Europe
Crimea declares independence from Ukraine, applies to join Russia
Crimea\'s parliament has formally declared independence from Ukraine and asked to join the Russian Federation.Crimea votes on leaving Ukraine for Russia
Crimeans voted in a referendum on Sunday on whether to break away from Ukraine and join Russia, with Kiev accusing Moscow of ...Ukraine braces for Crimea breakaway vote
The U.N. Security Council will vote Saturday on a U.S.-drafted resolution urging countries not to recognize the results of an upcoming Crimean ...France sentences Rwandan ex-soldier for genocide role
A court in France has delivered the country\'s first ever conviction for genocide, sentencing a former Rwandan soldier to 25 years in ...Crimea talks fail to find US-Russian solution
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called talks Friday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov "constructive and frank" but said that Russia ...Ousted Libyan PM flees to Europe despite travel ban
Libya\'s former Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has left the country despite a travel ban, reports say.British-Swedish journalist shot dead in Afghanistan
A Swedish journalist was shot dead Tuesday in a brazen daytime attack on a street in the Afghan capital.NATO jets to monitor Ukraine border
NATO says it is deploying reconnaissance aircraft along the borders of member states Poland and Romania, to monitor the crisis in nearby ...Two Russian cosmonauts, U.S. astronaut head back to Earth
An American astronaut and the two Russian cosmonauts who carried a Sochi Olympic torch into open space are on their way back ...EU: No guarantee on nuclear deal
European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton says there is "no guarantee" that nuclear negotiations between Iran and the West will lead ...




