China’s policy towards Iran, especially with respect to nuclear proliferation, and its reported sale of solid-fuel missiles to Saudi Arabia, are further indicators of China’s global strategy to challenge what it perceives as declining US power.

• September 3, 2010

Ukraine is willing to give Russia joint control of a pipeline to southeastern Europe in exchange for access to natural gas supplies, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said as the country’s negotiate a gas venture.

• September 3, 2010

Russia announced a 12-month extension of its grain export ban on Thursday, raising fears about a return to the food shortages and riots of 2007-08 which spread through developing countries dependent on imports.

• September 3, 2010

Wheat climbs after Russia, the third-largest grower last year, extends a ban on exports into next year after a drought destroyed crops, tightening global supplies.

• September 3, 2010

The Foreign Ministry said Thursday it has set up a task force to examine Japan’s policies concerning the North Pole, as melting ice due to global warming opens the door to increased ship navigation and chances for resource development in the Arctic sea.

• September 3, 2010

Estonia’s largest natural gas supplier Eesti Gaas raises on Wednesday the price of gas for home consumers and small-time consumers have to pay 10.3 kroons per cubic metre instead of the earlier 8.8 kroons

• September 2, 2010

In its first transaction in Baltics, the EBRD-EIB Multilateral Carbon Credit Fund (MCCF) has agreed to buy carbon credits from a group of wind farms managed by OÜ Nelja Energia, a renewable energy company, owned by Freenergy AS, a leading Estonian investor in renewable energy in Eastern Europe, the EBRD announced on Wednesday.

• September 2, 2010

A delegation of Pakistani military officials decided to cancel a meeting this week with U.S. military officials in protest after they were taken off a plane and questioned at Washington's Dulles International Airport, according to a Pakistani official.

• September 2, 2010