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.

• November 30, 2010

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.

• November 30, 2010

The U.S. believes Russia has moved short-range tactical nuclear warheads to facilities near North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies as recently as this spring, U.S. officials say, adding to questions in Congress about Russian compliance with long-standing pledges ahead of a possible vote on a new arms-control treaty.

• November 30, 2010

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.

• November 29, 2010

Lithuania "has questions" about the report on the environmental impact assessment (EIA) of the future nuclear power plants in Belarus

• November 29, 2010

In late May 2009, Israel’s defense minister, Ehud Barak, used a visit from a Congressional delegation to send a pointed message to the new American president.

• November 29, 2010

An exact date has been set for a long-planned official visit to Turkey by Tajikistan’s President Emomali Rahmon, and the two-day visit will take place in mid-December in reciprocation of Turkish President Abdullah Gul’s visit to Dushanbe in May 2009.

• November 27, 2010

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev made no firm proposal to NATO about uniting their missile defence systems, a Russian ambassador said Friday after a report that the suggestion was rebuffed.

• November 27, 2010