The names of people being investigated for playing "an active role" in the downing of flight MH17 will be confirmed by early 2017, Australia's foreign minister said on Sunday.
Syrian regime forces advanced in Aleppo on Sunday after Russia unleashed dozens of air strikes in the battleground northern city overnight, a monitor and an AFP correspondent reported.
Russia is aiming to keep its oil production at near-record levels despite Opec's decision to modestly reduce its output, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said on Thursday.
Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by a missile fired from a launcher brought into Ukraine from Russia and located in a village held by pro-Russian rebels, international prosecutors said on Wednesday.
Jorge Fossati was officially unveiled as Qatar's new coach on Tuesday and insisted that the 2022 host country's "big dream" of reaching the 2018 World Cup finals was still possible.
Residents in rebel-held areas of Syria's Aleppo cowered in their homes on Saturday as relentless missile strikes and barrel bomb attacks pounded the besieged eastern half of the divided city.
Russia has sentenced an elderly decorated space engineer and university instructor to seven years in prison for state treason, an official said Friday.
Warplanes launched some of the heaviest air strikes yet on rebel-held areas of Aleppo on Friday after the Russian-backed Syrian army declared an offensive to fully capture Syria's biggest city.
Eight Russian firefighters were killed as they battled a blaze at a warehouse in eastern Moscow, authorities said on Friday, in the latest deadly fire to hit the capital.
Syrian government troops, supported by Russian air forces, repelled an offensive by militants on the northern fringes of Syria's largest city of Aleppo on Tuesday, killing 40 attackers, RIA news agency quoted Russia's Defence Ministry as saying.
Vladimir Putin cemented his supremacy over Russia's political system when his ruling United Russia party took three quarters of the seats in parliament in a weekend election ...
The ruling United Russia party has 54.2 percent of the vote after 90 percent ballots were counted on Monday in Russia's parliamentary election, data from the election commission showed.
