The upcoming construction of a second nuclear power plant in Armenia increases the risk for the region, the director of the center for geo-environmental monitoring of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan, Ali Aliyev, told Trend News on April 5

• Date: 06.04.2010  |  Published on EGF: 06.04.2010  |  Energy  |  from trend.az

The Iraqi political grouping of Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr holds its own a referendum on who should be the country's prime minister.

• Date: 02.04.2010  |  Published on EGF: 02.04.2010  |  Markets  |  from bbc.co.uk

• Date: 01.04.2010  |  Published on EGF: 01.04.2010  |  External Relations  |  from thepost.com.pk

On the anniversary of the uprising that toppled Kyrgyzstan’s’s hardline leader, the same revolutionaries who came to power promising a new era of freedom announced they have given up on Western-style democracy.

• Date: 30.03.2010  |  Published on EGF: 30.03.2010  |  Markets  |  from times.spb.ru

China's Zhejiang Heely Holding Group has reached an agreement with Ford Motors to take over Ford's Volvo Unit. The deal to buy the struggling Swedish company has been two years in the making.

• Date: 29.03.2010  |  Published on EGF: 29.03.2010  |  Markets  |  from Deutsche Welle

Tajikistan's prime minister has described as an "excuse" Uzbekistan's claims that technical problems are blocking freight trains bound for his country.

• Date: 26.03.2010  |  Published on EGF: 26.03.2010  |  External Relations  |  from Radio Free Europe

Afghan President Hamid Karzai begins a visit to China, with trade and investment high on the agenda.

• Date: 24.03.2010  |  Published on EGF: 24.03.2010  |  External Relations  |  from bbc.co.uk

The man widely seen as China's next leader told Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Tuesday the world's two most powerful emerging market economies should help each other increase their weight in global affairs.

• Date: 24.03.2010  |  Published on EGF: 24.03.2010  |  External Relations  |  from thestar.com.my