WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced last week in New York that his Islamic Republic is planning yet another "satellite launch" using a new, unnamed booster rocket.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- On September 19th, 2003, Russia and three of its trading partners -- Belarus, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan signed a common economic space agreement, called the CIS Common Economic Space (CES).

WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- What should the U.S. do when Realpolitik trumps good government, transparency, and the rule of law?

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- Geo-economic tectonic plates have shifted as the de-facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, Crown Prince Abullah has completed his visit to Russia last week. Oil, weapons and geopolitics drive the two countries'' newly found common agenda.

As the smoke was billowing Tuesday from a fire at a pipeline near Baghdad, oil analysts were focusing on restoring security to ensure a steady growth in Iraq's

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- As Kazakhstan prepares to host a United Nations conference on investment in landlocked countries later this month, its own investment record is decidedly mixed.

WASHINGTON, July 22 (UPI) -- The doubling of Russia''s GDP by 2010, announced by President Vladimir Putin in the State of the Federation speech on May 16, is unlikely if flagships of the Russian industry are sunk by its government. However, the Kremlin has gone far to destroy the cou

WASHINGTON, June 17 (UPI) -- As the Bush White House and the Temporary Administration in Baghdad headed by L. Paul Bremer are planning the future of post-­Saddam Iraq, economic issues also loom large on the horizon.

WASHINGTON, May 14 (UPI) -- The abstract will read thus if the box below is blank: A post-war reconstruction plan that distributes a percentage of Iraq''s petroleum revenues directly to Iraqi citizens will help rebuild the country''s economy and instill in Iraqis a sense of involve