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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Army troops are arriving in Poland to begin what will be a series of military exercises in four countries across Eastern Europe in a move to bolster allies in the wake of Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula last month...

DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's acting president is ordering security forces to resume operations in the country's east, and the Defense Ministry says a military aircraft was struck by gunfire over one of the tensest cities in the region...

DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's fledgling government says Russia is stirring up unrest. Pro-Moscow activists barricaded inside government buildings in eastern Ukraine proclaimed their regions independent today and called for a referendum on seceding from Ukraine...

Australia is deploying a modified Boeing 737 to act as a flying air traffic controller over the Indian Ocean to act as air traffic control, aiding in the search for a missing Malaysian plane.

Commentary in China's state-run media is urging people to react "rationally" to the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, after days of protests.

Residents on a front-line South Korean island say they've been evacuated to shelters following an exchange of artillery fire between North and South Korea.

A Vietnamese official says searchers on ships worked throughout the night but could not find a rectangle object spotted Sunday afternoon that was thought to be one of the doors of a missing Boeing 777.

A recent decision by the Casper College board of Trustees to expand the college's smoking policy to include a ban on e-cigarettes, or vaporizers, is spurring conversation about the practice.

A huge dinosaur skeleton found in the United States in 2009 is being auctioned in Britain.

Sept. 11 victims' loved ones will gather at ground zero to commemorate the attacks' anniversary with the reading of names, moments of silence and serene music that have become tradition.