ISLAMABAD, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Turkmenistan's national gas company has agreed to take a 51 percent stake in a consortium seeking to build a long-planned gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, an official involved in the project said on Wednesday.
BEIJING, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Britain's top diplomat called for freedom of navigation and overflights in the disputed South China Sea on Wednesday but stopped short of criticising China, whose assertive territorial claims have unnerved some of its neighbours and the United States.
LAUNCESTON, Australia, Aug 12 (Reuters) - The only thing that's completely predictable about carbon emissions policies is that nobody will be satisfied.