The European Commission said on Sunday it was ready to conclude a trade deal with Ukraine once a new government was formed, and that it believed such a deal was in both parties' interests and would be signed.
The West has won the first round in the fight with Russia over Ukraine, but Moscow still has cards to play and Kiev's new government will have to seek balance among the powers, observers said.
After 13 years on the lam, the world's most powerful drug kingpin was captured in a Mexican beach city, frogmarched by marines and flown to prison, abruptly ending his blood-stained reign.
"I do not know how I have come to live this long," Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said a month ahead of his 90th birthday, which he celebrated on Friday.
Books about cats, excrement and trout are among the contenders for the Oddest Book Title of the Year award in Britain.
Iran is sticking to a six-month nuclear freeze agreed to under a November interim deal with world powers, the UN atomic agency said in a new report on Thursday, a month after the agreement came into force.
China characterized the Iran nuclear talks in Vienna as positive and constructive on Friday, and said the good outcome bodes well for the next phase, the negotiation of a comprehensive agreement.
Thai farmers, angry about not being paid under a rice subsidy program, called off a tractor drive to Bangkok's main airport on Friday after an assurance they would get their money in a bit of welcome news for Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.
Ukrainian opposition leaders signed an EU-mediated peace deal with President Viktor Yanukovych on Friday, aiming to end a violent standoff that has left dozens dead and opening the way for an early presidential election this year.
Ambassador objects to comments by White House official at seminar
An Egyptian court is to try Al-Jazeera journalists on Thursday for allegedly supporting the Muslim Brotherhood, in a case that has sparked accusations of censorship by the military-installed government.
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