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Ukraine's first elected president tells IBTimes in an exclusive interview that he fears the escalating crisis will embroil the Western world in a full-scale war.

Panasonic is compensating employees who relocate to China for exposing them to a hazardous environment.

The arrest took place without incident, Austria's interior ministry said.

U.S.-Ukraine Business Council President Morgan Williams said sanctions against Russia need to be strong and effective.

The Ukraine crisis has affected many business models: here are 10.

The mystery of the missing Malaysian plane continues, amid conflicting reports of its likely fate.

The woman, who was raped on a moving bus by six men, died weeks later in a Singapore hospital.

The FBI has reportedly announced a $250,000 reward for information that may lead to San Diego’s arrest.

The perfectly legal strategy helps companies substantially reduce their tax burden on profits earned in markets around the world.

There have been conflicting reports of the missing plane's last-known location, and confusion has surrounded the search process.

The Indian diplomat, who was accused of visa fraud and mistreating her maid, was arrested on Dec. 12 in New York.

The president is pushing to expand the number of workers who would qualify for overtime pay. The usual sides converge.

Cluster-bomb remnants have been found in South Sudan, but it's hard to determine who is responsible.

James Olivos says he can't begin a five-year prison sentence because he's morbidly obese.

Phillips Young was charged with endangering the welfare of a child.

The Fox News host says Obama's appearance with Zach Galifianakis is unpresidential because Lincoln wouldn't have done the same thing.

Tea has deep meaning to both Modi and to India.

Moldova is nervously watching the fate of Ukraine's autonomous region of Crimea as a sign of Russian encroachment.

3 years after Tunisia sparked the Arab Spring, suspicions arise over its informal street-vendor economy.

What's more, Russia's dependence on crude sales may make it leery of further moves in Ukraine, U.S. officials hope.

An environmental tax bill that China's legislators are reviewing would help combat smog - a chronic problem as the nation modernizes.

Although Thailand is overwhelmingly Buddhist, Muslims dominate the three southern provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat.

Seventy others were injured, at least two critically, in the explosion and collapse at 116th Street and Park Avenue in East Harlem.

In a weak and still recovering global economy, Thailand can't count on external factors to rescue its economy.

What is driving Indonesia’s recent financial market rally? Recovering economic fundamentals or wishful thinking?

GM reportedly admitted last month that it knew of problems with ignition switches but did not move quickly enough to fix them.

The special election, fought over Obamacare, could be a bad sign for Democrats.

The proposed DHS budget cuts immigrant detention beds. House Republicans sent Secretary Johnson back with a message: Enforce the law.

The CIA boss has nominally denied interfering with a Senate investigation on interrogation techniques, but his actual language is murky.