The Gillard government has conspicuously softened Australia's tone towards China's military expansion in an apparent bid to consolidate relations with a key trading partner and emerging superpower.

• May 3, 2013

The U.S. Trade Representative's office criticized China on Wednesday for failing to stop the growing theft of American trade secrets that are the lifeblood of U.S. economic might, in the latest sign of Washington's frustration with the problem.

• May 2, 2013

Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili says resolving his country’s conflicts with Russia is his “big dream.” But it’s a dream that has him locked in a war of words with President Mikheil Saakashvili and his allies.

• May 2, 2013

World War II lingers for Russia and Japan. Nearly 68 years after the fighting ended, the two Asian powers have yet to sign a peace treaty.

• May 2, 2013

At the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 29 April, representatives from the Lithuanian and Ukrainian Foreign Ministries discussed important issues of bilateral cooperation and Ukraine’s integration into the European Union, reported BC press service of Lithuanian MFA.

• April 30, 2013

Armenian delegation came up with two offers regarding the report on Turkey at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) session, head of the RA delegation to PACE said.

• April 30, 2013

NATO member Turkey signed up on Friday to became a "dialogue partner" of a security bloc dominated by China and Russia, and declared that its destiny is in Asia.

• April 29, 2013

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe have agreed to increase efforts to resolve a territorial dispute over North Pacific islands that has prevented the two countries from signing a treaty formally ending World War ll.

• April 29, 2013