Tajik Finance Minister Safarali Nadzhmiddinov and Azerbaijani Ambassador to Dushanbe Abbasali Hasanov discussed the development of bilateral cooperation, Avasta.tj reports.

• June 21, 2012

The Arab League demanded on Thursday that Russia stop supplying arms to Syria, as a regime onslaught of Homs and its surrounds appeared to stall a Red Cross bid to rescue trapped civilians.

• June 21, 2012

Iran has commonly been labeled as a rogue state by Western powers with the country’s pursuit of nuclear power being deemed a threat to global society, and something that must be addressed immediately. While Tehran insists that the development of its nuclear capacity is only for peaceful purposes, the U.S. and its allies fear that Iran is developing nuclear weaponry.

• June 21, 2012

The UN Conference on Sustainable Development began in Rio de Janeiro today, Avesta.Tj reports. For many heads of state and government, this forum will be a platform for various initiatives.

• June 20, 2012

Cyprus will ask Russia for a loan of between €3 billion and €5 billion before the weekend and then request aid from its euro zone partners for its ailing banks, an EU diplomat said.

• June 20, 2012

A Russian court on Wednesday convicted two professors of a St.Petersburg university of handing over missile secrets to China, the latest in a string of espionage cases that reflected underlying tensions between Moscow and Beijing despite declarations of cooperation and friendship.

• June 20, 2012

Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan have traded accusations over a contested patch of oil field in the Caspian Sea.

• June 19, 2012

Talks over Iran’s nuclear energy ambitions have resumed between Iran and the Group 5 +1, in Moscow, according to a source, after earlier reports suggested that they had ended, RIA Novosti reported.

• June 19, 2012