Japan's new Prime Minister Naoto Kan is due to name his cabinet and be formally sworn in by Emperor Akihito.

• Date: 08.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 08.06.2010  |  Markets  |  from bbc.co.uk

Iran hopes to finalise a deal this week for a much-delayed pipeline to export natural gas to Pakistan by 2015, an energy official said on Sunday.

• Date: 07.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 07.06.2010  |  Energy  |  from expressbuzz.com

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates arrived here today to express U.S. gratitude to this former Soviet republic on the western shore of the Caspian Sea for its contributions to the coalition’s efforts in Afghanistan.

• Date: 07.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 07.06.2010  |  External Relations  |  from globalsecurity.org

Israel has begun expelling the latest group of activists detained for trying to break the Gaza blockade. Meanwhile, Israel's ambassador to the US has rejected a probe into an earlier deadly raid on a Gaza aid flotilla.

• Date: 07.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 07.06.2010  |  Security  |  from Deutsche Welle

kraine’s new president is not a Russian stooge. But his country is in deep economic trouble

• Date: 07.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 07.06.2010  |  Markets  |  from economist.com

When Vladimir Putin traveled to Guatemala three years ago to personally promote Russia's bid for the 2014 Winter Olympics, he pledged the Games in Sochi would be "safe, enjoyable, and memorable."

• Date: 07.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 07.06.2010  |  External Relations  |  from Radio Free Europe

Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia began two days of talks Friday outside Berlin, with Russia asking Germany, and German companies, to help with modernization.

• Date: 07.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 07.06.2010  |  External Relations  |  from nytimes.com

To increase the ease of business in the Baltic Sea region and the three Baltic states, the bottlenecks in transport and energy need to be solved, European Commission President José Manuel Barroso said on Wednesday morning.

• Date: 03.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 03.06.2010  |  Energy  |  from balticreports.com