Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama resigns amid pressure from his party to step down ahead of elections due in July.

• June 2, 2010

A traditional Caspian Oil and Gas international exhibition opens here on Tuesday. It is held here for a17th time and will run until June 4, an official at the exhibition organizing committee announced.

• June 2, 2010

European Union President Herman Van Rompuy said at a summit with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev today that the bloc is seriously concerned about the situation in Russia for human rights activists and journalists.

• June 2, 2010

Vilnius is hosting the Baltic Development Forum and the Baltic Sea States Summit. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso is expected to meet on Wednesday with regional representatives, including the prime ministers of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland and Norway.

• June 2, 2010

Russia needs to modernize its economy and shun protectionism to gain access to Western investment, the European Union said Tuesday

• June 2, 2010

Afghan security forces patrol ahead of Wednesday's start of a three-day peace conference in Kabul. KABUL—The Afghan government kicks off a national assembly in Kabul Wednesday, the first in a string of events that officials hope will chart a path to reconciliation with insurgents, seize the political initiative from the Taliban and lay the groundwork for...

• June 2, 2010

President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso has said that the issue of financial instruments to the construction of the Visaginas nuclear power plant will be considered as soon as the construction project is presented.

• June 2, 2010

Russia and the Ukraine got an agreement on nuclear fuel supply for the local atomic plants this year.

• June 2, 2010