China's "growing military muscle" has "raised the urgency for the US and Japan to resolve its standoff over where to station US troops in Japan," Japan's foreign minister said in The Wall Street Journal on May 14.

• Date: 14.05.2010  |  Published on EGF: 15.05.2010  |  External Relations  |  from chinadaily.com.cn

How will India measure, report and verify its climate change actions when it is not yet sure of what actions it needs to take or the economic consequences of such moves to reduce greenhouse gas emissions?

• Date: 14.05.2010  |  Published on EGF: 14.05.2010  |  Security  |  from IndiaTimes

India has conveyed to Tehran that it had a major role in stabilizing the situation in Afghanistan and that India would cherish its support in handling the developing situation in that country.

• Date: 13.05.2010  |  Published on EGF: 13.05.2010  |  External Relations  |  from IndiaTimes

Russia, which is helping Iran build nuclear plants, now wants to add Syria to its list of investments in atomic energy while the US enlists support for the idea of making Middle East free of nuclear weapons.

• Date: 12.05.2010  |  Published on EGF: 12.05.2010  |  Energy  |  from voiceofthecopts.org

Syria and Qatar back Turkish efforts for a diplomatic solution to the row over Iran's nuclear program, Turkey's foreign minister said after leaders of the three countries met, a report said.

• Date: 11.05.2010  |  Published on EGF: 11.05.2010  |  External Relations  |  from hurriyetdailynews.com

A day after 8 CRPF troopers were killed in a landmine blast by Maoists in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district, a top police official said the guerrillas have massively mined the state's forested areas and it was difficult to de-mine the vast stretches.

• Date: 09.05.2010  |  Published on EGF: 09.05.2010  |  External Relations  |  from IndiaTimes

Brazil has advanced a proposal to unblock the Iranian nuclear dossier that is in fact the common view among the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China), the emerging geopolitical counter-power to United States hegemony.

• Date: 06.05.2010  |  Published on EGF: 06.05.2010  |  Energy  |  from atimes.com

Kyrgyzstan's interim government has begun a criminal investigation of local companies -- allegedly controlled by the son of ousted president Kurmanbek Bakiyev -- that were sources of fuel supplied to a key U.S. air base in the Central Asian country.

• Date: 06.05.2010  |  Published on EGF: 06.05.2010  |  Security  |  from washingtonpost.com