India has signed a $5 billion deal to buy a Russian S-400 air defense system despite a looming threat of U.S. sanctions on countries that trade with Russia’s defense and intelligence sectors.

A German court has ruled that a man serving a life sentence for killing an eating an acquaintance in a case that appalled the country can’t be released early.

The Latest on the earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia (all times local):

The Financial Times says Hong Kong’s government has refused to renew the work visa of its Asia news editor, in what human rights activists say shows the human rights situation in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory is deteriorating.

The Latest on the awarding of the Nobel Prizes (all times local):

Hundreds of Muslim survivors in the Indonesian city of Palu gathered at shattered mosques for Friday prayers, seeking strength to rebuild their lives a week after a powerful earthquake and tsunami killed more than 1,500 people.

Russian authorities say an imprisoned Ukrainian filmmaker has stopped a hunger strike that lasted 144 days.

Japan has announced it won’t send a warship to an international fleet review hosted by South Korea next week after Seoul requested the removal of the Japanese navy’s 'rising sun' flag.

Saturday’s parliamentary election in Latvia — a Baltic member of the European Union and NATO — should see a political party catering to the country’s ethnic Russian minority win most votes but it remains unclear if it can find coalition partners to put it into power.

The International Atomic Energy Agency says it will test seawater, marine sediment and fish around Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant this month.