The Iraqi political grouping of Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr holds its own a referendum on who should be the country's prime minister.

• April 2, 2010

Aviation could prove a fresh field for diplomatic conflict between Georgia and Russia after an announcement by the de facto government of breakaway Abkhazia that it plans to reopen an Abkhaz airport with Moscow’s assistance. Georgian officials tell EurasiaNet.org that they expect the European Union to help Tbilisi block such assistance -- an expectation that the EU has not confirmed.

• April 2, 2010

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen is expected to visit Baku, the Romanian ambassador to Azerbaijan told journalists Thursday.

• April 2, 2010

After Russia's second series of suicide bombings this week, President Medvedev paid a visit to Dagestan, where new reports link bombings there to those in Moscow.

• April 2, 2010

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• April 2, 2010

Kyiv is ready to discuss cooperation with Moscow in upgrading Ukraine's gas transportation system, nuclear industry, aerospace industry and aircraft engineering, according to Prime Minister Mykola Azarov.

• April 2, 2010

BEIJING - China's president will attend a nuclear security summit in Washington this month, signalling a fresh start between the superpowers amid a chill in relations over Beijing's unhappiness with U.S. arms sales to Taiwan and a

• April 2, 2010

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin pledged Tuesday to drag "from the bottom of the sewers" those behind the deadly attack on the Moscow subway system, but some Russians began to challenge his government for failing to prevent the suicide bombings despite signs that Islamist rebels had been preparing to strike.

• April 1, 2010