China is on the prowl again in Africa and this time Ethiopia and its new government appear to be winning over investors from the East Asian country. The Chinese, present during the funeral of late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi in August have made a number of moves in the country’s energy and agriculture markets that have analysts believing Beijing has discovered their future East African mate.

• October 3, 2012

Delegation from Iran led by country's Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi arrived in Iraq today, ISNA reported.

• October 3, 2012

Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf on Monday said Pakistan attaches great importance to its relations with Russian Federation and is keen to intensify economic ties between the two countries.

• October 2, 2012

Azerbaijan`s President Ilham Aliyev has today received former President of Kyrgyzstan Roza Otunbayeva.

• October 2, 2012

A North Korean minister lashed out at the United States on Monday, warning that its “hostile” policy has left the Korean peninsula a spark away from a nuclear war.

• October 2, 2012

ISSUE #37
09/24/2012
Selective application of justice has become an obstacle to Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's visits to the EU, Swedish Foreign Minister Karl Bildt said in an interview with the Kommersant Ukraina business daily on 19 September 2012. READ MORE

• October 1, 2012

ISSUE #36
09/17/2012
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kostyantyn Hryshchenko has said he is certain that the Ukraine-EU summit would take place before the end of 2012. Hryshchenko made a statement to this effect on 14 September 2012, the Lb.ua news and analysis website has reported. READ MORE

• October 1, 2012

The inability of nuclear weapons to guarantee a country’s security or independence was highlighted in the speech of Kazakhstan’s Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kairat Umarov, to the United Nations General Assembly today.

• September 29, 2012