The leaked U.S. diplomatic cables that portray Russia as a virtual mafia state are "total nonsense" of doubtful authenticity, the spokesman of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Thursday.

• December 3, 2010

The Russian Ambassador to Pakistan said that his country had asked Pakistan to sign over Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Addressing a roundtable, Russian Ambassador Andrey Budnik said that Russia had been persuading Pakistan, India and Israel for signing the NPT to make the world free of nuclear weapons.

• December 3, 2010

A continuing tense diplomatic standoff between US and China is a further sign that the Obama administration is exploiting the tensions on the Korean peninsula, inflamed by last week’s exchange of shelling between the two Koreas, to intensify American pressure against China.

• December 3, 2010

Russia announced Wednesday that it had created the world's first international atomic fuel bank as part of a global effort to curb the spread of nuclear arms.

• December 2, 2010

In a surprise victory for President Obama's campaign to secure nuclear material worldwide, the government of Belarus announced Wednesday that it will give up its stock of highly enriched uranium, a critical component of nuclear weapons.

• December 2, 2010

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called on a European security organization Wednesday to play a bigger role in helping stabilize Afghanistan and to do more to strengthen the voice of human rights groups worldwide.

• December 1, 2010

US and UK diplomats warn of terrorists getting hold of fissile material and of Pakistan-India nuclear exchange

• December 1, 2010

Secretive North Korea boasted advances in its nuclear program on Tuesday, making sure it held the world’s attention, saying it had thousands of working centrifuges, as pressure built on China to rein in its ally.

• December 1, 2010