Catherine Ashont, the British EU trade commissioner, has been appointed foreign policy chief of the European Council.
Al Jazeera’s Hamish Macdonald spoke to her on the sidelines of a meeting of the leaders of the 27-member European Union, where Herman Van Rompuy, Belgium’s prime minister, was appointed the first president of the European Council.
Abdullah Abdullah, Hamid Karzai’s main challenger, has called for a run-off in Afghanistan’s presidential election.
Abdullah insists the poll held two months earlier, in which he came a distant second according to unofficial reuslts, was massively rigged in favour of Karzai.
Amid the controversy, Afghanistan is yet to elect a new president and there is still no clear indication about whether there will be a run-off.
Al Jazeera’s Jonah Hull reports from Kabul.
The Iranina foreign minister talks to Al Jazeera’s Mike Hanna.
Baghdad amd the Kurds clash about who controls the country’s oil resources.
We talk to Cyprus’s foreign minister on why Cyprus remains divided.