Turkish activists have held a mass protest in Istanbul, hours after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan rallied his own supporters in a seaside resort.

• June 24, 2013

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff has called an emergency cabinet meeting to discuss the country's most widespread unrest in two decades.

• June 21, 2013

The European Union sought on Friday to forge rules to force losses on large savers when banks fail, a divisive reform that will shape how the euro zone deals with its sickly lenders.

• June 21, 2013

US President Barack Obama has called for greater efforts to be made to reduce US and Russian nuclear arsenals.

• June 20, 2013

Afghan officials have said the removal of the flag and nameplate from the Taliban's Qatar office is not enough.

• June 20, 2013

North Korea has expressed willingness to restart long-stalled nuclear talks with international partners, China's foreign ministry has said.

• June 20, 2013

Police raided addresses across Turkey on Tuesday and detained dozens of people after nearly three weeks of anti-government protests, local media reported.

• June 18, 2013

A senior North Korean official who has been the country's negotiator at denuclearization talks will visit Beijing this week, China said on Monday, although analysts were skeptical Pyongyang was about to make concessions on its nuclear program.

• June 17, 2013