WILMINGTON Del. (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday discussed a downed passenger plane along the Russian-Ukraine border on Thursday during a phone call prompted by a new round of U.S. economic sanctions against Moscow.
Obama doggedly went ahead with a day trip out of Washington as the Ukraine crisis flared anew, amid reports that 23 Americans were among the 285 people aboard the Malaysia Airlines plane that went down along the Russia-Ukraine border.
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