The general board chairman of the Revolutionary Worker Unions Confederation, or DISK, Süleyman Çelebi, has accused the ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, of being afraid of rights and freedoms.

• August 7, 2010

Afghanistan and expansion of Iran’s Chabahar port dominated discussions between visiting Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Mohd Ali Fathollahi and the Indian leaders on Friday.

• August 7, 2010

Russia agreed on Friday to supply more low-enriched uranium to South Africa's only nuclear power station, a contract that will give Russia's uranium trader nearly half of Africa's biggest market for enrichment services.

• August 6, 2010

The Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India natural gas pipeline, first proposed in 1995, is back on the drawing boards.

• August 6, 2010

Russian authorities and firefighters are continuing their fierce battle against rampant wildfires that have shrouded Moscow in choking smog and thrown nuclear facilities into danger.

• August 6, 2010

How green is our economy? While there is no precise answer to this question, our economy is neither green nor grey, but remains black.

• August 6, 2010

Nothing projects U.S. global air and sea power more vividly than supercarriers. Bristling with fighter jets that can reach deep into even landlocked trouble zones, America's virtually invincible carrier fleet has long enforced its dominance of the high seas.

• August 6, 2010

Two recent developments in East Asia ― one in Northeast Asia and the other in Southeast Asia ― have brought to the fore some of the latent tensions in the region.

• August 5, 2010