The sanctions, not specified in the initial vote, will likely include more people under asset freezes and visa bans.
Unexpectedly, favored presidential candidate Joko Widodo's party won only 19 percent of the parliamentary seats.
Rebels in the eastern Ukraine town of Slaviansk Monday issued a bold call for Russian President Putin to help them.
Rather than being single-issue voters with narrow national interests, the survey suggests far-right Eurosceptics share a common set of values.
Turkey Mon. urged Twitter execs to open an office and start paying taxes in the first direct talks since a short-lived two-week ban.
Earlier, Russia's Deputy Premier Arkady Dvorkovich went to China as part of a delegation to discuss cooperation in the energy sector.
Retail sales account for a third of U.S. consumer spending, and a sustained increase bodes well for GDP, earnings and job growth.
Major Chinese property developers have in recent months been buying increasingly large stakes in regional banks - a problematic asset addition.
The former chief China analyst at Deutsche Bank is considered an insider in both the Western and the Chinese financial worlds.
Officials of the proposed French-Swiss company plan to unload billions in assets to get the regulatory blessing they need to merge.
President Putin also said Russia has no plans to halt deliveries to Ukraine, but it might make Kiev pay up front.
The country's immigration authority said Thursday it received almost 88,000 more visas than are available before closing the door for 2015.
The taxman took a bite out of U.S. stocks Thursday as investors sold to come up with the taxes due on short- and long-term capital gains.
Expectations for U.S. company earnings are on a slippery slope down Wall Street.
For Chinese investors, items in the Detroit Institute of Arts collection would be a point of national pride, not just portfolio pieces.
Like other World Cup hosts before it, the country will not gain its investment back anytime soon, and it may not be ready in time.
The plan authored by U.S. Rep. Ryan, R-Wis., would eliminate the deficit, due largely to deep spending cuts to social safety net programs.
Colombia continues to be one of the most dangerous countries for union activism despite years of free trade.
Russia military has the ability to move quickly into Ukraine, if it is ordered to do so, a NATO official added.
The 32,000-claim drop is more evidence that the U.S. job market, while not robust, continues to heal.
The Federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has made public how much Medicare pays individual physicians in the U.S.
The Canadian province of Quebec now has majority Liberal leadership, and the business community is relieved.
Beijing's policy of nonintervention in oil-producing countries is becoming a bit more flexible.
Rhinoceros poaching in Africa is on the rise, and experts debate whether legalizing trade in their horns could help save the animals.
The capital flight coincides with slumping investment and a sharp deterioration in business confidence.
In 2013, Ukraine was the world’s fourth-largest corn exporter and sixth-largest wheat exporter.
The government has pledged to take 432 of its state-owned enterprises public; here are four of the biggest IPOs to come.
Inadequate U.S. bank regulations helped trigger the 2008 global financial crisis - the free world's biggest crisis since the Great Depression.
Armed pro-Moscow protesters Tuesday were still occupying Ukrainian government buildings in two cities in the largely Russian-speaking east.
International groups have asked Ethiopian officials to examine the plant's environmental impact, but to-date a report has not been produced.