Ukraine and Russia are expressing concern about their image as reliable gas suppliers amid growing gas shortages in Europe, for which Moscow and Kyiv are blaming each other. European officials warn of a crisis across region as a dispute between Russ...
Russia has stopped delivery of natural gas to Ukraine after the failure of last minute talks to reach agreement on a price for 2009. Both sides offer assurances that gas will continue to transit from Russia through pipelines in Ukraine to consumers...
By Deborah Block Washington 13 May 2008 As the price of gasoline continues to rise in the U.S., more Americans are buying smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles. Others are holding on to their big cars, in hopes that gas prices will eventually go down...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 02 April 2008 Israel is strengthening security on its home front in a sign of war jitters. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, Israel is casting a wary eye toward Iran. Israel's security Cabinet has decide...
By Margaret Besheer Irbil, Iraq 17 March 2007 In the volatile Western Iraqi province of Al-Anbar, suicide bombers driving trucks filled with chemicals struck at three different locations late Friday afternoon. U.S. military officials said Saturday at...
By Bill Gasperini Sakhalin, Russia 20 October 2006 A giant energy project on Russia's remote Sakhalin Island has recently come under scrutiny because of environmental concerns. A foreign run consortium has long been building parallel gas and oil pip...
A little old lady goes to the doctor ... and says, "Doctor, I have this problem with gas, but it doesn't really bother me too much. They never smell and are always silent. As a matter of fact, I've fa...
By Jim Malone Washington 26 April 2006 The rising cost of gasoline in the United States is the latest in a series of political problems facing President Bush and Republicans in Congress as they look a...
By Scott Stearns White House 25 April 2006 President Bush President Bush is temporarily suspending environmental rules on gasoline and deferring purchases for the nation's strategic reserves in hopes...
By Patricia Nunan Kathmandu 22 April 2006 Nepalese protesters throng a street as smoke billows from a roadblock made of burning tires, set up by protesters in defiance of a curfew called by the govern...