1.   The recovery is not proving easy, and people thinking of traveling to the region need to anticipate the circumstances they will face.

2.   U.S. Energy Secretary Federico Pena said the countries in the region need to cooperate more fully to meet their common energy needs, especially as demand jumps.

3.   Powell said leaders in the region need to encourage peace during the election.

4.   Appearing on CNN, Netanyahu said Israel and Turkey as well as other countries in the region need to cooperate against common threat of Islamic fundamentalism.

5.   Appearing on CNN, Netanyahu said Israel and Turkey as well as other countries in the region need to cooperate against the common threat of Islamic fundamentalism.

6.   Countries in the Asia-Pacific region need to start planning how to better integrate growing elderly populations into their societies, delegates to a regional conference have said.

7.   If another two or three countries in the region need to be bailed out, the IMF would probably not come in.

8.   It is already clear that the Baltic region needs urgently needs to develop asylum procedures and ways to accommodate asylum seekers, Redmond said.