Looking ahead

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Paris meeting to deal with Ukraine crisis

Russian President Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko have agreed to meet in Paris on Friday to deal with the problems in eastern Ukraine, according to the Russian presidential press service. About 1.2 million people in Ukraine have now been internally displaced because of conflict in the country, the UN humanitarian office reported in April.