Secretive North Korea boasted advances in its nuclear program on Tuesday, making sure it held the world’s attention, saying it had thousands of working centrifuges, as pressure built on China to rein in its ally.

• December 1, 2010

Russian corporation Rosatom and Bulgaria's National Electric Company NEK signed here Tuesday a memorandum on the Belene nuclear power plant (NPP) trying to revive this project.

• December 1, 2010

In Kyrgyzstan, the leaders of the Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan (SDPK) and Respublica gave to Omurbek Tekebaev signing the project of coalitional agreement.

• November 30, 2010

Before leaving for Kazakhstan to participate in the OSCE summit, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych will meet with economic teams of the government and the presidential administration, which are working on the Tax Code.

• November 30, 2010

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