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A top RCMP officer requested help to pay for extra policing costs during last fall’s fisheries dispute in southwest Nova Scotia, but the province’s justice minister resisted for two weeks and only agreed after two lobster pounds holding Mi’kmaw catch were vandalized.RCMP officers stand on the wharf in Saulnierville, N.S., in front of supporters of a…

In Crimea, Russian-backed forces stormed Ukraine’s naval headquarters in Sevastapol, but no violence has been reported. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton…