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

The Japanese prime minister is facing an election disaster as forecasts show he lost control of the upper house of parliament in Sunday's election.

• July 12, 2010

Last week, with a neat turn of phrase, United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton captured the quintessence of the United States "reset" of ties with Russia.

• July 12, 2010

Poland has a new president, Bronislaw Komorowski, who was declared the winner of the second round of presidential elections. The results of Sunday's election bring the presidency more in line with the government, and could strengthen Poland's ties with the rest of Europe.

• 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

Baku, Fineko/abc.az. Azerbaijan has no need of building of new hydroelectric power stations (HPS) to increase of share of hydropower industry in power balance of the country 4-fold that became phenomenal progress in development of use of alternative and renewable energy sources.

• July 10, 2010