Pro-Kremlin gunmen kept foreign observers from entering Crimea on Friday as Russia welcomed the prospect of the Ukrainian peninsula joining the country amid the worst East-West crisis since the Cold…

Holed up on their bases, Ukraine's besieged servicemen and the Russians surrounding them in Crimea are locked in a standoff that at times is tense and at others surreal.Almost a…

Britain will not impose sanctions or support military action against Russia, according to a briefing paper that was revealed in error on Monday. The document became public when one of…

The soldiers who took control of Crimea without firing a single shot are likely to be Russian special forces, airborne units, and possibly commandos from the elite Spetsnaz force, London-based…

US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Kiev Tuesday for talks with Ukraine's new interim government, amid an escalating crisis in Crimea. His visit came as the United States…

The US conceded on Sunday that Moscow had “complete operational control of the Crimean peninsula” and announced that the secretary of state, John Kerry, will fly to Kiev in an…

Officials in a Siberian region on Wednesday banned Halloween parties from school classrooms, warning that they foster extremism and encourage children to dabble in a "cult of death". The education…

Some two million pilgrims poured out of the Muslim holy city of Mecca on Sunday to begin the annual hajj, their numbers reduced on fears of the deadly MERS virus.…

North Korea on Saturday issued a fresh warning of an "all-out war," urging the United States to stop military drills and what it described as "nuclear blackmail." In a thinly…

Russians in Siberia were thrown into momentary panic on Friday when the emergencies ministry mistakenly issued a press release reporting 55 people had died from inhaling toxic chlorine gas. Emergency…