An urgent call to launch negotiations on an arms trade treaty has been made as over 2,000 people die every day from armed violence. Oxfam and a coalition of NGOs have said today the death toll has reached 2.1 million in the "three years of talks about talks" which are "going at a snail’s pace". [...]

North Korean may resume six-party international talks on its nuclear weapons programme, state media has reported. Talks will first be held with the US, reports say, after the state abandoned talks in April saying it would "never again take part in such talks". However, a visit to Pyongyang by Wen Jiabao, the Chinese prime minister, [...]

A suicide bomber has attacked the UN World Food Programme (WFP) offices in Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital, killing at least three people. Reports from the city say two of the dead are local women and the third is an Iraqi man. The blast came just a day after the new leader of the Pakistani Taliban promised [...]