Optimism and progress are words seldom associated with diplomatic encounters involving Iran.

• April 1, 2013

Russia said on Friday that heightened military activity near North Korea was slipping into a "vicious cycle" that could get out of control, implicitly criticizing U.S. bomber flights that followed threats from Pyongyang.

• March 29, 2013

The Iranian Embassy in Baku says Tehran has nothing to do with a new radio station broadcasting in the Talysh language from Azerbaijan's breakaway territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.

• March 29, 2013

The US has flown two B-2 stealth bombers over South Korea as part of an ongoing military exercise.

• March 28, 2013

Leaders from the BRICS group of emerging economies have made little progress on establishing a new development bank to counterbalance Western-dominated institutions such as the World Bank.

• March 28, 2013

Russia's gas giant Gazprom expects to reach an agreement on the price of gas to be supplied to China via the eastern route in June, and sign a deal by the end of this year, Gazprom chairman Viktor Zubkov said in the full version of a TV interview with Rossiya 24 broadcast on Wednesday.

• March 28, 2013

ISSUE # 10
03/25/2013
On 21 March 2013, the head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine, Jan Tombinski, said that the signing of the association agreement between Ukraine and the EU would largely depend on the conclusions to be made by European Parliament ex-President Pat Cox and Polish ex-President Aleksander Kwasniewski upon completion of their mission. READ MORE

• March 28, 2013

Today in Astana, Kazakhstan's Defence Minister Adilbek Dzhaksybekov met with the Special Representative of the Secretary General of the NATO for the Caucasus and Central Asia James Appathurai and a new NATO officer on interaction with Central Asia Alexander Vinnikov, the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Kazakhstan informed Trend.

• March 27, 2013