The Netherlands and Ukraine have urged a top European court to hear their cases that seek to hold Russia responsible for human rights violations in eastern Ukraine including the 2014 downing of a passenger jet that killed all 298 people on board.

The president is considering deploying troops to Eastern Europe in response to Russia’s aggression amid an increasingly tenuous situation on the Ukraine border.

The leader of Kazakhstan has trumpeted ambitious economic reforms following the worst outburst of public unrest the country of 19 million has seen in three decades.

A closely watched survey shows that business confidence in Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, has picked up unexpectedly after a six-month slide.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says Russia and China oppose “the politicization of sport and demonstrative boycotts” ahead of the Winter Olympics in Beijing.

The world’s biggest and most powerful space telescope has reached its final destination 1 million miles away.

Migrants are once again seeking asylum in Canada after the country lifted a 20-month ban.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry has rejected a British claim that Russia is seeking to replace Ukraine’s government with a pro-Moscow administration and that former Ukrainian lawmaker Yevheniy Murayev is being considered as a potential candidate.

Hungary’s nationalist leader is keen to use the threat of migrants at his country’s southern border to give him an advantage in the upcoming general election.