Saudi Arabia and France yesterday signed a bilateral cooperation agreement on developing nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.

• February 23, 2011

Russia on Tuesday said it may extend a ban on grain exports that has been blamed for triggering global food price rises beyond its provisional expiry date of July 1.

• February 23, 2011

European plans to liberalise energy markets have undermined Russian investments, including the second phase of the Nord Stream gas pipeline to Germany, Russian Gas Society President Valery Yazev said on Monday.

• February 22, 2011

A visit to China by Kazakhstan's long-standing leader is further reinforcing the growing Chinese role in the resource-rich Central Asian nation, with deals to be signed Tuesday on uranium supplies and financing for oil projects.

• February 22, 2011

European leaders have launched a trillion-euro bid to cut dependence on Middle East oil and Russian gas, clearing the way to place nuclear power at the center of 21st-century needs.

• February 21, 2011

Iranian Deputy Energy Minister Mohammad Behzad said Iran will increase electricity export to Iraq with the construction of a new power transmission line

• February 21, 2011

The European Union agreed to provide Armenia with a loan of 65 million euros and a grant of up to 35 million euros to help the country out of the global economic crisis

• February 21, 2011

Despite tightening international economic sanctions, Iran is driving to boost its energy industry, including a natural gas pipeline to Iraq and Syria that may even run to southern Europe and another to run through Turkey to Europe.

• February 19, 2011