Representatives from the US and the European Union (EU) were optimistic about the possibility of reaching a global agreement to combat climate change, but stated that the negotiations for a new climate treaty will be anything but easy. After two days of meetings of the 17 largest and emerging economies in the world, there [...]

The secretary-general of NATO, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, said here Tuesday that the organization agreed to resume in a “gradual and conditional” links with Russia.
The ties between the Western military alliance and Moscow were cut this year because of the Russian offensive in Georgia in August, leading to protests from European countries and the United [...]