The foreign ministers of Poland and Sweden accused Ukraine on Wednesday of dragging its heels on urgently needed reforms.

• November 18, 2010

Russia is ready for more cooperation with Armenia, including economic aid, Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said here on Wednesday during his meeting with visiting Armenian President Serge Sargisyan.

• November 18, 2010

India's central bank governor has warned that the country needs a "quantum step" in investment to achieve the ambitious double-digit economic growth rate forecast by Manmohan Singh, the Indian prime minister.

• November 18, 2010

The large fountain statue of 10 horses rises in the Turkmenistan’s capital Ashgabad yesterday. The Central Asian nation, which sits atop the world’s fourth-biggest natural gas reserves, is looking to diversify energy supplies and is pushing to revive plans to build a pipeline to deliver gas from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan to Pakistan and India.

• November 18, 2010

Britain's HSBC bank was chosen Tuesday to advise Bulgaria on restructuring and financing its Belene nuclear power plant project in the north of the country, Economy and Energy Minister Traicho Traikov said.

• November 17, 2010

As India prepares to host Russian President Dmitry Medvedev next month, the two countries will hold their 16th meeting of joint economic commission on Thursday with an aim to finalise agreements.

• November 17, 2010

South Korea's state energy firm said Wednesday it was seeking to build a nuclear reactor in Lithuania, in the country's latest move to export its atomic expertise.

• November 17, 2010

The World Bank Board of Directors today approved a US$78 million loan for the Kazakhstan Alma Electricity Transmission Project to the Republic of Kazakhstan to improve the reliability and quality of electricity supply to consumers in the Almaty region

• November 17, 2010