The Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch and British empires, among others, carried Western Christianity to sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia and Americas regions that in the century experienced much population growth than Europe. ..…

Arab states had blocked Israel from membership in the Asia-Pacific Group, which includes other Middle Eastern states. Israel was made a temporary member of the Western European and Others Group in 2000 by the United States and some European countries. . ..…

The Middle East includes Southwest Asia from Iran and westward to Turkey and Cyprus plus countries in North Africa. ..…

The Middle East and North America have grown as destination regions of international migrants from 1990 to 2013, as have several Western European countries. A smaller share of international migrants lives in Asia in 2013 than three decades ago. ..…

It would embolden a regime that has brutalized its own people, and it would embolden Iran’s proxies, who have carried out terrorist attacks from the Levant to southwest Asia. . ..…

Kyrgyzstan, a predominantly Muslim nation in Central-Western Asia, also continued to have high social hostilities in the period ending in mid-2009. ..…

He's asking European countries to support U.S. objectives in western and central Asia, and he's also trying to restore the legitimacy of American power after a period when it reached its lowest levels of the last century. . ..…

Evangelical, Catholic and mainline Protestant Christians found allies among Tibetan Buddhists, Iranian Bahai, Buddhists in Southeast Asia and China, and Muslim Uighars in western China. ..…

The problem is complex, and we do not know yet how it will end, except we have opened new prospects for relations with Afghanistan, and with the states of Central Asia, Pakistan, Russia, and, as it may develop, of Southwest Asia more generally... ..…

it promoted Japan, Germany and Western Europe in the postwar years, and Eastern Europe and other parts of Asia in the 1980s and 1990s, there were large parts of the world where United States was indifferent or even hostile to democracy. ..…

This really is a time for cool heads in both east Asia and the Middle East. Where Iran is concerned, western Europe's present leadership deficits – Angela Merkel's weakness, Theresa May's Brexit distraction, and Emmanuel Macron’s fall from grace – bode ill. ..…

The allocation falls under EBRD's Trade Facilitation Programme, North Africa, and Central and Western Asia. ..…