Crimea votes to join Russia amid Western outrage (via AFP)

Crimeans voted overwhelmingly Sunday to join former political master Russia as tensions soared in the east of the splintered ex-Soviet nation, the epicentre of the worst East-West crisis since the Cold War. Exit polls cited by local officials showed…

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