RUSSIA

European government officials on Thursday approved the nearly $464 million the European Space Agency had requested for the second phase of its ExoMars mission.

The country is hoping to bolster its military preparedness in the region.

Foreign-born athletes are acquiring citizenship in South Korea ahead of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.

Fascism has become the fourth-most-searched word in the history of the Merriam-Websterdictionary’s website and it soon could be declared its word of the year.

Moscow's Federal Security Service said Friday that Ukraine is likely to be behind the attacks scheduled to start next week.

Sweden, viewing Russia as increasingly erratic, is stepping up its defenses.

Russia's military operations in Georgia, Ukraine and Syria have seen nations such as Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia debate increasing military spending.

The missiles would come as close as about 18 miles to Crimean airspace, according to a Ukrainian military spokesperson said.

The Norwegian grandmaster, who turned 26 Wednesday, was crowned winner for the third straight year.

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, in an interview, urged Moscow's Western and regional allies “to abandon attempts of geopolitical engineering in this region.”

Russia will finish 2016 with just 18 launches, behind the U.S.’s 20 rocket launches and China’s 19, according to the Moscow Times.

Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin will face off Wednesday at 2 p.m. EST.

John Brennan said Wednesday that President-elect Donald Trump ending the Iran nuclear deal would be “the height of folly.”

The railway connecting with Turkmenistan could potentially boost Afghanistan's economy with easier transport access to oil-rich countries.

The president of the German foreign intelligence agency believes Russian hackers will turn their attention toward Europe and especially Germany following attempts to impact U.S. elections.

Hosting the Olympics can be an expensive endeavor.

Berlin has moved to decrease the international flow of German weapons in recent years.

The new restrictions largely target coal, Pyongyang’s single-largest export item, and will cut the reclusive East Asian country’s earnings by at least $800 million.

The incident Saturday was the latest in a series of harassments as uncertainty mounts over whether the incoming administration will abide by the Iran nuclear agreement.

In more recent years, Fidel Castro's view on the U.S. started to shift.

Just a quarter of terrorists who return from fighting with ISIS cooperate with German law enforcement officials.