A continuing tense diplomatic standoff between US and China is a further sign that the Obama administration is exploiting the tensions on the Korean peninsula, inflamed by last week’s exchange of shelling between the two Koreas, to intensify American pressure against China.

• Date: 03.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 03.12.2010  |  External Relations  |  from wsws.org

The Russian Ambassador to Pakistan said that his country had asked Pakistan to sign over Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Addressing a roundtable, Russian Ambassador Andrey Budnik said that Russia had been persuading Pakistan, India and Israel for signing the NPT to make the world free of nuclear weapons.

• Date: 03.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 03.12.2010  |  Energy  |  from brecorder.com

The leaked U.S. diplomatic cables that portray Russia as a virtual mafia state are "total nonsense" of doubtful authenticity, the spokesman of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Thursday.

• Date: 03.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 03.12.2010  |  External Relations  |  from seattlepi.com

Hoping to defuse the latest round of tensions over a strategically important American air base, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday that the United States would steer part of a lucrative Pentagon jet fuel contract to a newly created Kyrgyz state-owned corporation.

• Date: 03.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 03.12.2010  |  External Relations  |  from nytimes.com

In a surprise victory for President Obama's campaign to secure nuclear material worldwide, the government of Belarus announced Wednesday that it will give up its stock of highly enriched uranium, a critical component of nuclear weapons.

• Date: 02.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 02.12.2010  |  Energy  |  from washingtonpost.com

Russia announced Wednesday that it had created the world's first international atomic fuel bank as part of a global effort to curb the spread of nuclear arms.

• Date: 02.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 02.12.2010  |  Energy  |  from inquirer.net

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.

• Date: 01.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 01.12.2010  |  Security  |  from todayszaman.com

US and UK diplomats warn of terrorists getting hold of fissile material and of Pakistan-India nuclear exchange

• Date: 01.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 01.12.2010  |  External Relations  |  from guardian.co.uk