From Washington this ends the OAS. Egypt swears in a new government. I, joblessness, a head for Europe. I'm Ray Kugel reporting from Washington. Members of Egypt's new military-backed government or sworn-in Tuesday. Edward Jureini reports from our Middle East bureau in Cairo. The new Egyptian interim cabinet was sworn in before interim president Adley Munsoor in a ceremony at the presidential palace. The new ministers vowed to defend Egypt's constitution. It's republican form of government and its borders. Veteran economist, Hazel Bablawi, who heads the new cabinet was the first to be sworn in. Defense minister, Abdel Fatal, CC, the military leader who was key and the outsting president, Muhammad Morsi, continues in his post and becomes first deputy prime minister. The 35 member cabinet includes three women, several Christians and several figures who are Islamists. Edward Jureini in for VOA news, Cairo. Muslim brotherhood in his cellophane new party refused to participate. U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, began a new round of talks in Jordan Tuesday in his quest to revive Israeli Palestinian peace negotiations. Secretary Kerry met in a man with Jordanian foreign minister Nasir Juda ahead of a meeting later with Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas. He made groups and United Nations officials are pleading with the Syrian government and armed opposition groups to allow access to unarmed civilians, saying crimes against humanity are the rule as fighting rages on in the Syrian civil war. Meanwhile, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonu Guterres is warning the fighting in Syria endangers the entire Middle East. He spoke to the UN Security Council from his office in Geneva. The danger that the Syrian conflict could ignite the whole region is not an empty warning. Measures must be taken now to mitigate the enormous risks of spillover and to support the stability of serious neighbors, so as to keep the situation from escalating into a political security and humanitarian crisis that will move far beyond the international capacity to respond. Mr. Guterres urged Syria's neighboring countries to keep their borders open for refugees. The United States says it stands ready to go up ready with Panama, should the Central American nation request assistance, regarding a North Korean flag ship it stopped while attempting to pass through the Panama Canal with suspected missile parts. Panama's president Ricardo Martindell says authority stopped the ship on suspicion it was carrying drugs, when instead found what is believed to be sophisticated missile equipment. President Martindell says the ship was coming from Cuba. The Paris-based organization for economic cooperation and development says joblessness will remain high in European and other developed nations, stowing economic recovery and job prospects, especially among the youth. Lisa Bryant has details. Given the seer's spate of grim economic news, the latest jobs report by the organization for economic cooperation and development may not come as a big surprise. Overall, it predicts unemployment will fall only slightly in 2014 among the OECD's 34 members, leaving about 48 million people out of work. At a call in press conference from Paris, OECD Secretary General Anne Guterres described the jobless situation as a crisis, particularly for young people in countries like Italy, Spain and Greece, where half or more are out of work. Lisa Bryant for VOI News, Paris. The Mexican government says the head of the country's notorious Zeta's drug trafficking cartel was captured. Miguel Ángel Trevino, known by a SNCC-C-40, was caught by Mexican Marines Monday while riding in a pickup truck near the border city of Nuevo Laredo. The government spokesman says they also seized about $2 million in cash and several guns. A coalition of US political advocacy and religious groups filed suit contesting the legality of the government's surveillance of Americans' telephone records. It claims a spine by the country's clandestine national security agency is an illegal and unconstitutional program of dragnet electronic surveillance. The lawsuit is a six-filed against the government, seeking to end its vast collection of phone and internet records, then the aftermath, the former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden's leaking details of two secret NSA surveillance programs last month. Snowden remains encamped for a fourth week at a transit zone of a Moscow airport. I'm Ray Cuguel, VOE News. These are other stories on our website at VOENews.com.