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

Lithuanian and Latvian cooperation initiatives are often shadowed by larger-scale regional projects, therefore both countries will seek for greater integration and closer relations, said Lithuanian and Latvian prime ministers during their meeting today.

• December 3, 2011

A federal trade panel voted Friday to investigate whether Chinese companies are harming the U.S. solar panel industry by dumping low-price products on global markets.

• December 3, 2011

The trade turnover between Azerbaijan and Belarus will reach $1 billion next year, Belarus’ Ambassador to Azerbaijan Nikolay Patskevich said. He said  positive dynamics has been recently observed in the economic, commercial relations between the two countries.

• December 3, 2011

China is challenging Russia as Turkmenistan’s main buyer of natural gas. Ashgabat’s shift could put the Kremlin in a precarious position.

• December 2, 2011

Russians vote Sunday for a new parliament that critics call the "Approval Ministry" for rubber-stamping bills advocated by the Kremlin. Voting will take place among growing discontent with Russia’s strongman of the last decade, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

• December 2, 2011