Russia interprets the latest round of United Nations sanctions against Iran as prohibiting all exports of major weapons systems to that country, President Dmitri A. Medvedev announced Wednesday, ending some Russian equivocation on whether an advanced air defense system would fall under the ban.

• September 23, 2010

Turkish Energy and Natural Resources Minister Taner Yıldız said Wednesday that talks with South Korea regarding the construction of a nuclear power plant, which is planned to be built in Turkey’s northern province of Sinop, are ongoing with only a few remaining issues under deliberation.

• September 23, 2010

President Barack Obama is scheduled to meet Friday with Kyrgyz leader Rosa Otunbayeva amid U.S. expectations that her country can become the first parliamentary democracy in Central Asia. Assistant Secretary of State Robert Blake outlined U.S. policy in the region at a briefing in New York.

• September 23, 2010

Turkmenistan will push forward the creation of a new UN body to monitore energy supplies, the country's president, Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, said during a meeting of the UN General Assembly in New York.

• September 21, 2010

A spokesman says Defense Secretary Robert Gates shares Israel's concerns that Russia plans to sell Syria anti-ship cruise missiles.

• September 21, 2010

Israel criticized Russia on Monday for planning to sell anti-ship cruise missiles to Syria, saying the advanced weapons could be transferred to Hezbollah guerrillas in neighboring Lebanon.

• September 21, 2010

China's main nuclear power company announced that it is in talks to build a one-gigawatt nuclear power plant in Pakistan, even as the two countries face U.S. and Indian concerns over their cooperation to build other plants in Pakistan.

• September 21, 2010

China is expected to develop its coal conversion industry into the world's largest by 2020, as the world's largest coal producer and consumer is seeking clean uses of its huge coal resources, industry insiders forecast.

• September 19, 2010