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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) speaks to the press in Beijing, China.

Soldiers from the 1157th Engineer Firefighter Company, Colorado National Guard, smother hot spots around residential areas in Colorado Springs, Colo., June 14, 2013.

Anti-government protests continue in Turkey, but the methods have changed. The two weeks of clashes in which four people died and about 5,000 were injured drew increasing numbers of supporters.

Top U.S. diplomats scrambled to salvage plans for preliminary peace talks with the Taliban, after Afghan President Hamid Karzai refused to participate in the U.S.-led talks in Qatar.

UNICEF condemns in the strongest terms the attack which has reportedly left at least nine pupils dead in Maiduguri, north east Nigeria.

Border police trainees from Afghanistan. Assisting Afghanistan is one of the key themes of the 2013 OSCE Annual Security Review Conference.

Syrian refugees in Kurdistan's Domiz camp.

The Taliban has claimed responsibility for an attack that killed four U.S. troops in Afghanistan, hours after the U.S. announced it was opening formal talks with the insurgent group.

High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay.

U.S. President Barack Obama is set to lay out his vision for advancing toward a world free of nuclear weapons during a speech at the historic Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.