Council on Foreign Relations in New York

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has urged American investors to take advantage of Greece's improved investment climate and positive economic sentiment.

So far this year more than 170 bodies have washed up on the shores of the Mediterranean while the Libyan Coast Guard has also rescued thousands more.

IOM has helped repatriate 1,500 people back to West Africa so far this year where it is trying to inform people not to risk the journey to Libya where they face exploitation.

The U.S. economy could suffer, with inflation remaining too low, if recent volatility in financial markets persists and signals a slowdown in the global economy, the Federal Reserve's second-in-command said on Feb. 1.

Greece?s creditors appeared to harden their stance against Athens on Wednesday amid signs of virtually no progress in negotiations on reforms amid a growing sense that they have tired of their Greek interlocutors and are preparing for the worst despite their stated hopes of an eventual breakthrough.