Britain has voted to leave the European Union, forcing the resignation of Prime Minister David Cameron and dealing the biggest blow to the European project of greater unity since World War Two.

Morocco said on June 23 that it had dismantled a suspected militant cell inspired by the radical group Islamic State and that it had arrested 10 men who were planning attacks in the North African kingdom.

Early results from Britain's bitterly contested referendum showed a lead on June 24 for supporters of leaving the European Union, contradicting opinion polls and prompting wild swings in the value of the pound.

Colombia's government and leftist FARC rebels signed a historic ceasefire deal on June 23 that brought them tantalizingly close to ending the longest running conflict in the Americas.

The United Nations Security Council on June 23 condemned DPRK's most recent ballistic missile launches as a grave violation of an international ban and called on the 193 UN member states to enforce toughened sanctions on the Asian state.

The United States warned China on June 22 against taking "additional provocative actions" following an impending international court ruling on the East Sea that is expected to largely reject Beijing's broad territorial claims.

Group of Seven finance leaders will issue a statement stressing their readiness to take all necessary steps to calm markets if Britain votes to exit the European Union, government officials with direct knowledge of the preparations said on June 23.

Britons will decide the future of their country and Europe on June 23 in a vote on European Union membership after a bitter campaign that appeared to divide the nation down the middle.

The European Union's Brussels envoys agreed on June 21 to extend until the end of January the energy, financial and defense sanctions on Russia over the conflict in Ukraine, but formal approval is still pending, diplomatic sources said.

Taliban fighters in the southern Afghan province of Helmand stopped vehicles and detained at least 25 people, officials said on June 21, as the insurgents continued a series of abductions on Afghanistan's highways over the past few weeks.