US President tells EU it has to lessen its dependence on Russian energy

The US President, Barack Obama, has issued a warning to Russia’s Vladimir Putin to keep his troops out of Ukraine or face even tougher sanctions, calling Russia a “regional power” which would struggle to compete with America’s global influence.

Q. How many people are now under sanctions?

Putin made official the act that triggered the worst crisis in relations between Russia and the West since the end of the Cold War

It cost £5m to construct and can withstand nuclear war, asteroid strikes and extreme weather

They are the ultimate diplomatic gift, but the two giant pandas which finally arrived in Belgium at the weekend have not exactly been healing political rifts in their adopted homeland.

Russia criticised Ukraine’s new rulers on Monday, blaming Western meddlers for installing an interim government, which Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev dismissed as a group of “Kalashnikov-toting” mutineers, which the Kremlin would not work with.

But religious groups say such cases are so rare that there is no need to rush through new laws

Hungary bears its share of responsibility for the genocide of Jews during the Second World War. But a memorial to the atrocity stands accused of rewriting the past