Iran has played down a United Nations report that said Iranian nuclear scientists had enriched uranium to a higher-than-expected level, state media reported on Saturday.

• May 26, 2012

Azerbaijani company is interested in the development of Kyrgyz oil and nonferrous metal fields, 24.kg reported.

• May 25, 2012

Iran and world powers will meet in Moscow next month for more talks to try solve a longstanding dispute about Iran's nuclear energy programme, Catherine Ashton, the European Union foreign-policy chief, has said.

• May 25, 2012

Kazakh Ambassador Galymzhan Koishybayev met with Lithuanian MPs - representatives of "Kazakhstan's Friendship Group" in Seimas, the Kazakh MFA's press service said.

• May 25, 2012

China’s Commerce Ministry issued a ruling Thursday that U.S. government support for six renewable energy projects violated free-trade rules, the latest volley in a widening conflict over clean power.

• May 24, 2012

Kyrgyzstan will help the U.S. with cargo transportation for the antiterrorist coalition forces in Afghanistan after the closure of the Bishkek airport air base, President Almazbek Atambaev said in an interview with Radio Azattig on Thursday.

• May 24, 2012

Kyrgyzstan will help the U.S. with cargo transportation for the antiterrorist coalition forces in Afghanistan after the closure of the Bishkek airport air base, President Almazbek Atambaev said in an interview with Radio Azattig on Thursday.

• May 24, 2012

The deal means construction can start on one of the longest and most ambitious pipelines ever planned, stretching more than 1,000 miles from Turkmenistan in former Soviet Central Asia across Afghanistan to Pakistan and India.

• May 24, 2012