On the last day of a Vilnius summit, Ukraine has confirmed it will delay signing its landmark trade agreement with the EU, saying the West failed to offer enough immediate economic benefits.

After years of planning the Eastern Partnership Summit and long hours of trade talks in the Lithuanian capital, the results at the summit were split: Ukraine and Armenia did not join, while Moldova, and Georgia have signed a trade Association Agreement with the EU on Friday, November 29.

Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovich said he will reconsider negotiations only after Europe offers more attractive "economic aid to Ukraine."

Ukraine faces debt repayments of more than $60 billion, or a third of the country's GDP, by July 2015, according to July Central Bank Data.

Meanwhile, the EU offered to compensate Ukraine to the tune of 1 billion euros for various losses that would result from a stricter trade regime by Russia that would follow the signing.

Ukraine needs more time to get prepared "to minimalize any negative effects in the initial period, which will definitely be felt by vulnerable parts of Ukrainian society," Yanukovych said, Interfax reported.

Dalia Grybauskaite, President of Lithuania, insisted the trade agreement terms won't be changed.

"The EU isn't going to bargain further. All the key terms are known. There will be no new ones," Grybauskaite, who presided over Friday's conference, said.

"I think that today's [Friday] Ukrainian leadership is choosing the way which is going nowhere," Grybauskaite added.

Both Moscow and Brussels have said they respect Ukraine's sovereign decision, but that doesn't mean the battle is over for Europe's second-largest country by landmass, with a $176-billion economy and a population of 45 million.

The following presents both roads that Ukraine faces, in facts and numbers.

British officials burned and dumped at sea documents from colonies that were about to become independent in a systematic effort to hide their "dirty" secrets, newly released files showed on Friday.

Under Operation Legacy, officials in Kenya, Uganda, Malaysia, Tanzania, Jamaica and other former British colonial territories were briefed on how to dispose of documents that "might embarrass Her Majesty's Government".

Newly declassified Foreign Office files reveal how the "splendid incinerator" at the Royal Navy base in Singapore was used to destroy lorry loads of files from the region.

Other officials wrote of documents being dumped "in deep and current-free water at the maximum practicable distance from shore", according to the documents in the National Archives.

One dispatch from Kenya in 1961 mentions the formation of a committee dealing with "'dirty' aspects of protective security" which would "clean" Kenyan intelligence files, according to The Times newspaper.

Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has rejected protesters' demands that she step down, amid ongoing clashes in Bangkok.

Ms Yingluck said the demands were not possible under the constitution, but that she remained open to talks.

More clashes broke out on Monday as protesters tried to storm the prime minister's office, Government House.

Four people have died in Thailand's worst political turmoil since the 2010 rallies that ended in violence.

"Anything I can do to make people happy, I am willing to do... but as prime minister, what I can do must be under the constitution," Ms Yingluck said in a televised address.

Anti-government demonstrators have been calling on Ms Yingluck to step down, with protest leader and former opposition politician Suthep Thaugsuban saying on Sunday that Ms Yingluck should resign within the next "two days".

Akron, Ohio - An Amish girl fighting leukemia recently fled the United States with her parents to escape the forced administration of chemotherapy, despite an earlier ruling by an Ohio judge supporting her family's decision to halt conventional treatment.

An appeals court issued a ruling granting an attorney for Akron Children's Hospital, Maria Schimer, temporary guardianship over 11-year-old Sarah Hershberger after she begged her parents to discontinue the toxic drugs being administered to fight cancer.

"Parental rights, even if based upon firm belief and honest convictions can be limited in order to protect the 'best interests' of the child," the court ruled.

"We've seen how sick [chemotherapy] makes her," the girl's father, Andy Hershberger, said before the appeals court handed down its decision on October 1st. "She would have more suffering doing chemo than not."

"Sarah says her doctor should be put in jail," wrote Judge John Lohn in the original ruling. "Even if the treatments are successful, there is a very good chance Sarah will become infertile and have other serious health risks for the rest of her life."

Sarah is battling Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL), a malignancy of the blood and bone marrow, which is sometimes treated systemically with a combination of powerful toxic drugs. Among these agents is Cytoxan, a derivative of the chemical weapon mustard gas, which was used extensively to shell entrenched troops during World War I and purportedly used by the Saddam Hussein regime against masses of Iranian soldiers during the First Persian Gulf War.

Cytoxan treatments are designed to damage the DNA of cancerous cells. It also destroys healthy, fast-growing tissues in the mouth, gastrointestinal tract, reproductive system, hair follicles and blood stream. It has a marked effect on the body's immune system, stripping away patients' natural defenses against life-threatening infections. The drug can even induce a secondary leukemia.

The greatest danger to Israel is not the putative Iranian nuclear bomb. The greatest danger is the stupidity of our leaders.

This is not a uniquely Israeli phenomenon. A great many of the world's leaders are plain stupid, and always have been. Enough to look at what happened in Europe in July 1914, when an incredible accumulation of stupid politicians and incompetent generals plunged humanity into World War I.

But lately, Binyamin Netanyahu and almost the entire Israeli political establishment have achieved a new record in foolishness.

Let us start from the end.

Iran is the great victor. It has been warmly welcomed back into the family of civilized nations. Its currency, the rial, is jumping. Its prestige and influence in the region has become paramount. Its enemies in the Muslim world, Saudi Arabia and its gulf satellites, have been humiliated. Any military strike against it by anyone, including Israel, has become unthinkable.

The image of Iran as a nation of crazy ayatollahs, fostered by Netanyahu and Ahmadinejad, has disappeared. Iran now looks like a responsible country, led by sober and shrewd leaders.

Israel is the great loser. It has maneuvered itself into a position of total isolation. Its demands have been ignored, its traditional friends have distanced themselves. But above everything else, its relations with the US have been seriously damaged.

What Netanyahu and Co. are doing is almost unbelievable. Sitting on a very high branch, they are diligently sawing through it.

Jesse Ventura talks running for U.S. President independently, may run as George Washington Independent ending 2 party dominance in United States.

A man of many titles, Jesse Ventura is a politician, actor, author, US navy veteran and a former professional wrestler. He does not associate himself with either side of the political establishment.

Six Muslim 'Radicalizers' were targeted

There are new revelations about the National Security Agency spying tactics - this time about how the NSA targeted the personal habits of alleged Muslim 'radicalizers', Huff Post reported.

According to a top-secret document leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the NSA has been gathering records of online sexual activity and evidence of visits to porn sites as part of its plan to discredit the reputation of people the agency deems suspected terrorists.

The document, dated October 3, 2012, identifies six targets, all Muslims, as examples of how personal vulnerabilities can be learned through electronic surveillance and then exploited to harm a target's credibility.

Among the vulnerabilities listed by the NSA that can be exploited are "viewing sexually explicit material online" and "using sexually explicit persuasive language when communicating with inexperienced young girls."

Judges have thrown out a case that accused the partner of President François Hollande of misusing public funds.

It was brought by the Casino supermarket heir Xavier Kemlin, who claimed that,
because there was no legal link between Valérie Trierweiler, who is
neither married, nor pacsed with the president, she had no legal right to benefits that come with the position of France's First Lady.

Mr. Kemlin filed his case in April, but was only heard on November 13, by the Doyen des Juges d'Instruction at the Tribunal de Grande Instance in Paris. Yesterday the judge refused to accept the case. "She cannot therefore be considered first lady, let alone housed, fed and looked after by six full time employees," he said.

A Facebook page backing his case received more than 9,000 likes.

Thousands of demonstrators chanting 'Revolution!' flocked into 'Maidan' square in Kiev on Sunday despite a court-imposed ban on rallies. The protesters reportedly took several government buildings.

Chanting protesters displaced metal barriers that were installed by police on Independence Square, also known as Maidan (Ukrainian for "square"), as more are expected to flock into the capital from the regions. Ukrainian media said that some 700,000 people have gathered, calling for the Ukrainian government and the president to resign over rejecting EU association earlier this week.

The Kiev City State Administration has been vandalized with a sign saying "Revolution Headquarters."

The raging crowd, which split into several columns, also stormed the Mayor's offices, breaking windows and opening the doors from the inside, Itar-Tass reports, citing local media. The protesters set up what they described as the temporary headquarters of the united opposition. The Trade Union building near 'Maidan' square has also been taken by the 'provocateurs' bearing emblems of the opposition parties. Other reports claim that the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers building was stormed.

The decision by the Central Bank of China to no longer accumulate foreign exchange reserves in dollar has infuriated the United States, an analyst says.

Finian Cunningham made the remark in a Sunday column for Press TV amid escalation of tensions between US and China over Beijing's enforcement of an Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ).

"The escalation of military tensions between Washington and Beijing in the East China Sea is superficially over China's unilateral declaration of an air defense zone. But the real reason for Washington's ire is the recent Chinese announcement that it is planning to reduce its holdings of the US dollar," he wrote.

Cunningham said China "move to offload some of its 3.5 trillion in US dollar reserves" poses "a mortal threat to the American petrodollar and the entire American economy."

"China - the second biggest economy in the world and a top importer of oil - has or is seeking oil trading arrangements with its major suppliers, including Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Venezuela, which will involve the exchange of national currencies," he wrote, warning that the development threatens "the petrodollar and its global reserve status."