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

The sale collapsed due to its large size and as "some conditions were not met," Hyundai Motor said in a statement.

Year-on-year retail spending was 1.0 percent higher this December than a year ago, the weakest December growth since 2008.

Exports rose 9.7 percent from a year earlier in dollar-denominated terms, while imports dropped for a second month in a row by 2.4 percent.

Goldman slashed its three-month forecasts for Brent to $42 a barrel from $80.

A grand jury in the Bronx indicted Jason Polanco, 24, and Joshua Kemp, 28, in the shooting of Officers Andrew Dossi and Aliro Pellarano.

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

Bulgarian police arrested Fritz-Joly Joachin, 29, Jan. 1 at a border checkpoint when he tried to cross into Turkey.

Roche said it is looking for the deal to help it develop combination therapies and more accurately identify cancer patients.

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

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is in the early stages of drafting new rules for transfer agents.

South Korean President Park Geun-hye, however, maintained the country still needed an anti-North security law.

Pay data is politically and economically sensitive as Britain heads towards a general election in May.

The National Security Law prohibits South Koreans from publicly praising the North Korean regime.

A self-made millionaire, Lai is a long-time supporter of Hong Kong's democracy movement.

It is still not clear if Qazzaz, an Egyptian citizen, will be allowed to leave the country for Canada, where he holds permanent residence.

On ABC's "This Week" Attorney General Eric Holder said countries cannot hope to prevent the possibility of terrorism alone.

Most air strikes in Syria again targeted Kobani.

The world's 20 highest-grossing films in 2014 were dominated by superheroes, science fiction, fantasy and a vindictive fairy.

The attack led to one of the deadliest single battles for Kurdish forces since last year.

The arrests were made at an anti-war group's protest to mark the 14th anniversary of the opening of the Guantanamo Bay prison.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's draft budget for the coming fiscal year reportedly totals 96.3 trillion yen ($813 billion).

Hundreds of people in southern Afghanistan rallied to support the Paris attackers for punishing "those who had mocked the Prophet".

The automaker plans to export a Chinese-made midsize sedan this year to the United States, and is considering building a US factory.

The suspect in the shootings, John Lee, 29, of Moscow, Idaho, was arrested after a high-speed chase with police.

Search and rescue teams believe that a sonar scan has detected the fuselage of the crashed airliner, which was carrying 162 people when it went down.

Hayat Boumeddiene, who was the partner of one of the attackers, is believed to be in Syria, according to sources cited by Reuters.

The foreign ministers of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine will meet in Berlin on Monday to discuss the situation.

New England survived a scare against Baltimore to reach the AFC title game.