The United States plans to store heavy military equipment in the Baltics and Eastern European nations to reassure allies made uneasy by Russian intervention in Ukraine, and to deter further aggression, a senior US official said on June 13.

Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton promised on June 13 to fight for a fairer society for ordinary Americans, staking out a place on the left to cut off any budding challenge for the Democratic nomination.

The Obama administration is expected to announce an agreement with Cuba in early July to reopen embassies and restore diplomatic relations severed more than five decades ago, US sources familiar with the matter said on June 12.

(VOV) - The P5+1 group is exerting every effort to reach a final deal on Iran’s nuclear program before the deadline of June 30. However, this deadline is likely to be missed as involved parties want to reach a deal that benefit them most.

The United States is considering building more US military bases in Iraq to drive back Islamic State militants in a move that may require a further increase in American forces, the top US general said on June 11.

The European Parliament Delegation for Relations with the Countries of Southeast Asia and the ASEAN held a talk in Strasbourg, France on June 10 with ASEAN ambassadors and chiefs of diplomatic missions to discuss EU-ASEAN relations as well as regional and international issues of mutual concern. 

US Defense Secretary Ash Carter met a top Chinese general on June 11 and repeated a US call for a halt to land reclamation in the East Sea while stressing that the Pentagon remained committed to expanding military contacts with China.

Differences between the United States and China over the East Sea and cyber security should not be addressed by "microphone diplomacy" but in "a proper way" to allow for a successful US visit by President Xi Jinping this year, a senior Chinese diplomat said on June 10.

A stern Pope Francis urged Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 10 to make a "sincere and great effort" to achieve peace in Ukraine.

President Barack Obama on June 10 ordered the deployment of 450 more US troops to Iraq's Sunni heartland to advise and assist fragile Iraqi forces being built up to try to retake territory lost to Islamic State.