UKRAINE

According to European monitors stationed in the Donetsk region, "intense shelling" using large-caliber artillery was seen on Sunday.

Nursultan Nazarbayev was set to renew his 26-year grip on power on Sunday, offering social stability in return for what rights groups call a suppression of opposition.

As workers build a lasting confinement structure at the defunct power plant, former residents return to pay their respects to the dead.

The Russian Defense Ministry said U.S. troops were training Ukrainian forces in the conflict zone in eastern Ukraine, but the Pentagon flatly denied it, accusing Moscow of a "ridiculous attempt" to obscure its own activity in the region.

France may pay back the money Russia paid for the Mistral ships that haven't been delivered.

An upcoming pop star has claimed that she's suffering from emotional distress because Mila Kunis stole a chicken from her 25 years ago.

U.S. officials said Russia had built up troops on the border, and deployed air defense systems to forbidden areas.

The founder of the group, Dmitry Demushkin, reportedly was arrested for attending a "Hitler birthday party" on Monday.

The American A-10 and Romania's Soviet-built MiG-21 jet were built to fight each other. Now they're training together to fend off Russians.

As the ceasefire is broken anew, a bipartisan group asks the U.S. president again to send lethal aid to Ukraine.

The Raytheon-built missile defense system is often heralded as the world's best.

The money is for "development financing," but President Nicolás Maduro offered no other details on conditions for the funds.

Western sanctions following annexation of the peninsula cost his country $27B last year, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said.

300 members of the Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade is expected to train 900 guardsmen in three rotations over six months.

"Clinton Cash," to be released on May 5, will reportedly reveal details of financial transactions that "put millions" in the Clintons' pockets.

The Russian president said he fears giving lethal weapons to Ukraine will just lead to a higher death toll and undermine the Minsk II agreement.

Even so, Moscow and Athens are at odds with the rest of Europe, and they would greatly benefit from a profitable natural-gas pipeline deal.

The leader of the Donetsk People's Republic says there was a 90 percent chance of war between his forces and Kiev.

Russia's two most prominent opposition parties will unite for regional elections later this year and State Duma elections in 2016.

After Ukraine's Parliament bans Nazi and Russian imagery, a pro-Russian group threatens to kill 5 'Ukrops' for every item lost.

The 173rd Airborne Brigade will teach Ukrainian troops about first aid, tactics and how to defend against artillery and mortar strikes.