands for two decades.

More than 200 sea migrants have arrived on Italian shores over the weekend, while another 71 were intercepted and returned to Libya by the Libyan coastguard.

The unstable conditions in the Middle East require serious work to rectify the situation, eliminate the causes of tension and imbalance in the implementation of international commitments..