The radiation leak at a Japanese nuclear power plant following Friday's earthquake and tsunami threatens to hurt an industry that has enjoyed a rebirth since the Three Mile Island accident in 1979 and the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.

• Date: 12.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 12.03.2011  |  Energy  |  from emirates247.com

With the price of oil climbing to more than $100 a barrel, Russia has a little more weight to throw around on the world stage, and it is doing just that.

• Date: 11.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 11.03.2011  |  Energy  |  from washingtonpost.com

Vice President Biden told Russian President Dmitry Medvedev Wednesday that he had been around Washington so long he actually knew Sen. Henry Jackson and Rep. Charles Vanik, authors of a 1974 trade restriction law that is still an irritant in U.S.-Russian relations. It is high time to get rid of it, he said.

• Date: 10.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 10.03.2011  |  External Relations  |  from washingtonpost.com

The United States and the EU have once again repeated the unfounded claims questioning the peaceful nature of our nuclear activities without presenting any authenticated evidence, Iran's Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) Ali Asghar Soltanieh told to reporters in the Austrian capital

• Date: 10.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 10.03.2011  |  External Relations  |  from trend.az

Pakistan agreed to discuss frameworks that would facilitate trade and economic relations between Pakistan and Tajikistan to provide latter an easy access to its ports, especially to its southwestern Gwadar Port, local media reported

• Date: 09.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 09.03.2011  |  External Relations  |  from People's Daily

Russia's oil giant Lukoil intends to develop wind and solar power plants in Bulgaria and Romania, Vasily Zubakin, deputy head of the company's main energy division, said as quoted by news agency Ria Novosti.

• Date: 09.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 09.03.2011  |  Energy  |  from sofiaecho.com

George Perkovich, director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, confessed to his audience, "Those who really know what's going on in Pakistan's nuclear complex aren't talking about it, and those who are talking, including myself, don't really know what's going on in Pakistan's nuclear complex."

• Date: 08.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 08.03.2011  |  External Relations  |  from foreignpolicy.com

Lebanese protesters have called for an end to the country’s sectarian political system.

• Date: 07.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 07.03.2011  |  Security  |  from euronews.net