Parliament of Kyrgyzstan adopted new customs duties on a number of basic commodity items, as decided at parliamentary session

• Date: 22.04.2011  |  Published on EGF: 22.04.2011  |  External Relations  |  from trend.az

The Japanese government has announced a 4 trillion yen ($48.9bn; £29.6bn) emergency budget for disaster relief, after March's earthquake and tsunami.

• Date: 22.04.2011  |  Published on EGF: 22.04.2011  |  Markets  |  from bbc.co.uk

Armed US Predator drones are to carry out missions over Libya, Defence Secretary Robert Gates has said.

• Date: 22.04.2011  |  Published on EGF: 22.04.2011  |  External Relations  |  from bbc.co.uk

Japan has made it illegal to enter a 20km (12-mile) evacuation zone around the stricken Fukushima nuclear reactor.

• Date: 21.04.2011  |  Published on EGF: 21.04.2011  |  External Relations  |  from bbc.co.uk

Georgia's parliament has annulled an agreement with Russia allowing Moscow to use its territory as a transit nation for a Russian military base in Armenia

• Date: 21.04.2011  |  Published on EGF: 21.04.2011  |  External Relations  |  from hurriyetdailynews.com

The Azerbaijani government has quietly stopped the operations of two international nongovernmental organizations in what some local observers claim is a further attempt to clamp down on the country’s relatively weak civil society.

• Date: 21.04.2011  |  Published on EGF: 21.04.2011  |  Security  |  from hurriyetdailynews.com

Japanese exports fell more than expected in March, as damage from last month's earthquake and tsunami affected shipments.

• Date: 20.04.2011  |  Published on EGF: 20.04.2011  |  Markets  |  from bbc.co.uk

Libya's foreign minister says a British plan to send a military team to advise rebels fighting Col Gaddafi would harm chances of peace in the country.

• Date: 20.04.2011  |  Published on EGF: 20.04.2011  |  External Relations  |  from bbc.co.uk