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Brussels - European leaders will meet on Thursday to discuss further sanctions against Russia following its decision to annex Crimea.

Sydney - Australia announced on Thursday that it had spotted two objects possibly related to the search for the missing Malaysian flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean and had sent four aircraft to the area to assess the debris.

Ankara - Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has said his government supports the European Union and NATO's policies regarding Russia's annexation of the Crimean peninsula, after it declared its independence from Ukraine following a referendum.

Kuala Lumpur – There is no evidence Chinese passengers were involved in a hijack or terror attack on the missing MH370, the Chinese ambassador to Malaysia said on Tuesday

Simferopol - The Crimean parliament declared independence from Ukraine on Monday, after official results showed 96.77% of Crimean voters chose to join Russia in Sunday's referendum.

Kuala Lumpur - More countries have been asked to join the hunt for a missing Malaysian jetliner as the search area was expanded across a vast arc of land and ocean, officials said on Sunday.

Beijing - US officials say the search area for a Malaysia Airlines plane with 239 people aboard that has disappeared for almost a week, may expand to the Indian Ocean.

New York - The United Nations continued efforts on multiple fronts to de-escalate tensions in Ukraine, with a senior human rights official holding meetings in the capital, Kiev.

Kuala Lumpur - The international search for a missing Malaysia Airlines plane has entered the fifth day, as Malaysia's air force chief on Wednesday denied reports that radar had detected the plane over the Straits of Malacca.

Beijing - The international community has strengthened rescue and search forces for the missing Malaysian plane on Tuesday, but no substantive clues have been found so far.