Adding a new dimension to their strategic ties, India and the UK today decided to start negotiations on a civil nuclear pact to facilitate entry of British companies into emerging atomic power sector here.

• February 19, 2013

Russia will continue its active role in the political and diplomatic settlement of conflicts in the CIS area.

• February 19, 2013

International observers say Armenia's presidential vote was an improvement on recent elections but was not genuinely competitive.

• February 19, 2013

India wants a share in gas fields in Turkmenistan from where the proposed $9-billion transnational gas pipeline will cross terrorist-infested regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan to deliver gas across the Punjab border.

• February 18, 2013

Armenians have been casting their ballots in the country's latest presidential election.

• February 18, 2013

Kim Kwang-jin says that when he worked for North Korea's state insurance company in Singapore in 2003, he stuffed $20 million into two suitcases one day and sent it to Pyongyang as a special gift for then leader Kim Jong-il.

• February 18, 2013

Ukraine has reached a tentative agreement with Turkmenistan to resume imports of natural gas from the Central Asian country.

• February 16, 2013

Iran does not want nuclear weapons but if it did, no world power could prevent it from obtaining one, local media quoted the country's Supreme Leader as saying on Saturday, Feb 16.

• February 16, 2013