Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan led a large rally Monday demanding the return of several islands held by Russia since the end of World War II and calling the recent visit there by Russia's president an outrage.

• Date: 07.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 07.02.2011  |  External Relations  |  from washingtonpost.com

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yousus Raza Gilani’s government recently managed to maintain a majority after hectic backroom bargaining with its coalition partners.

• Date: 07.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 07.02.2011  |  Markets  |  from gorkhapatra.org.np

A square, an angry crowd, banners, the bitter smell of burning, the grinding noise of manoeuvring tanks, blood: this time it's Cairo, but for the last three decades we have seen similar images from a range of autocracies under threat, from the Shah's Tehran, Deng Xiaoping's Beijing and Ceausescu's Bucharest to the uprisings of the last couple of years in Iran, Tunisia, and now Egypt.

• Date: 07.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 07.02.2011  |  Energy  |  from dailyreckoning.com.au

A square, an angry crowd, banners, the bitter smell of burning, the grinding noise of manoeuvring tanks, blood: this time it's Cairo, but for the last three decades we have seen similar images from a range of autocracies under threat, from the Shah's Tehran, Deng Xiaoping's Beijing and Ceausescu's Bucharest to the uprisings of the last couple of years in Iran, Tunisia, and now Egypt.

• Date: 07.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 07.02.2011  |  External Relations  |  from telegraph.co.uk

A delegation from Turkmenistan’s state-owned gas company will be coming here on Monday for bilateral discussions on the gas sales purchase agreement (GSPA) for the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (Tapi) pipeline.

• Date: 05.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 05.02.2011  |  Energy  |  from business-standard.com

The Russian foreign ministry said in a statement that North Korea's reported enrichment capacities would violate existing Security Council resolutions and require further international inquiry.

• Date: 05.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 05.02.2011  |  External Relations  |  from Yahoo! news

In late 2011 - early 2012, the Czech 'Energy' engineering and construction company will begin construction of new power plant and coal mines in Tkibuli (Georgia).

• Date: 05.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 05.02.2011  |  Energy  |  from trend.az

Turkey and Kyrgyzstan would establish a high-level council to develop bilateral relations, Kyrgyzstan Prime Minister Almazbek Atambayev said

• Date: 04.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 04.02.2011  |  External Relations  |  from People's Daily