The United States is nearing a decision on whether to take action at the World Trade Organzation against China's rare earth minerals export restraints or other practices by Beijing to help its clean energy sector.

• Date: 21.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 21.12.2010  |  External Relations  |  from indiatoday.in

Russia has asked South Korea to stop a scheduled joint military exercise with the United States, hours after North Korea warned it will strike back if the South proceeds with the drill.

• Date: 18.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 18.12.2010  |  External Relations  |  from timesofearth.com

President Barack Obama took a step toward a major foreign policy accomplishment as the Senate began debate on a U.S.-Russia nuclear pact.

• Date: 16.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 16.12.2010  |  Energy  |  from seattlepi.com

Majority Leader Harry Reid thinks the votes are there to pass the accord with Russia. But some GOP senators have reservations.

• Date: 15.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 15.12.2010  |  Energy  |  from latimes.com

Many people wouldn't know that former United States president Ronald Reagan's signature phrase "trust, but verify" is actually the translation of a Russian proverb - doveryai, no proveryai. Two decades into the post-Cold War era, Moscow wants to reclaim the self-contradictory phrase from the American repertoire and apply it to Russia's "reset" of ties with the United States.

• Date: 14.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 14.12.2010  |  External Relations  |  from atimes.com

One of the first cables released by the website WikiLeaks was a May, 2009 cable regarding the delay of removing High Enriched Uranium (HEU) by the U.S. from Pakistan's Atomic Research Reactor-1 (PARR) near Islamabad. In 2007, the Pakistani government agreed to allow the U.S. to ship the unknown quantity of HEU back to the U.S.

• Date: 14.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 14.12.2010  |  External Relations  |  from foreignpolicy.com

While President Obama presses the Senate to embrace a new arms control treaty with Russia, another nuclear pact with Moscow cleared its final hurdle on Thursday after more than four years with virtually no notice but potentially significant impact.

• Date: 10.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 10.12.2010  |  Energy  |  from nytimes.com

The former Soviet republic of Georgia wants the United States to outline the steps necessary for it to join NATO.

• Date: 10.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 10.12.2010  |  External Relations  |  from chron.com