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

Russia, a veto-wielding member of the U.N. Security Council, will not permit no-fly zones to be imposed over Syria, Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said on Monday.

• June 17, 2013

For the first time in the Turkmenistan's history, there will be a lawmaker in parliament who is not a member of the ruling party.

• June 15, 2013

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has called on the Greek government to reopen public broadcaster ERT, after it was shut down suddenly on Tuesday.

• June 14, 2013

Information that the United States has given Russia about suspected use of chemical weapons by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces "does not look convincing", President Vladimir Putin's senior foreign policy adviser said on Friday.

• June 14, 2013

The European Union lodged a complaint at the World Trade Organization on Thursday against China's imposition of anti-dumping duties on imports of stainless steel tubes, six months after Japan filed a similar case, the WTO said.

• June 13, 2013

South Korea voiced disappointment with Pyongyang after high-level bilateral talks were placed on hold and phone calls to a hotline went unanswered.

• June 12, 2013

China's unregulated shadow banking sector poses an increasing risk to the country's financial stability that could spread to other countries, credit rating agency Fitch said on Monday.

• June 11, 2013