Iraq has scrapped an arms deal worth 4.2 billion dollars with Russia a month after it was struck, an Iraqi lawmaker said in remarks published on Saturday, dpa reported.

• November 10, 2012

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan hosted another, the third round of the Uzbek-Malaysian ministerial political consultations, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan said.

• November 10, 2012

Iran and Vietnam are keen to enhance the level of bilateral cooperation in different spheres, Press TV reported with the reference to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

• November 10, 2012

Armenian Energy Minister Armen Movsisian has said that Iran plays a key role in meeting energy needs of his country, IRNA reported.

• November 9, 2012

The Belarusian government is interested in supplying oil from Kazakhstan for its processing at Belarusian refineries, Novosti-Kazakhstan news agency quoted Deputy Prime Minister Mikhail Rusi as saying at a session of the Kazakh-Belarusian intergovernmental commission on trade and economic cooperation in Astana on Thursday.

• November 9, 2012

China's economy strode further along the road of recovery from its slowest growth in three years, data for October showed on Friday, as infrastructure investment accelerated and output from the country's factories ran at its fastest in five months.

• November 9, 2012

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has announced that Russia is to lend Vietnam some $10 billion to build that country's first nuclear power plant.

• November 8, 2012

The Pentagon is working to encircle Eurasia and to surround the Eurasian Triple Entente composed of China, Russia, and Iran.

• November 8, 2012