Some 200 members of Syria's ruling Baath party are reported to have resigned over the violent crackdown against pro-democracy demonstrations.
The resignations were centred on the southern city of Deraa, a focal point of violence that has allegedly killed 450 people in six weeks.

• Date: 28.04.2011  |  Published on EGF: 28.04.2011  |  Security  |  from bbc.co.uk

The interior ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), an intergovernmental security body, will meet on Thursday in the Kazakh capital Astana to discuss efforts to fight crime.

• Date: 28.04.2011  |  Published on EGF: 28.04.2011  |  External Relations  |  from rian.ru

China and Kyrgyzstan agreed on Tuesday to promote regional peace and security via closer cooperation on law enforcement and security.

• Date: 27.04.2011  |  Published on EGF: 27.04.2011  |  External Relations  |  from People's Daily

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

China on Thursday joined Russia in vaguely backing India's quest for a permanent Security Council seat but there was no promise that Beijing would vote for New Delhi's inclusion on UN high table.

• Date: 15.04.2011  |  Published on EGF: 15.04.2011  |  External Relations  |  from indiatimes.com

The war in Afghanistan is in danger of becoming a forgotten conflict because of events in Libya and across the Middle East, David Miliband has warned.

• Date: 13.04.2011  |  Published on EGF: 13.04.2011  |  External Relations  |  from bbc.co.uk