Former Kyrgyz Prime Minister Feliks Kulov, whose party finished third in this month's parliamentary elections, says the country is not yet ready to make the transition to a parliamentary republic, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports.

• October 28, 2010

Parliaments of Belarus and Tajikistan intend to sign an agreement on cooperation

• October 28, 2010

The United States has welcomed as a "positive" step India's signing of an international convention governing liability in case of nuclear accidents.

• October 28, 2010

One year after the establishment of Europe's first 'macro-region', which brings together 10 countries nested around the Baltic Sea, a number of positive results can already be seen, according to Johannes Hahn, the European commissioner in charge of regional policy.

• October 28, 2010

The leaders of Japan and Vietnam are expected to hodl talks on a nuclear energy pact and the joint development of rare earth minerals when they meet in Hanoi this weekend

• October 27, 2010

The start of the weeks-long process brings the controversial Bushehr plant another step closer to operation. Iran says the facility will generate 1,000 megawatts of electricity, but Western nations fear it is to be used to produce atomic weapons.

• October 27, 2010

The start of the weeks-long process brings the controversial Bushehr plant another step closer to operation. Iran says the facility will generate 1,000 megawatts of electricity, but Western nations fear it is to be used to produce atomic weapons.

• October 27, 2010

Kyrgyz law enforcement agencies will not allow the destabilization of the domestic situation, Keneshbek Dushebayev, head of the Kyrgyz Security Service said.

• October 27, 2010