Downplaying recent adverse remarks by Japanese officials about civil nuclear cooperation with India, India Friday said it would shortly hold another round of negotiations with Japan here and underlined that it was hopeful of 'a win-win' atomic accord soon.

• August 20, 2010

Pakistan should engage in a 'detailed dialogue' with Iran on nuclear power and not only the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline to counter its 'arch-enemy' India, an editorial in a Pakistani newspaper said Friday.

• August 20, 2010

Turkey's president met with the leader of a Kyrgyz political party in Istanbul on Wednesday, Anadolu Agency reported.

• August 19, 2010

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday that the Bushehr nuclear power plant construction in Iran promotes the non-proliferation regime.

• August 19, 2010

Twenty years after the last Russian soldier walked out of Afghanistan, Moscow is gingerly pushing its way back into the country with business deals and diplomacy, and promises of closer ties to come.

• August 19, 2010

It is August 2010, the month when the last United States combat troops are scheduled to leave Iraq. It is therefore time to take stock of the situation in Iraq, which has changed places with Afghanistan as the forgotten war.

• August 18, 2010

Baku, Fineko/abc.az. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) begins Associated Petroleum Gas (A) Flaring Study for Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan. Expression of interest to carrying out of this study is received in the EBRD office in London till September 18.

• August 18, 2010

The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan has announced its new leader, just one day after confirming the death of Tahir Yuldashev, the al Qaeda-linked terror group's co-founder and longtime emir.

• August 18, 2010