Hillary Clinton on Friday night renewed an offer of friendship to Iran but said the United States was "committed to defending its Gulf allies from regional threats".

• Date: 04.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 04.12.2010  |  Energy  |  from wn.com

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.

• Date: 03.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 03.12.2010  |  Energy  |  from brecorder.com

China has made global headlines in recent months for overtaking the US as the largest emitter of carbon dioxide, while state media ran almost daily stories of chemical water pollution and contaminated food, writes the Mail and Guardian.

• Date: 30.11.2010  |  Published on EGF: 30.11.2010  |  Energy  |  from itweb.co.za

Nuclear-armed North Korea boasted today it has "many thousands of centrifuges'' running at a new uranium enrichment plant, which has raised fears the regime wants to make more fuel for atom bombs.

• Date: 30.11.2010  |  Published on EGF: 30.11.2010  |  Energy  |  from theaustralian.com.au

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Turkmen counterpart Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov inaugurated on Sunday the last section of a pipeline to export Turkmen gas to northeast Iran, media reported.

• Date: 29.11.2010  |  Published on EGF: 29.11.2010  |  Energy  |  from france24.com

SOCAR has announced the discovery of a huge gas field Umid in the Azerbaijani section of the Caspian Sea, SOCAR president Rovnag Abdullayev said.

• Date: 26.11.2010  |  Published on EGF: 26.11.2010  |  Energy  |  from trend.az

Visiting Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan met with his Russian counterpart Igor Sechin on Monday, exchanging views on Sino-Russian bilateral energy cooperation and reaching consensus on further development.

• Date: 23.11.2010  |  Published on EGF: 23.11.2010  |  Energy  |  from ce.cn

Turkmenistan has won support from its Caspian neighbours to lay a pipeline under the sea and become a major gas supplier to Europe, a senior official said, boosting plans for the EU-backed Nabucco project.

• Date: 20.11.2010  |  Published on EGF: 20.11.2010  |  Energy  |  from tradearabia.com