Clarity is needed in all Iranian nuclear program issues, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday.

• September 1, 2010

Clarity is needed in all Iranian nuclear program issues, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday.

• August 31, 2010

Kyrgyzstan launched a $200m hydroelectric power station yesterday, its first since the collapse of the Soviet Union, in a move likely to intensify competition for Central Asia’s scarce water resources.

• August 31, 2010

Armenian leaders are ecstatic that Russia is getting involved in the construction of a new nuclear power plant at Metsamor. Environmentalists and technical experts are far less enthused, saying that a new Metsamor unit poses considerable risks.

• August 31, 2010

India's parliament approved a final, critical piece of a long-delayed landmark civil nuclear agreement Monday, a pact regarded as a cornerstone of a Bush-era effort to transform the relationship between the United States and the world's largest democracy.

• August 31, 2010

With the help of Russian experts, fuel loading into Iran's first nuclear power plant, which started on Aug. 21, is set to finish in a week, after which the Bushehr nuclear power plant will become operational.

• August 31, 2010

When Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada was in Delhi a few days back for the fourth round of strategic dialogue between Japan and India, he made it clear that negotiations on a civilian nuclear cooperation pact are going to be rather difficult.

• August 30, 2010

Israeli and Palestinian leaders were looking forward to direct talks this week in Washington with both hope and apprehension. The two sides have agreed to hold direct peace talks beginning Thursday, the first such talks since 2008.

• August 30, 2010