The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday called on the Middle East and Central Asia (MECA) to play an active role in repairing the international financial system, and to implement the reforms needed to render the region's financial systems more resilient.

• July 13, 2010

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Monday Iran was gaining the ability to build a nuclear bomb, the strongest criticism of Iran's nuclear program to emerge from the Kremlin under either Medvedev or his predecessor, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

• July 13, 2010

North Korea postpones talks scheduled with the US-led United Nations Command about the sinking of a South Korean warship.

• July 13, 2010

The multi-billion-dollar Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) pipeline is back on India's agenda with the government planning to hold a bilateral meeting in Teheran on the issue after a gap of at least two years.

• July 12, 2010

American politicians often extol natural gas as abundant, cleaner-burning than other fossil fuels, and domestically produced, unlike Middle Eastern oil. But the process of extracting it is raising concerns among people with wells in their backyards.

• July 12, 2010

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski leaves Poland on Monday for a tour of Georgia, Armenia and Kazakhstan.

• July 12, 2010

While Washington and Moscow had their eyes on one another, Beijing stole the prize.

• July 12, 2010

Bulgaria stands to benefit a lot from the construction of the South Stream gas transit pipeline, according to Prime Minister Boyko Borisov.

• July 10, 2010