The US secretary of state visits South Korea as the North cuts ties after being blamed for sinking a warship.

• May 26, 2010

India's state-run airline Air India cancels 76 flights on the second day of strike action by its employees.

• May 26, 2010

Georgia's main airline has resumed commercial flights to Russia for the first time since a war between the two countries nearly two years ago.

• May 26, 2010

The World Bank said on Tuesday it had approved $1 billion in budget support for Kazakhstan to help the government implement its economic program.

• May 26, 2010

The Baltic States comprises of the three states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania which lie in north-central Europe, on the eastern edge of the Baltic Sea. These countries gained their independence from the former U.S.S.R. in 1991.

• May 26, 2010

China and the United States agreed to work together in order to ensure energy security and stabilise the international energy market.

• May 26, 2010

Energy and security: Russia’s new obsession with the wider Black Sea region Revived by the economic recovery it has witnessed in recent years, and not necessarily weakened by the global financial crisis, Russia is demonstrating itself to be an increasingly assertive (political and economic) force in the wider-Black and Caspian Seas (BCS) basin. Exerting influence in the BCS region is a crucial element in the Russian geopolitical strategy, given the region’s importance both as an energy producer as well as its vitality as a primary corridor for the transit of oil and gas to international markets.

• May 26, 2010

Russia wants Poland to participate in the construction of the Baltic nuclear power station in the Kaliningrad Oblast corridor.

• May 25, 2010