Catherine Putz SPECIAL TO EMIRATES BUSINESS Leaders from the Eurasian Economic Union are set to meet on April 8 in Yerevan, Armenia. But in light of the recent heat-up of that country’s frozen conflict with neighboring Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh, the union’s other members are looking for a change in venue. The EEU encompasses Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan. RFE/RL …

Since 1967, when then-Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato introduced the “three non-nuclear principles,” Japan has existed in a state of contradiction when it comes to the question of nuclear weapons’ place in the world: while Japanese leaders call for the global abolition of nuclear weapons, they simultaneously acknowledge the importance of nuclear deterrence and Japan’s reliance on the U.S. nuclear …

BLOOMBERG U.S. stocks slipped, gold rallied and the yen strengthened to a 17-month high amid renewed concern that central bank policies have failed to revitalize growth. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index retreated into the middle of range that’s bound trading since the Federal Reserve’s March 16 meeting, while European equities reversed gains as bank shares slid. Gold rose after …