U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke opens a 10-day trip to China and Indonesia on Saturday to promote the sale of clean energy technologies.

• May 13, 2010

India has conveyed to Tehran that it had a major role in stabilizing the situation in Afghanistan and that India would cherish its support in handling the developing situation in that country.

• May 13, 2010

Noting that Sino-Indian border disputes still existed, defence minister A K Antony said the two governments had evolved mechanisms to talk about these disputes.

• May 12, 2010

External Affairs Minister S. M. Krishna on Tuesday described Kazakhstan as India's most important partner in Central Asia with whom it maintains strategic relations.

• May 12, 2010

The game’s initial phase ran fr om 1807, when Napoleon proposed to Tsar Alexander to invade British India, until 1907, when tsarist Russia and imperial Britain sat down and — like civilized Europeans — divided spheres of interest, some of which ran right through countries like Iran.

• May 12, 2010

Russia, which is helping Iran build nuclear plants, now wants to add Syria to its list of investments in atomic energy while the US enlists support for the idea of making Middle East free of nuclear weapons.

• May 12, 2010

External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna will undertake a three-day visit to the Central Asian Republic of Kazakstan from May 11 to May 13, during which there will be a review of bilateral ties between the two countries, and an assessment of ways to take sectoral cooperation forward.

• May 11, 2010

Syria and Qatar back Turkish efforts for a diplomatic solution to the row over Iran's nuclear program, Turkey's foreign minister said after leaders of the three countries met, a report said.

• May 11, 2010