MOSCOW, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Top officials with Russian energy giant Gazprom and the Hungarian state bank discussed the construction of the South Stream natural gas pipeline.

The Pakistani government is ignoring warnings from Washington and moving ahead with talks with Tehran on the Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline; a spokesman for the German government said it would formally support the Nord Stream gas pipeline; the Austrian government needs to expedite its ratification of formal contracts for the Nabucco gas pipeline or face a possible gas shortage, Iran said.

BERLIN, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- The German government lodged a formal complaint regarding alleged interference by U.S. officials in a planned natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany.