Belarus on Tuesday sought to identify the perpetrators behind the bombing on the Minsk metro that killed 12 and wounded 150, the first major apparent act of terror in its post-Soviet history.

• April 12, 2011

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) should combine their "huge potential" to continue enhancing their coordination on major issues of common concern.

• April 12, 2011

Japanese authorities have raised the severity rating of their nuclear crisis to the highest level, seven.

• April 12, 2011

It is never boring at the World Russian Forum (WRF), a two-day conference of politicians, business people, and scholars from Russia and the U.S. who have been meeting annually since 1981 with the intent of improving U.S.-Russia relations.

• April 11, 2011

The Kyrgyz government on Monday approved a plan to join a post-Soviet customs union and common economic space.

• April 11, 2011

External power has been restored at all sites affected by the 7th April earthquake. The 3 litres of water that were spilled at Onagawa NPP have been cleaned up.

• April 11, 2011

South African President Jacob Zuma says the Libyan government has accepted an African Union peace proposal to end the eight-week-old conflict.

• April 11, 2011

The International Monetary Fund, or IMF, has proposed a plan to allow the multilateral lender to directly tap financial markets to be able to help member nations in crisis, according to a document published Thursday.

• April 9, 2011