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UN chief condemns shooting of Ukrainian plane, 49 aboard killed

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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Israel Lawmakers Spar Over Future Borders

A controversial plan by an Israeli political leader to annex parts of the occupied West Bank has triggered an angry debate in Israel, exposing serious divisions in the coalition government over the future of the peace process with the Palestinians.

Former NATO Commander Wesley Clark: Crimea Is Not Kosovo

When NATO jets attacked Serbian military targets in Kosovo in 1999, relations between the West and Russia plummeted to lows not seen since before the Soviet collapse eight years earlier.

Ukrainian Rebel Leader Escapes Injury in Apparent Bomb Blast

Pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Ukraine city of Donetsk say a van used by separatist rebel leader Denis Pushilin exploded Thursday in the central city, injuring at least three bodyguards.