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Reuters: Crimea votes to join Russia as EU leaders push Ukraine diplomacy

By Reuters.
Russian military troops in Crimea, March 2014
Photo by Anastasia Vlasova

(Reuters) - Crimea's parliament voted to join Russia on Thursday and its Moscow-backed government set a referendum within 10 days on the decision in a dramatic escalation of the crisis over the Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula.

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