President Barack Obama said on November 18 that he saw "flickers of progress" in Myanmar and dispatched Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to visit the isolated country next month to explore new ties.

Leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on November 17 inked the Bali Declaration on the ASEAN Community in a Global Community of Nations, or Bali Concord III, within the framework of the 19th ASEAN Summit in Bali, Indonesia.

The six international mediators on the Iran nuclear issue have agreed on a new resolution on Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) may adopt it on November 18, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

New Italian PM Mario Monti's government of technocrats has passed its first test, winning a vote of confidence in the senate.

Occupy Wall Street activists took their protest against social inequality and corporate greed to New York’s Financial District on November 17, as police kept demonstrators from Wall Street itself. 

Afghan President Hamid Karzai sought to set limits on what American and NATO troops could - and could not - do in his country on November 17 in a lengthy speech to tribal elders.  

Leaders of the 10 members of the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) attended the opening ceremony of their 19th summit in Bali, Indonesia, on November 17.

The Arab League has given Syria three days to "stop the bloody repression" of protesters and allow in teams of observers.  

  Dozens of Kuwaiti protesters stormed parliament late on November 16, as hundreds more demonstrated outside.  

Prime Minister designate Mario Monti has unveiled a new, technocratic cabinet meant to steer Italy through its debt crisis after the fall of Silvio Berlusconi's government.