RUSSIA

Sending weapons to Ukraine could escalate fighting, but may be necessary to confront Russia's wider aggression.

The baseline budget is the biggest in history, bigger in fact than spending caps will allow.

The Ukrainian government also announced plans to boost its forces in the country's east.

Alexis Tsipras, Greece's leftist prime minister, says he intends to pursue his mandate of renegotiating debt terms with Europe.

As pro-Russian rebels intensify their attacks in Ukraine, the U.S. is reconsidering the question of providing more lethal assistance to Kiev.

The call comes one day after the latest round of truce talks buckled in Minsk Saturday.

North Korea accused Washington of trying to shift the blame for the deadlock in negotiations over the country's controversial nuclear program.

Even the Belarusian president dubbed "the last dictator in Europe" is distancing himself from Moscow these days.

The rearmament of strategic nuclear missile forces is an absolute priority, according to the Russian government.

U.S. stocks were hit hard in January, with the blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average dropping 3.7 percent.

Global fears weighed on the financial markets Friday after the U.S. economy grew slower than expected last quarter.

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Russian oil giant Rosneft won't drill in the Arctic this year -- a major blow to Russia's efforts to expand its much-needed oil revenue.

It's unclear whether Romney's announcement Friday will be a presidential run, forming an exploratory committee or not running in 2016.

A Russian envoy said the two planes were on a routine patrol flight over the North Atlantic.

The discussions, aimed at ending the over four-year Syrian civil war, were not attended by the U.S.-backed Syrian National Coalition.

The Sarmat Nuclear ICBM would replace the largest nuclear missile in the world, nicknamed “SS-18 Satan” by NATO.

The popular eatery chain is banking on metrics of "Shack-onomics" to boost market value to more than $675 million.

Ukraine reported earlier this week that it had shot down several Soviet-era fighters from the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic.

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is accusing the West of "dragging" Russia into a military conflict.

The Russian bombers, capable of carrying nuclear missiles, were detected as they flew south of Bournemouth on Wednesday.