Georgian special services have foiled an attempt by a Russian citizen to sell weapons-grade uranium for $1 million in the Georgian capital, a senior Interior Ministry official said on Thursday.
The official said Oleg Khintsagov, a resident of Russia’s North Ossetia region, was arrested in early 2006 and a closed court soon after convicted him to [...]

Pakistan will start mining and fencing of its border with Afghanistan next month after addressing all reservations of the United Nations, Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao told reporters here.
The proposal has evoked a strong reaction from opposition parties, the NWFP government and others within and outside the country.
Sherpao acknowledged that the Geneva Convention prohibited [...]

Oil prices fell slightly todayafter suffering the biggest one-day fall for more than a year yesterday.
New York’s main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in December, fell 11 cents to 58.25 dollars per barrel in electronic deals before the official opening of the US market Tuesday.
In London, Brent North Sea crude for December delivery dipped [...]

Hundreds of Bari Indians, most clad in loincloths and carrying bows and arrows, came down from the hills in their first march ever Thursday to demand that the state-owned oil company stop drilling on sacred land abutting their reservation.
The 700 protesters rallied in one of Colombia’s most war-ravaged regions on Columbus Day — commemorated as [...]

Assailants in Kyrgyzstan’s capital shot and wounded a representative of a British gold-mining company, embroiled in a dispute over rights to a gold deposit in the ex-Soviet republic, an official said.
Several people ambushed British citizen Sean Daley, who represents London-based Oxus Gold PLC, late Thursday night near his home in Bishkek, said Interior Ministry spokeswoman [...]