RUSSIA

For Russia, oil revenue pays for half of its budget; for Venezuela, it's 96 percent.

Brooklyn Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov isn't the only Russian billionaire pulling out of U.S. investments.

Swiss National Bank scrapped a three-year-old cap on the franc, sending the safe-haven currency soaring through the 1.20 per euro limit.

The united resolve by President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron comes ahead of the latter's two-day trip to Washington.

Ukrainian forces are losing ground inside Donetsk airport as rebel fighters impose themselves.

The delay may cost France billions in penalties if Russia proceeds with legal action.

U.S. crew members were told to evacuate their section of the International Space Station following an ammonia leak.

The two men in the video are shown speaking in Russian and confessing to working for Russia’s Federal Security Service.

World GDP growth will reach 3.3 percent in 2016, compared to a June forecast of 3.5 percent, before dipping to 3.2 percent in 2017, it said.

Officials are concerned that sanctions are not sufficient to stop North Korea's provocations, and it needs to be cut off from its financial allies.

Experts agree that the war in eastern Ukraine will get worse as a peace summit is canceled.

With the Samsung Galaxy S5 now updating to Android 5.0 Lollipop in the U.K., other major markets, including the U.S., may also soon receive the software.

After months of fighting, pro-Russian forces are close to taking a key target in the Ukrainian civil war.

Russian, German and French leaders had been invited to talks in the Kazakh capital Astana by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.

President Nicolas Maduro says right-wing agitators and Venezuela's elite are trying to topple him.

An investment deal between Facebook and Xiaomi would have been lucrative for both companies.

Russia may have sent another submarine to Swedish waters at the height of a crisis with the West.

Almost a year after his downfall, Viktor Yanukovych is on the wanted list at the request of those who ousted him.

Iranian and Western officials have said differences remain over Tehran's uranium enrichment capacity.

Several world leaders marched together, in Paris, in a show of solidarity against terrorism.

Thousands of French citizens and almost two dozen world leaders will turn out Sunday to condemn the terrorist acts that rocked the country.