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the discussion probably would focus on how the U.S. and Europe would coordinate harsher punishments -- including sanctions targeting broad sectors of Russia's economy -- should Moscow further provoke tensions in Ukraine, such as by sending military forces into restive eastern Ukraine. The White House is concerned that Europe's deep economic interests in Russia and dependence on Russian energy could deter EU nations from following through with sanctions that could ricochet onto their own economies.
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Sinn Fein chief Adams still in custody over killing; supporters question motives for arrest
• BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) -- Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams was in police custody for a third day Friday as detectives questioned him over his alleged role in the Irish Republican Army killing of a Belfast mother of 10 in 1972.
• Under British anti-terrorist law Adams, 65, must be charged or released by Friday night, unless a judge approves an extension. Other senior figures in Adams' Irish nationalist party have accused those behind Wednesday's arrest of their leader of pursuing an anti-Sinn Fein agenda.
• Adams, who as Sinn Fein chief since 1983 is Europe's longest-serving party leader, denies any role in the outlawed IRA. But former members who spoke on tape to a Boston College-commissioned research project have linked him to the abduction, slaying and secret burial of Jean McConville, a 38-year-old widow whom the IRA branded a British spy.
• The daughter who has led a two-decade campaign for the truth says she's praying for a murder charge -- and is prepared to name publicly those IRA members she believes are responsible. Her other siblings say they're too afraid to do this because it could inspire IRA attacks on themselves or their children.
• "What are they going to do to me? They have done so much to me in the last 42 years. Are they going to come and put a bullet in my head? Well, they know where I live," Helen McKendry told the BBC Newsnight program.
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Top US diplomat urges end to killing in South Sudan as young nation faces specter of genocide
• JUBA, South Sudan (AP) -- In a stern warning, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is urging South Sudan's warring government and rebel leaders to uphold a monthslong promise to embrace a cease-fire or risk the specter of genocide through (Continued on page 41)
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