Boeing Machinists
Machinists who work for Boeing were about to strike but decided not to after agreeing that a mediation could be successful.
Boeing workers in St. Louis put off signing a letter of intent to strike in 7 days after both sided agreed to meet with a mediator on Friday. http://www.kmov.com/news/local/Boeing-union-says-it-could-strike-on-Monday-96481474.html
African Nations
The African Union Tuesday supported a mediation agreement between Eritrea and Djibouti, whose border standoff could destabilize the Horn of Africa region.
Djibouti’s government said that further to the deal, Eritrea had withdrawn its troops from two areas they had occupied.
The Red Sea nations, who share a coastline on a crucial shipping lane linking Asia to Europe, clashed over their border several times in 2008 and routinely exchange accusations. http://www.globenews24.com/EN/news,african-union-welcomes-eritrea-djibouti-mediation-deal-reuters
European Union may not be a good mediator for the Situation
The European Union has little chances of success as a diplomatic mediator between Iran and the West in the Iranian nuclear program, experts say.
“The EU now is seen to be very much in line with the US which means it can not really mediate, because it is part of the game. And that was what Iran was in this sense signaling when it turned to Brazil and Turkey instead,” European expert on Iranian policy Rouzbeh Parsi wrote in an e-mail to Trend. http://www.turkishweekly.net/news/103214/experts-eu-mediation-efforts-in-iranian-nuclear-issue-not-to-give-results.html