UKRAINE

Over the last five years, U.S. planes have intercepted nearly 50 Russian airplanes near its airspace.

Former president Leonid Kuchma said the two sides had agreed to move artillery 9 miles away from the front line.

Many news organizations have become increasingly reliant on freelance reporters to document conflicts around the world.

Russia is denying reports that Exxon is pulling out of a massive drilling operation there in the face of sanctions.

President Barack Obama is expected to announce the aid package in a meeting with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.

Journalists were investigating reports that Russian soldiers had died fighting in Ukraine. Russia denies that its forces are operating there.

Malaysia Airlines condemned a book about Flight MH370, and also slammed a recent news report about another flight.

Kiev has reportedly been asking for advanced military technology from the U.S., which the Obama administration has so far refused to provide.

The new U.S. program to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station will also accommodate tourists, for a hefty price.

Last week, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had called on Russia to help the U.S. counter the rise of the Islamic State.

NASA's move is aimed at ending U.S. dependence on Russia to fly crews to the International Space Station by 2017.

Verkhovna Rada deputy Vitaliy Zhuravskiy was dragged and thrown into the trash right outside the Ukrainian Parliament.

Lawmakers in Ukraine also signed an agreement that promises deeper economic and political ties with the European Union.

Rapid Trident consists of troops from 15 nations, four of which are non-NATO former Soviet states.

France said it was holding off on selling Russia a warship, but then allowed 200 Russian sailors to start sea trials aboard it.

The EU and the U.S. imposed late last week a fresh set of sanctions against Moscow for its policy on Ukraine.

Ukrainian troops beat back pro-Russian rebels in Donetsk, as Russian nationalists send aid to separatist-controlled Luhansk.

“There is no contract sanctity,” a U.S. official said. Accordingly, companies will have 14 days to wind down activities.

The U.S. Federal Reserve could signal the timing of its first interest-rate increase in more than eight years Wednesday.

The company has been reeling from the loss of two aircraft in separate incidents in 2014, which resulted in hundreds of deaths.

Ukrainian Azov battalion fighters depicted on ZDF TV wearing uniforms with swastikas and Nazi runic symbols.