President Obama is preparing to revive a civilian nuclear cooperation agreement with Moscow that his predecessor shelved two years ago in protest of Russia’s war with Georgia, an American ally, administration officials said Thursday.

• May 7, 2010

Countries around the globe are racing to lock down energy supplies to ensure economic security. The geopolitical implications are huge

• May 6, 2010

Brazil has advanced a proposal to unblock the Iranian nuclear dossier that is in fact the common view among the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China), the emerging geopolitical counter-power to United States hegemony.

• May 6, 2010

Russia's proposal to combine its gas export monopoly Gazprom with the Ukrainian state energy company was part of a strategy to lock in assets while Europe focused on Greece, Alexander Rahr, a Russia expert at the German council on foreign relations, said on Tuesday.

• May 6, 2010

Turkeys Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu spoke late Tuesday with his Brazilian counterpart on the phone regarding the Iranian nuclear issue.

• May 6, 2010

A Russian MP asks President Medvedev to look into claims by a regional president that he met aliens on board a spaceship.

• May 6, 2010

Chinese President Hu Jintao will discuss the Iranian nuclear standoff with Russian leaders during a weekend visit to Moscow, a Chinese official said Wednesday, noting the two sides had "similar views".

• May 6, 2010

Last fall, I boarded a ramshackle bus winding through the villages and vineyards on the Georgian side of the demarcation line with the breakaway region of South Ossetia. I was there to see what I could learn about the dangers of nuclear smuggling.

• May 6, 2010