The stakes could not have been higher for the presidents of Russia and Iran as they huddled behind closed doors here to address their biggest-ever rift in relations.

• November 19, 2010

OTCOB-listed oil and gas exploration and development firm International Oil and Gas Company has signed a memorandum of understanding with Uzbek state oil and gas company, Uzbekneftegaz National Holding Company.

• November 19, 2010

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has stated that he will extend official invitations to hold ministerial-level meetings between Syria, Turkey, and Bulgaria in the coming days. He said that this is in order to discuss cooperation between the three states in the fields of energy, natural gas, and transportation.

• November 18, 2010

The foreign ministers of Poland and Sweden accused Ukraine on Wednesday of dragging its heels on urgently needed reforms.

• November 18, 2010

Russia is ready for more cooperation with Armenia, including economic aid, Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said here on Wednesday during his meeting with visiting Armenian President Serge Sargisyan.

• November 18, 2010

India's central bank governor has warned that the country needs a "quantum step" in investment to achieve the ambitious double-digit economic growth rate forecast by Manmohan Singh, the Indian prime minister.

• November 18, 2010

The large fountain statue of 10 horses rises in the Turkmenistan’s capital Ashgabad yesterday. The Central Asian nation, which sits atop the world’s fourth-biggest natural gas reserves, is looking to diversify energy supplies and is pushing to revive plans to build a pipeline to deliver gas from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan to Pakistan and India.

• November 18, 2010

Britain's HSBC bank was chosen Tuesday to advise Bulgaria on restructuring and financing its Belene nuclear power plant project in the north of the country, Economy and Energy Minister Traicho Traikov said.

• November 17, 2010