Downing Street warned Russia on Monday not to block efforts at the United Nations to bring a peaceful resolution to unrest in Syria.

• January 30, 2012

ust in case you recently emerged from a number of years hibernating in a cave, let’s give a surface scratching summation of the views of each side in this situation concerning the Iranian Nuclear Development Program. Iran insists that their nuclear program is strictly limited to medical research and isotope production and energy production. They profess absolute separation between the Iranian Revolutionary Guards ballistic missile program and their nuclear program. At the same time reports have claimed that some of the nuclear sites are located in close proximity to Revolutionary Guards instillations and under their direction.

• January 28, 2012

Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba said Saturday that a heated, decades-long territorial dispute with Russia was far from solved even as they agreed to boost security and economic cooperation.

• January 28, 2012

Expressing concern over the proposed restrictions on export of certain grades of coal by the Indonesian government, India Saturday said it would try to find a solution through bilateral talks.

• January 28, 2012

The governments of Tajikistan and Germany signed agreements on technical and financial cooperation on Friday, Asia-Plus reported.
The document was signed by Tajik Foreign Minister Khamrokhon Zarifi and German ambassador in Dushanbe Doris Hertrampf.

• January 27, 2012

Ukraine exported just over 2 million metric tons of grain in December, of which about 1.6 million metric tons (63 million bushels) was corn, according to U.S. Grains Council sources. The leading corn importers were Egypt, 252,000 tons; Spain, 350,000 tons; and Iran, 160,000 tons. Egypt, Tunisia and Spain took most of Ukraine's wheat shipments.

• January 27, 2012

There are just two countries in the world which are both Asian and European at the same time.It is not just the geography of the two countries that make them simultaneously Asian and European but also their cultures, their politics, their histories and their economies. Russia and Turkey’s unique positions, not shared by any other countries, give them a different perspective on the world.

• January 27, 2012

Pakistan and India said to have on Wednesday they were now closer to an agreement on pipeline to import gas from Turkmenistan, warming of economic ties between two countries.

• January 26, 2012