With India and Israel being at an advanced stage of finalising a free trade agreement, the bilateral trade is likely to touch $15 billion from around $5 billion now, said Mr Alon Ushpiz, Ambassador of Israel to India.

• December 6, 2011

Press service of the Defense Ministry told APA that the solemn greeting ceremony of Abiyev was held in Kazakhstan’s Defense Ministry, the anthems of both countries were sounded.

• December 5, 2011

The Australian Uranium Association (AUA) has welcomed the Australian Labor Party’s decision to change its national policy platform to allow for uranium sales to India.

• December 5, 2011

Russia on Thursday urged North Korea to halt its uranium enrichment programme after the Stalinist state reported rapid progress on what some experts believe is a second way of making nuclear weapons.

• December 1, 2011

Kazakh Defense Minister Adilbek Dzhaksybekov and U.S. Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Asian and Pacific Security Affairs discussed future cooperation on Wednesday, Kazakh Defense Minister reported.

• November 30, 2011

Britain began pulling its diplomats out of Iran on Wednesday, a day after protesters stormed and ransacked its embassy and residential compound in the capital Tehran.

• November 30, 2011

Russia has activated a radar warning system against incoming missiles in its exclave of Kaliningrad on the borders of the European Union, in response to Western plans to deploy a missile-defense shield in Europe.

• November 29, 2011

A senior U.S. official has dismissed Iran's threats against NATO missile defense installations in Turkey ahead of a visit by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden to the key U.S. ally and linchpin of NATO's southern flank.

• November 29, 2011