BRUSSELS - The European Union will widen its ban on investment in Crimea to target Russian Black Sea oil and gas exploration, EU officials said on dec. 17, tightening sanctions first imposed over Moscow's annexation of the region.
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A woman looks at a US President Barack Obama doll at a street market in Simferopol, Crimea, on December 12, 2014.