The Syria peace talks in Geneva have opened with bitter accusations from each side over the ongoing conflict which has cost more than 100,000 lives.
A week that started with a march toward war, that melted in the heat of U.S. politics, that morphed into high-level diplomacy, ended with a U.S.-Russian deal to destroy Syria’s chemical weapons.
Russia has urged the Syrian regime to give up their stockpiles of chemical weapons to “international control” in an attempt to avoid US military action.
Foreign Secretary William Hague has said that the UK and US remained “closely aligned” on Syria after discussions with US Secretary of State John Kerry at a joint press conference in London.
The US and China have declared that they will work together to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear programme and to dampen the tension on the Korean peninsular through dialogue.