Violent clashes between police and protestors broke out on Wednesday in Kyrgyzstan. The protests are in response to the country's endemic corruption and the rising cost of living.

• Date: 08.04.2010  |  Published on EGF: 08.04.2010  |  Security  |  from Deutsche Welle

Riot police fire tear gas and stun grenades to disperse opposition protesters in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, reports say.

• Date: 07.04.2010  |  Published on EGF: 07.04.2010  |  Markets  |  from bbc.co.uk

Rusmet reported that till recent time rebar was the easiest touch in the Middle East long products market.

• Date: 06.04.2010  |  Published on EGF: 06.04.2010  |  Markets  |  from steelguru.com

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