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Ashgabat, 4 December 2007 (nCa) --- Gazprom, the Russian monopoly that is main supplier of natural gas to Ukraine and Europe, has informed today that it will charge US $ 179.5 per thousand cubic meters for gas supplies to Ukraine ...

Ashgabat, 18 July 2007 (nCa) --- London School of Business and Finance is offering a whole range of new scholarships for talented students from the emerging markets. Students from Central Asia stand to benefit from this opportunity. ...

NEW YORK, 10 July 2007 --- Oil prices jumped to an 11-month high above $76 a barrel and neared a new record on Tuesday as tensions mounted between Iran and the United States and speculators kept pouring money into energy ...

Congressional analysts say the boost in troop levels in Iraq has increased the cost of war there and in Afghanistan to $12 billion a month. All told, Congress has appropriated $610 billion in war-related money since Sept. 11, 2001. ...

Islamabad, 10 July 2007 --- Pakistani forces killed a rebel Islamist leader and more than 50 of his militants on Tuesday after 15 hours of fighting in a Islamabad mosque compound at the climax of a week-long siege. Militants ...

LONDON, 9 July 2007 --- Giant Russian energy firm Gazprom wants to be the world's first firm with a stock market value of $1 trillion, its deputy chief executive revealed yesterday. Alexander Medvedev did not give a timetable for ...

Moscow, 9 July 2007 (RIA Novosti) --- Russia's government has approved the charter of state-owned Atomenergoprom, which will incorporate the country's leading civilian nuclear energy companies, a source in the Russian Nuclear Power Agency (Rosatom) said Monday. Rosatom earlier ...

Islamabad, 9 July 2007 --- Officials say a Pakistani cleric under siege in a mosque in the capital, Islamabad, has agreed to hold talks with seven top religious leaders, overseen by a former prime minister. Abdul Rashid Ghazi made ...