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EU agrees to work more closely with NATO

By JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG - Associated Press

Pro-Russian activists set their flags over the entrance to the regional administration building in Donetsk, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 8, 2014. In the city protesters dug in for their third day at the 11-story regional administration headquarters they captured on Sunday and began to declare their own parallel government. Ukrainian authorities on Tuesday reasserted control over an administration building in the country&#8217;s second-largest city of Kharkiv, 250 Km ( 155 miles) north of Donetsk, which had been seized by pro-Russian protesters, and authorities detained some dozens. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

LYONS: Russian bear eats Obama’s lunch on Ukraine

By James A. Lyons

Pro-Russian activists with Russian national flags storm the Ukrainian regional office of the Security Service in Luhansk, Ukraine, Sunday, April 6, 2014. In Luhansk, 30 kilometers (20 miles) west of the Russian border, hundreds of people surrounded the local headquarters of the security service and later scaled the facade to plant a Russian flag on the roof. (AP Photo/Igor Golovniov)

Pro-Russians call east Ukraine region independent

By PETER LEONARD - Associated Press

UK asks EU to prepare more sanctions options

By ELENA BECATOROS and NATALIYA VASILEVA - Associated Press

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Congress to pass aid Ukraine, sanction Russia

By DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

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SIMES and SAUNDERS: Obama’s Crimea blunder

By Dimitri Simes and Paul Saunders

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, shakes hands with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov before the start of their meeting at the Russian Ambassador's residence about the situation in Ukraine, in Paris Sunday March 30, 2014. Kerry traveled to Paris for a last minute meeting with Lavrov. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

U.S., Russia offer differing solutions on Ukraine

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrives in Paris, on Saturday March 29, 2014. After leaving Saudi Arabia the secretary canceled a return to Washington in order to travel to Paris for a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov about the situation in Ukraine. The meeting was arranged during a refueling stop in Ireland en route to Paris. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

US, Russia talks fail to end Ukraine deadlock

By MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

U.S. President Barack Obama, left, Pakistan's Prime Minister Mohammad Nawaz Sharif, center, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, attend the opening session of the Nuclear Summit in The Hague, the Netherlands, on Monday, March 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Yves Herman, POOL)

Obama’s Russia sanctions unlikely to make impact, experts say

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a Council of Physical Fitness and Sports in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Monday, March 24, 2014. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)

GRAY: U.S. has a menu of energy options to punish Russia

By C. Boyden Gray

Russian Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev acknowledged the dire situation Monday by telling reporters that growth in the first quarter likely will clock in at "around zero." (Associated Press)

Russia’s price to pay: Investor exodus not sanctions threatens country

By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama, center rear, gathered with G7 world leaders clockwise from center left, European Council president Herman Van Rompuy, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, French President Francois Hollande, British Prime Minister David Cameron, US President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso, in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday March 24, 2014, in the sidelines of the Nuclear security Summit. (AP Photo/Jerry Lampen, POOL)

Western nations, Japan move to isolate Russia as G-8 becomes G-7

By Julie Pace - Associated Press

Diane Francis, author of Merger of the Century, envisions a full-on economic and political merger in which Canada's provinces would become 13 states in the U.S. Quebec would become a commonwealth like Puerto Rico.

Author Diane Francis touts merger between the United States and Canada

By Meghan Drake - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 17. 2014 photo, President Barack Obama speaks about Ukraine in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington. Obama travels across the Atlantic next week and will seek a cohesive stance from European leaders unnerved by Russia's annexation of the Crimean Peninsula. (AP Photo/ Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama’s Europe ties get new test in Russia dispute

By JULIE PACE - Associated Press

Visiting United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, left, shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting in Moscow's Kremlin, Russia, Thursday, March 20, 2014. (AP Photo/ Sergei Ilnitsky, pool)

Putin: No need for further retaliation against U.S.

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

A soldier in an unmarked uniform stands guard at APC outside the Ukrainian Military Prosecutor's Office in Simferopol, Crimea, Thursday, March 20, 2014. The lower house of Russian parliament voted Thursday to make Crimea a part of Russia following Sunday’s Crimean referendum in which its residents overwhelmingly backed breaking off from Ukraine and joining Russia. (AP Photo/Maxin Vetrov)

Putin formally gets Crimea; Ukraine, EU sign deal

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

Endocyte surges on news for cancer drug

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** FILE ** In this March 17, 2014, file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Analysis: Putin tests Obama’s foreign policy

By JULIE PACE - Associated Press

Ukrainian air force officers walk with their bags at the Belbek airbase, outside Sevastopol, Crimea, on Thursday, March 20, 2014. With thousands of Ukrainian soldiers and sailors trapped on military bases, surrounded by heavily armed Russian forces and pro-Russia militia, the Kiev government said it was drawing up plans to evacuate its outnumbered troops from Crimea back to the mainland and would seek U.N. support to turn the peninsula into a demilitarized zone. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Pro-Russian crowds seize 3 Ukrainian warships

By JIM HEINTZ and DAVID RISING - Associated Press