Top UN nuclear official said a conference on nuclear safety this week "achieved its main goal," paving the way "for an enhanced post-Fukushima global nuclear safety framework."

Haiti has seen an increase in cholera cases since May, due to a lack of access to clean water and sanitation, the beginning of the rainy season and flooding, the Geneva-based World Health Organization (WHO) said on June 24.

Asian nations moved to release emergency oil stockpiles on June 24 as part of a rare global coordinated action by consumer countries to prevent high energy prices from stunting a stuttering economic recovery.

Chinese premier Wen Jiabao has said that China can control inflation and maintain its robust growth.

The UN Security Council will take up a draft resolution that would establish an interim peacekeeping force for the disputed border region of Abyei, US Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, said on June 23.

European Union leaders have reaffirmed their commitment to help Greece out of its current debt woes and maintain EU financial stability.

The US has expressed concern over reports that Syria is moving troops near the border with Turkey, and warned of a possible escalation of conflict.  

Three bombs exploded near a busy street market and a religious site in a mainly Shi'ite area of southwestern Baghdad on June 23, killing at least 23 people and wounding scores of others, security sources said.

A split has opened within the NATO-led air campaign against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, with France and Britain rejecting an Italian call for a halt to military action to allow aid access.

President Barack Obama has ordered all 33,000 US surge troops home from Afghanistan by next summer and declared the beginning of the end of the war, vowing to turn to nation building at home.