China is ramping-up its military presence facing Taiwan despite the easing of hostilities across the Strait, a defense ministry report cited by local media warned yesterday.

• Date: 02.09.2010  |  Published on EGF: 02.09.2010  |  External Relations  |  from chinapost.com.tw

Clarity is needed in all Iranian nuclear program issues, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday.

• Date: 01.09.2010  |  Published on EGF: 01.09.2010  |  Energy  |  from rian.ru

Clarity is needed in all Iranian nuclear program issues, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday.

• Date: 01.09.2010  |  Published on EGF: 31.08.2010  |  Energy  |  from rian.ru

Two years ago, Abkhazia declared its independence from Georgia with Russian support. This summer, the breakaway republic announced its possession of Russian missiles in a bid to demonstrate its claimed sovereignty.

• Date: 25.08.2010  |  Published on EGF: 26.08.2010  |  External Relations  |  from Deutsche Welle

President Hamid Karzai says he wants them out of Afghanistan, while US President Barack Obama is planning to use them in Iraq to supplant withdrawn US combat troops. So how open to abuse are private military companies?

• Date: 24.08.2010  |  Published on EGF: 25.08.2010  |  Security  |  from Deutsche Welle

Japan's foreign minister warned India on Saturday against conducting any new nuclear tests, saying such a move would force a halt to any civilian nuclear cooperation between the two countries.

• Date: 24.08.2010  |  Published on EGF: 24.08.2010  |  Energy  |  from defencetalk.com

The first decade of what more than a generation ago was predicted to be the Asian Century is winding down, marking ten years since the end of the American Century.

• Date: 24.08.2010  |  Published on EGF: 24.08.2010  |  Security  |  from mediamonitors.net

Iran has crossed a new nuclear threshold, but it’s one the Obama administration isn’t worried about.

• Date: 23.08.2010  |  Published on EGF: 23.08.2010  |  Energy  |  from kansascity.com