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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, sits next to US Ambassador to OSCE Michael Carpenter during a meeting with North Macedonia's Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani at the foreign ministry building in Skopje, North Macedonia, on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023. Secretary Blinken is on a brief visit to Skopje, North Macedonia, to attend the OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) meeting. (Saul Loeb/Pool via AP)

Top diplomats meet in North Macedonia for OSCE but some boycott Lavrov’s expected attendance

By Konstantin Testorides - Associated Press

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks during a joint press conference with Venezuela's Foreign Minister Yvan Gil Pinto in Moscow, Russia, on Nov. 16, 2023. Lavrov says he plans to travel to NATO member North Macedonia later this week to attend a conference of a top trans-Atlantic security and rights group, a trip that would mark his first visit to a NATO country since Moscow sent troops to Ukraine. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool, File)

Top diplomats of Baltics and Ukraine to boycott OSCE talks over Russian foreign minister’s presence

By Konstantin Testorides - Associated Press

Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Zbigniew Rau, center, delivers a closing speech during a high-level meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Lodz, Poland, Friday, Dec. 2, 2022. OSCE, a security organization born in the Cold War to maintain peace in Europe, ended a high-level meeting Friday without a final resolution, underlining the existential crisis it is facing amid Russia's war against Ukraine. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)

European security org faces existential crisis at meeting

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

Foreign Ministers and other representatives attend a high-level meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Lodz, Poland, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022. The OSCE is Europe's largest security organization, one founded to maintain peace and stability on the continent. Russia's war against Ukraine is among the greatest challenges the body has faced in its nearly half century of existence. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)

Security meeting overshadowed by Russia’s war, ban on Lavrov

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

Albania's Socialist Party Leader Edi Rama reacts as he delivers his speech during a political rally in Albania's capital Tirana on Thursday, April 22, 2021. Albania holds parliamentary elections on upcoming Sunday amid the virus pandemic and a bitter political rivalry between the country's two largest political parties but that will serve as a key milestone in the country's next step toward European Union membership. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Albania heads to polls after a bitter political fight

By LLAZAR SEMINI - Associated Press

Election observer says no evidence for Trump’s fraud claims

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FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2004, file photo, parliamentarians Goran Lennmarker, right, of Sweden and Stavros Evagorow, of Cyprus, observe the American voting process as voters cast their ballots at Robbinsdale City Hall in Robbinsdale, Minn. The two men are members of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Officials said Friday, Sept. 18, 2020, that due to the coronavirus pandemic, the security organization had drastically scaled back plans to send up to 500 observers to the U.S. to monitor the Nov. 3 presidential election, and now will deploy just 30. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)

Coronavirus pandemic shrinks Europe’s monitoring of US vote

By WILLIAM J. KOLE - Associated Press

People gesture during a protest at the Independence Square in Minsk, Belarus, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. Police in Belarus have dispersed protesters who gathered on the capital's central square, detaining dozens. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

EU firms up Belarus blacklist as OSCE offers to mediate

By LORNE COOK and DAVID RISING - Associated Press

Albanian parties reach consensus on electoral reform

By LLAZAR SEMINI - Associated Press

A relative holds photo of a soldier killed defending Donetsk airport in 2014-15 in a war conflict with Russia-backed separatists during a commemorating ceremony in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Jan. 20, 2019. Ukraine has asked the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to expand its monitoring mission in the country, Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko said Monday after a meeting with the organization's chairman. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Ukraine and separatists to pull back troops from a new area

By YURAS KARMANAU - Associated Press

OSCE Chairperson in Office, Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama, left, and Ukrainian Minister for Foreign Affairs Vadym Prystayko attend a news conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Jan. 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukraine asks OSCE to expand its monitoring mission

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OSCE confirms massive human rights violations in Chechnya

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The Latest: International group pulls Montana observers

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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, gestures while delivering a speech during a rally of supporters a day after the referendum, outside the Presidential Palace, in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, April 17, 2017. Turkey's main opposition party urged the country's electoral board Monday to cancel the results of a landmark referendum that granted sweeping new powers to Erdogan, citing what it called substantial voting irregularities. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

The Latest: Turkish body urges state of emergency extension

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Fighting has continued in eastern Ukraine despite a September cease-fire agreement forged with Russia. (Associated Press)

Ukraine: Security deteriorating in rebel-held east

By Peter Leonard - Associated Press

Fighting has continued in eastern Ukraine despite a September cease-fire agreement forged with Russia. (Associated Press)

Russia pushes into Ukraine, prompting Obama rebuke but no new sanctions

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Pro-Russian insurgents with the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic man a checkpoint by the Karl Marx coal mine seen in the background near Korsun, a small town about 30 km north-east from Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, May 13, 2014. The words on the wall of barricades read &quot; No fascism&quot;. The Donetsk People's Republic has proclaimed independence from Ukraine after a contentious autonomy referendum Sunday that has been rejected by the government and the international community. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Ukraine launches talks but its foes are missing

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA and YURAS KARMANAU - Associated Press

Ukraine: 6 soldiers ambushed, killed in the east

By Nataliya Vasilyeva - Associated Press

Members of election committee count ballots after voting closed at a polling station in Donetsk, Ukraine, Sunday, May 11, 2014. Voters in two insurgent Ukrainian regions cast ballots Sunday on whether to declare their areas sovereign republics, a move denounced by the central government and likely to deepen the turmoil in the largely Russian-speaking east. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Kremlin seeks talks for Ukraine, not annexation

By Peter Leonard and Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

56-nation Internet review shows wide differences

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press