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Filmmaker Oleh Sentsov and activist Alexander Kolchenko were convicted Tuesday.

Russia military engineers arrived in France Tuesday to begin the process of taking back all the specialist military systems installed on the ships.

The Pentagon plans to deploy three nuclear-capable B-2 bombers to Guam to support ally South Korea.

Goni was accompanied with strong winds and heavy rains in most of western Japan.

“Russia’s military activity in the Ukraine continues to be of great concern to us and to our European allies,” U.S. Air Force Secretary Deborah James said.

The German chancellor Angela Merkel said that there could be a “four-party meeting’ to discuss eastern Ukraine crisis.

Choe Ryong Hae, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, will attend the Sept. 3 parade, Chinese deputy foreign minister Zhang Ming told a news briefing.

Earlier in the month, Roskomnadzor received a request from a Russian court to blacklist Wikipedia if the website did not delete the controversial article.

Emerging markets in Southeast Asia will suffer the most from Chinese devaluation but are protected from some of the worst losses seen in 1997.

European Union-led sanctions against Russia have caused many top weapons manufacturers to avoid attending the September event.

Acknowledging sexual minorities is an "important step" for expanding human rights, said Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N.

The recent financial market panic can be traced back to China's very real economic slowdown. Here's why it matters around the world.

The Asian country is the world's No. 2 defense spender and No. 3 exporter of weapons.

It's just the latest comment from a party leader advocating a ban on Western technology products.

For some factory workers, China's devaluation of the yuan may have come too late to save their jobs — at least for the moment.

On Monday, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said that economic sanctions against Tehran might begin to be lifted as early as spring next year.

Researchers warn of "very dramatic and very fast" changes to the boreal forest cover, which accounts for nearly 30 percent of the planet's total forest area.

The co-chairman of the Committee for Solidarity with the Peoples of Syria, said that Russia regularly provides economic, political and military aid to Syria.

The collapse of planned peace talks between India and Pakistan hours before they were to start on Sunday has raised questions about the arch-rivals' willingness to overcome mutual mistrust, built since their separation almost seven decades ago.

The blue-chip index suffered its ninth-biggest point drop ever Friday, slipping into correction territory for the first time since 2011.

Kristian Jensen said Friday that he intends to reopen political dialogue with Russia, amid Moscow's growing estrangement from the E.U.