RUSSIA

France said it was holding off on selling Russia a warship, but then allowed 200 Russian sailors to start sea trials aboard it.

Brent crude oil slumped to a more than two-year low under $97 per barrel.

The EU and the U.S. imposed late last week a fresh set of sanctions against Moscow for its policy on Ukraine.

Ukrainian troops beat back pro-Russian rebels in Donetsk, as Russian nationalists send aid to separatist-controlled Luhansk.

“There is no contract sanctity,” a U.S. official said. Accordingly, companies will have 14 days to wind down activities.

The U.S. Federal Reserve could signal the timing of its first interest-rate increase in more than eight years Wednesday.

The company has been reeling from the loss of two aircraft in separate incidents in 2014, which resulted in hundreds of deaths.

Ukrainian Azov battalion fighters depicted on ZDF TV wearing uniforms with swastikas and Nazi runic symbols.

Ukrainian Azov battalion fighters depicted on ZDF TV wearing uniforms with swastikas and Nazi runic symbols.

Arseniy Yatsenyuk made the comment after Europe decided to implement new sanctions against Russia over Ukraine.

The rover has reached the foot of a 3-mile-high Martian mountain, two years after beginning its search for life on the red planet.

Dzokhar Tsarnaev had said that the mastermind behind the Boston attack was his brother Tamerlan, who had also planned to attack Times Square.

Despite denials that Russian troops are in Ukraine, families with children in the Russian military are coping with 'mysterious' deaths.

Ten years ago, 170,000 people in the Russian Federation had human immunodeficiency virus. The estimated number now is 1.2 million.

Islamic State's Twitter users, which have trumpeted the group's violent acts and world view on the social media service, have gone quiet in past days.

Americans need to be more protective of their right to privacy, Sotomayor said.

You can't get to the French Riviera if your private jet won't take off.

Investors are weighing Russia's conflict with the West and a weakening Chinese economy.

The European Union has held out an olive branch, however, by saying it could lift some or even all of the sanctions within weeks.

Russia is looking to strengthen relations, as well as find new customers for its natural resources, in Asia, as relations sour with the West.

Warsaw said the volume of gas from Russia dropped by 45 percent, though Russia's Gazprom denied it had cut supplies.