Putin welcomes BRICS leaders amid standoff with WestRussian President Vladimir Putin welcomed the leaders of emerging powers for a summit Moscow hopes will show it not isolated despite the standoff with the West over Ukraine.
09 July 2015
Putin hosts BRICS summit amid standoff with WestRussian President Vladimir Putin is to meet world leaders including China's Xi Jingping and India's Narendra Modi ahead of the start of a summit of the BRICS emerging economies.
G7 summit opens with tough line on UkraineThe leaders of Germany and the United States hammered home a tough line on Russia as they kicked off a G7 summit dominated by crises in Ukraine and Greece.
08 June 2015
Japan PM first to arrive at G7 summitJapanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe touched down at Munich airport, the first world leader to arrive for the G7 summit in southern Germany.
x-Soviet Georgia urges EU progress, despite Russian pressureGeorgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili has warned European Union leaders against letting Russian aggression in Ukraine undermine the bloc's project of building closer links with ex-Soviet nations.
20 May 2015
ASEAN warns sea reclamation 'may undermine peace'Reclamation work in the disputed South China Sea, where China has constructed an airstrip and other structures on coral reefs, threaten to "undermine peace, security and stability" in the region.
27 April 2015
Ukraine to push for peacekeepers, funds at EU summitUkraine will press European leaders for peacekeepers to patrol its war-torn east and will angle for more international financial support at two days of high-level talks starting.