Diplomats from Pakistan, Afghanistan, the United States, and China held talks in Islamabad to try to draw up a plan for peace talks between in Afghanistan's government and the Taliban.

• Date: 11.01.2016  |  Published on EGF: 11.01.2016  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.rferl.org

The United States called on China on Thursday to end "business as usual" with its ally North Korea after Pyongyang defied world powers by announcing it had tested a hydrogen bomb.

• Date: 07.01.2016  |  Published on EGF: 07.01.2016  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Vietnam formally accused China of violating its sovereignty and a recent confidence-building pact on Saturday by landing a plane on an airstrip Beijing has built in a contested part of the South China Sea.

• Date: 02.01.2016  |  Published on EGF: 02.01.2016  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com

Iranian nuclear officials say Tehran will export most of its enriched uranium stockpile to Russia in the coming days as it implements a nuclear deal to secure relief from international sanctions.

• Date: 20.12.2015  |  Published on EGF: 20.12.2015  |  Energy  |  from http://www.rferl.org

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA.N) has agreed to buy Hong Kong's flagship English-language newspaper, the South China Morning Post (SCMP), in the most politically sensitive acquisition by the e-commerce giant to date.

• Date: 11.12.2015  |  Published on EGF: 11.12.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.rferl.org/

Oil-producing countries looked unlikely to reach a deal to lift languishing prices at a meeting on Friday after Iran, Iraq and Russia swiftly rejected a surprise proposal that appeared to have been floated by Saudi Arabia.

• Date: 03.12.2015  |  Published on EGF: 03.12.2015  |  Energy  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Britain joined U.S.-led air strikes against Islamic State in Syria on Thursday, but Vladimir Putin issued bitter new denunciations of Turkey for shooting down a Russian plane, demonstrating the limits to international solidarity.

• Date: 03.12.2015  |  Published on EGF: 03.12.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

The United States has added four individuals and six entities to sanctions list for supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, including a Russian bank and a former official.

• Date: 25.11.2015  |  Published on EGF: 25.11.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.rferl.org/