Crimea

JOSH LEDERMAN, Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden says the world has seen through Russia's actions in Crimea and will impose more sanctions on Russia.

MARIA DANILOVA, Associated Press KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Crimea's Parliament said Tuesday that if the public votes to become part of Russia, the peninsula will declare itself independent and propose becoming a Russian state. That could offer a way of de-escalating the standoff between Russia and the West.

DALTON BENNETT, Associated Press LAURA MILLS, Associated Press SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's fugitive president Viktor Yanukovych resurfaced in Russia to deliver a defiant condemnation of a "bandit coup," while Russian armored vehicles bearing the nation's tricolor rumbled across Crimea and men described as Russian troops took position at airports and a coast guard base — ominous