The United States urged the Vatican on Wednesday to criticize Russia's involvement in the Ukraine conflict more forcefully, hours before Pope Francis was due to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin.

• June 10, 2015

The annual report of the U.N. nuclear watchdog has been approved by its board of governors despite Russia's protests against it listing a nuclear site near Crimea's Sevastopol as being in Ukraine, according to a document seen by Reuters.

• June 9, 2015

U.S. stocks rose slightly on Tuesday, bouncing back partially from the previous day's decline as higher oil prices helped energy shares, but the dollar slipped on global economic concerns.

• June 9, 2015

Rebel fighters captured a major base from the Syrian army in the south of the country on Tuesday, rebels and a monitoring group said, a setback for President Bashar al-Assad reflecting the mounting pressure on him after recent losses elsewhere.

• June 9, 2015

Western nations and Russia traded accusations at the United Nations on Friday over the recent upsurge in violence in eastern Ukraine, while a senior member of an international monitoring team blamed both sides in the conflict for breaking a ceasefire.

• June 6, 2015

Close to one in two Greeks is in favor of the government reaching a deal with the country's lenders, and three out of four want to stay in the euro zone, an opinion poll showed on Friday.

• June 6, 2015

Taiwan's coast guard on Saturday commissioned its biggest ships for duty in the form of two 3,000-ton patrol vessels, as the island boosts defenses amid concerns about China's growing footprint in the disputed South China Sea.

• June 6, 2015

A bigger-than-expected slide in China's imports in May strengthened expectations more policy stimulus may be needed to avert a sharp slowdown in the world's second-largest economy.

• June 6, 2015