The Kyrgyz Central Election Commission (CEC) would announce the official results of the parliamentary election only after it finished a ballot recount but there would be no new elections, authorities said Wednesday.

• October 21, 2010

Pushing for the maximum during US President Barack Obama’s visit next month, India is looking to corner a firm commitment from the US to help facilitate India’s entry into the elite Nuclear Suppliers’ Group (NSG).

• October 20, 2010

China and Russia enjoy a strong partnership that precludes any need or desire for competition, a senior Moscow official said at the conclusion of a state visit in Beijing on Tuesday.

• October 20, 2010

The global financial crisis is having a devastating impact on families in emerging Europe and Central Asia, with the risk of the region giving back a fifth of the poverty reduction gains of the past decade, according to a new World Bank report.

• October 20, 2010

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's deputy Monday said that Iran would be willing to address the dispute over its nuclear programme in forthcoming talks, even though the Iranian leader has so far declined to discuss it with world powers.

• October 19, 2010

Iran and Armenia plan to start building two major hydro-electric stations on their border early next year, the energy ministers of the two countries said in Yerevan.

• October 18, 2010

RIA Novosti citing Mr Vagit Alekperov CEO of OAO Lukoil as saying that the company may sell 10 billion cubic meters of natural gas produced in Uzbekistan to China.

• October 18, 2010

Armenia’s nuclear power plant in Metsamor will be brought to a halt October 16 for a partial refuelling and regular repairs, its executive director Gagik Markosian told

• October 16, 2010