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.
At least 133 people have died this month due to freezing temperatures although the recent cold spell has ended, local media reported Saturday.
An 11-year old boy from the Norwegian county of Telemark has died of a swine virus infection, the Norwegian-language newspaper Aftenposten reported on Friday.
Russia will start to build two new early warning radar stations in 2013, Deputy Defense Minister Oleg Ostapenko said Thursday.
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said the worst of Europe's debt crisis seemed to be over, showing his optimism about the German economy in the coming year
French Electricite de France (EDF) on Thursday said it considered that the fears of technology transfer to Chinese partners expected to develop a new type of nuclear reactor "unfounded."
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he saw no reason not to sign a bill into law that would ban Americans adopting Russian children and promised measures to improve care of his country's orphaned youngsters.
The Foreign Ministry on Thursday denied it has made a joint plan with the United States to solve the Syrian crisis.
Moscow sees the Magnitsky Act passed in the United Stated has seriously harmed the Russia-U.S. relations.
At least five people were killed after a military helicopter crashed Tuesday in Ukraine's central Kirovograd region, authorities reported.
Twenty-two passengers were killed after an Antonov An-72 military plane crashed Tuesday near Shymkent, the administrative center of the Southern Kazakhstan region, Interfax news agency reported.
Five Su-34 frontline bombers will be deployed in an air base near the city of Voronezh in southwest Russia.
South German city Munich had an unexpected warm Christmas Eve on Monday, with the highest temperature reaching 20.7 degrees Celsius.
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