The world's best-known institute for handling bad bugs — Atlanta-based Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) — will help India strengthen its laboratory and manpower capacity to better detect pathogens like NDM-1 and virus outbreaks.

• April 9, 2011

A high-proifile mission from the IMF has praised Latvia's return to growth and said they are happy with this year's budget.

• April 9, 2011

President of Hungary Pal Schmitt offered Kyrgyz counterpart Roza Otunbayeva to pay official visit to Hungary, as reported press-service of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic.

• April 8, 2011

An Iranian lawmaker said Wednesday Iran's Majlis (Parliament) will set up a committee to investigate the delay in the launch of the country's first nuclear power plant, Mehr news agency reported.

• April 7, 2011

Turkey's chief European Union negotiator has urged French lawmakers to take action to ward off discussion of a so-called 'Armenian genocide' bill over the events of 1915 on the French Senate floor

• April 7, 2011

A representative delegation headed by Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar will visit Turkmenistan in the coming days, Deputy Iranian Interior Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Mehdi Muhammadifar said, as reported by the Iranian news agency İRNA.

• April 7, 2011

Bulgaria and Russia have signed a memorandum to stop construction of the Belene nuclear power plant for three months, Bulgaria's National Electric Company (NEK) said

• April 6, 2011

President Dalia Grybauskaitė had a meeting with Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg. Discussion in the meeting focused on Lithuanian-Norwegian bilateral relations, cooperation in the field of foreign policy and security as well as economy and energy, and elimination of Baltic energy isolation.

• April 6, 2011