In This EditionVoting gets underway in Ukraine's Crimea region in a contentious referendum on whether to split off and seek annexation by Russia.

Russia vetoes a UN resolution that declares Crimea's referendum illegal in the worst East-West crisis since the Cold War.

And Malaysia Airlines has stopped informing relatives of the passengers on the missing plane about the progress of the investigation after it became a criminal probe.

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