The UN High-level Meeting on Ending AIDS held in New York last week discussed important measures to wipe out the epidemic throughout the world.

Europeans view the militant group Islamic State as the biggest threat facing their countries, ahead of climate change, economic instability and refugees, a survey by the Pew Research Center showed on June 13.

US authorities said on June 13 they had found no direct links between Islamic State militants and the gunman who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, describing him as a homegrown extremist who was inspired by radical Islamist groups.

Iraq said on June 13 it had made arrests as it investigates allegations that Shi'ite militiamen helping the army retake Falluja had executed dozens of Sunni Muslim men fleeing the city held by Islamic State.

A breakthrough has been achieved in revising the framework for political dialogue between Myanmar’s government and armed forces, official media reported on June 13. 

A suicide bomber killed three people at a field hospital for forces fighting Islamic State in their Libyan coastal stronghold of Sirte on June 12, a security source said, and medical staff appealed for help in treating the wounded.

A bomb exploded outside the headquarters of Lebanese Blom Bank in central Beirut on June 12, causing damage but no fatalities, the interior minister said.

Italy's coastguard said on June 12 a total of 1,230 migrants had been picked up in nine rescue operations in the waters between Sicily and North Africa, with one dead body being recovered.

A man armed with an assault rifle killed 50 people during a gay pride celebration at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, early on June 12 in the deadliest mass shooting in US history, a rampage President Barack Obama denounced as an act of terror and hate.

Italy's coast guard said on Saturday it had picked up at sea 1,348 migrants in 11 rescue operations between Sicily and North Africa, bringing the total number of people saved over the past three days to more than 3,000.