RUSSIA

Despite its membership to the European Union, Lithuania imports 75 percent of its electricity from Russia.

The incident is likely to heighten tensions between the two countries, which are at odds over Syria and the Turkish shooting down of a Russian military jet last month.

Authorities believe that a wiring malfunction could have caused the tragedy that killed at 21 people and injured nearly two dozen.

President Xi Jinping skipped the main event that marked the alleged killing of 300,000 Chinese people by Japanese troops in 1937.

Dozens were killed or wounded in Homs just days after rebels pulled out of the city in central Syria under a truce. ISIS claimed responsibility.

The groups called for a resignation of Syrian President Bashar Assad, whom Russia has supported.

The Ukrainian Parliament's latest fistfight broke out Friday as the country's prime minister faces increased pressure to step down.

German authorities have said the Paris terror attack suspect could be in Morocco.

The aircraft was not immediately identified, but the incident follows Russian encroachments on several neighbors' territories.

Russian President Vladimir Putin also ordered the country's armed forces to act in an "extremely tough way" in Syria to protect Russian forces fighting against ISIS.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once considered one of the richest men in Russia, spent a decade in jail on tax fraud and embezzlement charges.

Adam Szubin, a senior U.S. Treasury official, said Thursday that ISIS also looted between $500 million and $1 billion from bank vaults captured in Iraq and Syria.

Iran has been fighting to help bolster Syrian President Bashar Assad, but less than 1,000 of its soldiers still remain in the fight, Western officials said.

Since Russia annexed Crimea in March 2014, Moscow has resumed large scale ballistic missile tests and its adversarial relationship with the NATO-led West.

The Pentagon's proposal would ensure a U.S. military presence in some of the world's most volatile regions for the foreseeable future.

The incident comes just weeks after Russia allegedly violated Turkish airspace near the Syrian border. This is also not the first time the Russian military has breached Georgian skies.

Russian President Vladimir Putin also noted that recent airstrikes had damaged the Islamic State group's weapons stores and oil infrastructure.

On Thursday, Russia said that Turkish allegations of ethnic cleansing in Syria "sound like a display of impotent rage."

The chief of staff for Oslo police told Reuters that there were no specific threats the police were aware of in Norway.

Italy wants to first formally discuss renewed sanctions against Russia before it allows the EU to extend the legislation.

Russia holds $3 billion in Ukrainian bonds and Kiev is refusing to pay it back.