UKRAINE

Moldova is torn between re-electing a pro-European coalition and choosing parties that back stronger economic ties with Russia.

The airliner crashed in Ukraine in pro-Russian rebel-held territory on July 17, killing 298 people.

Separatists and the organizations behind rebel elections in east Ukraine will be hit with asset freezes and travel bans.

The successful test is part of an ambitious military modernization program.

While the Russian defense ministry announced its navy was holding drills in the Channel, the French navy denied the claim.

Rebels in Ukraine are moving into the central and western areas of the country, the nation's security service says.

Cluster bombs are banned in most countries, but some financial institutions are investing in the companies that make them.

The names of the newly sanctioned are likely to be published in the EU’s official journal Saturday.

NATO leaders envisaged a force able to quickly reinforce eastern Europe

A price war would hurt top non-OPEC exporter Russia, which has clashed with Saudi Arabia over Moscow's support for Syrian President Bashar Assad.

More than two thirds of the deputies in the 450-seat parliament voted for Yatseniuk to stay as head of government.

But 45 percent said they would be happy if they did learn soldiers were sent there.

Ukraine and Russia had signed a deal in late October to continue gas supplies through the winter as a temporary solution to a payments stand-off.

More than a dozen top-notch fighter jets will be able to patrol the Black Sea easily, on Ukraine's doorstep.

OPEC's meeting on Thursday will be one of the most crucial in recent years, with oil prices having tumbled some 30 percent since June.

With tensions rising in Ukraine, France puts an end to talks of delivery of two helicopter carriers to Russia.

On the downside, equipment investment tumbled by 2.3 percent, while gross capital and construction investment also fell.

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The German economy has been hit by a slowdown in key euro zone trading partners.

The fall in oil prices is also affecting the Russian economy significantly and led another official to call the sanctions "blackmail."

The death toll among Ukrainian soldiers since the ceasefire came into force now stands at about 150, according to Kiev's military.