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Militants defy Ukrainian site occupation deadline
SLOVYANSK, Ukraine — A deadline set by the Ukrainian government for pro-Russian militants in the country’s east to vacate occupied buildings passed Monday without signs of an effort to enforce it.
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Putin is given cool reception at EU headquarters
BRUSSELS — President Vladimir Putin for years trumpeted Russia’s grand ambitions for improved relations with the European Union.
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11th-hour Cyprus bailout incites turmoil in Europe
BRUSSELS — The plan to rescue the tiny European country of Cyprus, assembled in overnight talks in Brussels, was itself the product of European dysfunction and has left financial regulators, German politicians, panicked Cypriot leaders and a disgruntled Kremlin thrashing out a bailout package that left virtually all the parties outraged.