Separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine reported heavy casualties on Tuesday after a second day of fighting with government forces, as authorities in Kiev vowed to continue the military offensive "until not a single terrorist" was left.
Member states of the European Union on Friday agreed on a plan to control fraudulently labeled horsemeat in the food market.
Horse meat has now been found in some food items collected from a number of Norwegian supermarket chains including Coop, Norwegian media reported on Friday.
President Vladimir Putin has ordered immediate assistance for people living in Russia's Ural Mountains after a meteor exploded over the region on Friday, injuring at least 520.
About 400 people were injured when a meteorite shot across the sky in central Russia on Friday sending fireballs crashing to Earth.
The EU's executive called in Europe's law enforcers on Wednesday and urged that DNA food testing be done in all member states amid a widening scandal over horsemeat-tainted processed food.
A 6.9-magnitude earthquake jolted Sakha in northeastern Russia on Thursday, the US Geological Survey said.
Italy's national statistics institute Istat said on Thursday that the country was in its longest recession in the last 20 years, after it registered a negative growth for the sixth consecutive quarter in the last three months of 2012.
Moscow will join the UN Security Council to work out an adequate international response to the latest nuclear test by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), the Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault on Wednesday said the government will miss the objective of trimming public deficit to 3 percent of the national output in 2013.
At least four people were killed as an An-24 passenger jet made a crash landing on Wednesday in the southeast region of Donetsk in Ukraine, state emergency department said.
French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault on Wednesday said the government will miss the objective of trimming public deficit to 3 percent of the national output in 2013.
The European Union (EU) and the United States (US) had decided to initiate internal procedures to launch negotiations on a free trade agreement (FTA), chief of the European Commission said on Wednesday.
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