Kim Kwang-jin says that when he worked for North Korea's state insurance company in Singapore in 2003, he stuffed $20 million into two suitcases one day and sent it to Pyongyang as a special gift for then leader Kim Jong-il.

• Date: 18.02.2013  |  Published on EGF: 18.02.2013  |  Security  |  from reuters.com

Armenians have been casting their ballots in the country's latest presidential election.

• Date: 18.02.2013  |  Published on EGF: 18.02.2013  |  Markets  |  from rferl.org

India wants a share in gas fields in Turkmenistan from where the proposed $9-billion transnational gas pipeline will cross terrorist-infested regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan to deliver gas across the Punjab border.

• Date: 18.02.2013  |  Published on EGF: 18.02.2013  |  Energy  |  from indiatimes.com

A small army of workers set to work Saturday to replace the estimated 200,000 square meters (50 acres) of windows shattered by the shock wave from a meteor that exploded over Russia's Chelyabinsk region.

• Date: 16.02.2013  |  Published on EGF: 16.02.2013  |  from indiatimes.com

Iran does not want nuclear weapons but if it did, no world power could prevent it from obtaining one, local media quoted the country's Supreme Leader as saying on Saturday, Feb 16.

• Date: 16.02.2013  |  Published on EGF: 16.02.2013  |  Security  |  from panarmenian.net

Ukraine has reached a tentative agreement with Turkmenistan to resume imports of natural gas from the Central Asian country.

• Date: 16.02.2013  |  Published on EGF: 16.02.2013  |  Energy  |  from rferl.org

South African authorities will have to address two critical issues as the country faces signing for its new nuclear procurement megaplan.

• Date: 15.02.2013  |  Published on EGF: 15.02.2013  |  Energy  |  from mg.co.za

Oddball, outlandish and eternally secretive, the country has provided a rich seam of humour for the world's comedians.

• Date: 15.02.2013  |  Published on EGF: 15.02.2013  |  Security  |  from heraldscotland.com