Canada says it will freeze all trade with Iran over Tehran's nuclear program and human rights record.

• May 30, 2013

Officials at a meeting of the governing board of a Russian-led Eurasian customs union say Kyrgyzstan will join the grouping and Ukraine will be granted observer status.

• May 29, 2013

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang criticized the European Union over its plans to investigate alleged anti-competitive behavior by Chinese mobile telecom equipment makers and to impose punitive import duties on solar panels from China, state media reported.

• May 25, 2013

Saddled with Middle East problems ranging from Iran to Syria and beyond, President Barack Obama now faces one that is both old and new: Iraq.

• May 25, 2013

Since the 1990s, China's top leaders serve a maximum of two five-year terms. With the last batch of leaders having reached the end of their second term last year, there has been a transition to the 'fifth generation' of leaders since the Chinese Communist Party came to power in Peoples Republic of China in 1949.

• May 23, 2013

IAEA can continue supervision of Iran's nuclear activities without any obstacles, Iran's ambassador to IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh said, Mehr news agency reported.

• May 23, 2013

India has slashed Iranian oil imports by almost a fifth since December, the sharpest cut among Asian buyers, in a move that should increase its chances of winning a new US waiver next month on sanctions targeting oil trade with Iran.

• May 22, 2013

Increasingly tough financial sanctions, an arms embargo and other international restrictions on trade with North Korea have significantly delayed expansion of Pyongyang's illicit nuclear arms program, according to a confidential report by a U.N. panel of experts seen by Reuters on Tuesday.

• May 17, 2013