Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif rejected U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's pinning of blame on Iran for the lack of a deal on its nuclear program last week, saying splits between Western powers prevented a breakthrough.

• November 12, 2013

Italy on Monday called on the European Union to press Libya to stem the gangs smuggling migrants from Africa on overcrowded boats and prevent shipwrecks like the one that killed hundreds last month.

• November 12, 2013

When Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov was trying to warn former Soviet satellite Poland against joining the U.S.-led NATO military alliance in the 1990s, he laced gallows humor with veiled menace.

• November 11, 2013

U.S. trade officials and industry groups on Friday aired concerns about Chinese trade protectionism while voicing hope that an economic agenda-setting meeting of China's top leaders this weekend would launch deeper reforms.

• November 9, 2013

Negotiations between Iran and six world powers will resume on Saturday morning after top diplomats from the United States, Iran and European Union made progress during talks on Tehran's nuclear program, a senior U.S. State Department official said.

• November 9, 2013

World powers and Iran are working intensively to advance talks in Geneva over Iran's disputed nuclear program, a spokesman for European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said on Friday.

• November 8, 2013

Six world powers and Iran could agree on a "road map" for ending the dispute over Tehran's nuclear program at talks in Geneva on Friday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

• November 8, 2013

A Snapshot of Key Developments in the External Relations of the Russian Gas Sector
By Jack Sharples, EGF Associate Researcher on the external dimensions of Russian gas

Key points:

• Special In-Depth Report: Gazprom loses export monopoly as Novatek and Rosneft win the right to export LNG
• Gazprom’s exports to Europe in October jump 17% y-o-y as year-to-date exports increase 16% y-o-y; European Commission Antitrust Regulators prepare charges against Gazprom
• Gazprom demands that Naftogaz pay overdue $900m gas bill for August gas supplies a month ahead of the Ukrainian government’s planned signing of a Free Trade and Association Agreement with the European Union
• South Stream construction begins in Bulgaria with aim of December 2015 launch
• Gazprom and CNPC to finalise deal by year end: Russian Energy Minister
• Gazprom launches its first solo offshore gas production project

• November 8, 2013