The base price for Russian natural gas is still disadvantageous for Ukraine despite a new deal reached last April and the Kiev government will press Moscow to bring it down, Ukraine's prime minister said on Wednesday.

• August 25, 2010

China is Kyrgyzstan's important strategic partner on the international arena, Kyrgyz Foreign Minister Ruslan Kazakbayev said in an interview with Xinhua ahead of his visit to China starting on Wednesday.

• August 25, 2010

Denying claims that the ruling government bargained with a terrorist group to boost support for the upcoming referendum, PM Erdoğan has said any negotiations would go through the state.

• August 25, 2010

Nabucco Gas Pipeline International GmbH plans to supply the natural-gas transmission route to Europe with links to Turkey’s borders with Georgia and Iraq and has decided against a link to the country’s border with Iran.

• August 24, 2010

Afghanistan is land locked country since 1893, when under duress was forced to give away a part of its territory to British India. Division was primarily to act as buffer zone between Russian and British interest in the region.

• August 24, 2010

Japan's foreign minister warned India on Saturday against conducting any new nuclear tests, saying such a move would force a halt to any civilian nuclear cooperation between the two countries.

• August 24, 2010

As Iran began fuelling its first nuclear power plant in the southern city of Bushehr, remarks by the Russian state nuclear energy company Rosatom's chief Sergei Kiriyenko that it was a "big international project" continued to puzzle political observers.

• August 24, 2010

A new election law that protects the ruling elite is undemocratic and raises fresh doubts about Ukraine's suitability to join the EU

• August 23, 2010