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With over half the votes counted, 95.5 percent had chosen the option of annexation by Moscow.

Kiev and the West call that scenario "illegitimate."

As China makes a push for westward development, Chengdu is a hot spot for foreign investment.

Latest attack comes after a killing in Donetsk; 2,000 pro-Russian protesters attack a pro-Ukraine group.

Prejudice against Muslims students is partly linked to teachers’ and other students’ fears of terrorism and violence.

Malaysia's prime minister told the media that the search for the missing plane has entered a new phase.

India is now leading a search for the missing plane in the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean.

The Obama administration announced that health care providers must deliver equal spousal benefits, starting in 2015.

Turkey could enter into the Syrian civil war to protect an important shrine.

Russian sources reported Friday that a U.S. drone had been taken down by "self-defense forces" in Crimea. The U.S. says it never happened.

The second indictment for the same crime occurred two days after a U.S. District Judge dismissed the first one.

Following flap over LGBT exclusion, Sam Adams beer isn’t the only local company distancing itself from Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade.

Almost 165 years after the first Crimean War, a new conflict could occur on the Black Sea peninsula. What would it look like if it happened?

Thanks to a certain TV show, consumers once a year feel more powerful than big corporations.

Thirteen years after 9/11, a terrorist is on trial in New York for making threats against Americans and recruiting Al Qaeda bombers.

The City of Light is enjoying an early spring, but the weather is pushing air pollution to the ground.

Google has added a protection layer to its searches in China. But will it be enough to prevent the government (and hackers) from accessing them?

Protesters and riot police clashed in Venezuela again this week.

Peace between India and Pakistan remains elusive; the two countries have already fought four wars since 1947.

The EU and the US have threatened to impose visa bans on at least 13 prominent Russian politicians and businessmen.

The cap is required by a deal over its nuclear program with six global powers: U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Russia and China.

Three years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the U.S. government will allow BP to bid for contracts again.

Princess Diana had separated from Prince Charles in 1992 and was killed in a car crash in 1997, a year after the couple's divorce.

About 31 people were killed earlier this month at the Kunming train station by eight attackers with knives.

The fact that the plane vanished from civilian radar suggests its onboard communication systems were manually switched off.

In 1998, a Turkish family borrowed $3 billion to create a telecom firm that later went bankrupt.

The clashes have been the most intense since the November 2012 Gaza war, but casualties have been scant.

The prosecutor general of Russia is requesting that the sites be added to a blacklist as tensions rise in Ukraine.

In an unusually robust and emotional speech, German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned of "catastrophe" unless Russia changes course.