Secretive North Korea boasted advances in its nuclear program on Tuesday, making sure it held the world’s attention, saying it had thousands of working centrifuges, as pressure built on China to rein in its ally.

• December 1, 2010

In Kyrgyzstan, the leaders of the Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan (SDPK) and Respublica gave to Omurbek Tekebaev signing the project of coalitional agreement.

• November 30, 2010

Nuclear-armed North Korea boasted today it has "many thousands of centrifuges'' running at a new uranium enrichment plant, which has raised fears the regime wants to make more fuel for atom bombs.

• November 30, 2010

China has made global headlines in recent months for overtaking the US as the largest emitter of carbon dioxide, while state media ran almost daily stories of chemical water pollution and contaminated food, writes the Mail and Guardian.

• November 30, 2010

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Turkmen counterpart Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov inaugurated on Sunday the last section of a pipeline to export Turkmen gas to northeast Iran, media reported.

• November 29, 2010

In late May 2009, Israel’s defense minister, Ehud Barak, used a visit from a Congressional delegation to send a pointed message to the new American president.

• November 29, 2010

An exact date has been set for a long-planned official visit to Turkey by Tajikistan’s President Emomali Rahmon, and the two-day visit will take place in mid-December in reciprocation of Turkish President Abdullah Gul’s visit to Dushanbe in May 2009.

• November 27, 2010

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has urged China to make clear to North Korea that its recent actions are unacceptable.

• November 27, 2010