Ukraine’s state-owned ore extracting company, is seeking 6.5 billion hryvnia ($810 million) in loans from state lenders to explore for uranium at the Novokonstantinovskoe deposit, Ekonomicheskie Izvestia reported.

• July 11, 2011

The United States will look to enhance the scope of counter-terrorism cooperation with India during the second US-India Strategic Dialogue to be held in New Delhi in the third week of July.

• July 9, 2011

The United States has condemned the increasingly heavy-handed tactics employed by Belarus authorities against demonstrators and journalists during the weekly peaceful protests that began in early June

• July 8, 2011

A major battle between Slovakia’s environmentalists and the government is emerging as Greenpeace charges that the country’s recently completed nuclear power plant at Mochovce in Nitra has in fact violated the public’s rights.

• July 6, 2011

On March 26, the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant's No. 1 reactor would have celebrated its 40th birthday, making it a senior citizen, where once, utilities estimated reactors' life spans to be 30 to 40 years.

• July 6, 2011

Fresh doubts have emerged over the delivery of Britain's nuclear ambitions, after EDF said it would issue an "adjusted timetable" for construction and RWE admitted it was still deciding "how to move on with the project".

• July 6, 2011

Nowhere has this policy been more evident than in the Caspian basin and the energy riches of the new post-Soviet states of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan.

• July 5, 2011

Russia stepped up its efforts to negotiate a resolution to the war in Libya, with officials here receiving the president of South Africa, who has offered his services as a mediator, and the secretary general of NATO.

• July 5, 2011