UKRAINE

Sunday's election is aimed at clearing out remaining Yanukovich loyalists.

Ukraine votes for parliament on Sunday. Right-wing extremists say either change comes at the polls, or they will revolt.

EU members pledged 1 billion euros ($1.25 billion) to counter Ebola in West Africa at a summit in Brussels. The U.K.-led funding, pledging 100 million euros.

The EU and Ukraine will discuss a bridging loan to Kiev next week so the country can pay in advance for Russian gas deliveries for the coming months, the German chancellor said.

Rosneft, Russia's largest oil producer has asked for more than 2 trillion rubles from the country's National Wealth Fund.

The incident occurred just days after a mysterious foreign vessel was spotted in Swedish waters.

McDonald's Chief Executive Officer Don Thompson owned up to some corporate image problems on Tuesday after it posted a nearly one-third drop in quarterly profit and warned its global restaurant sales would fall again in October.

They're banned by half the world, but both Ukraine and separatists, to a less degree, used the indiscriminately destructive weapons.

The deal aims to resume Russian gas flows to Ukraine after Moscow turned off the taps in June.

The collision occurred minutes before midnight Moscow time as de Margerie's Dassault Falcon jet was taking off for Paris.

Poland's parliamentary speaker, Radoslaw Sikorski, has been quoted as saying that Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed to Poland's then leader in 2008 that they divide Ukraine between themselves.

Miss Ostland 2014, a beauty contest hosted by a pro-Hitler group on VKontakte, was suspended Sunday.

The missile used by pro-Russian separatists to hit the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was seized from Ukraine's army, says a German report.

Talks on resolving the Ukraine conflict go nowhere as fighting around the Donetsk airport intensifies.

Up to 200 members of Sweden's military are scouring the waters near Stockholm for suspected 'foreign underwater activity'.

Russia cut off gas supply to Ukraine in mid-June following more than two years of dispute on the price.

The credit of Russia's government is hovering just above "junk" status as rich Russians dump the ruble for stronger currencies.

European leaders, at a EU-Asia summit, urged Russia to do more to end constant, deadly violations of a cease-fire in eastern Ukraine.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said that he met Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Asia-Europe summit on Thursday in Milan.

The United States successfully derailed Venezuela's 2006 bid for the Security Council, but stayed quiet this time.

The demonstration was another of the activist group's trademark topless protests.