| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | Is Crimea Europe's next conflict? | | The world's eyes may have been focused on the breathtakingly fast political changes unfolding in Ukraine's capital Kiev this week, but it is the Crimean peninsula, where dozens of gunmen raised the Russian flag over parliament Thursday, that should now be the primary source of concern for Ukraine's fledgling government and world leaders. |
| Obama: Back off | | U.S. President Barack Obama didn't speak very long at the White House on Friday, but his message was clear: Russia should not use military force to change the fate of Ukraine. |
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