The accusation that President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her foreign minister had conspired to shield Iranians in a bombing appeared to dissolve.
Aliaskhab Kebekov, 43, the leader of the Caucasus Emirate, the most active militant group in Russia, was shot to death in a counterterrorism operation, according to several reports.
The echoes of World War II have never stopped reverberating in France. But perhaps nowhere is the divergence over the memory of the war more acute than between Russia and Ukraine.
The European Union met in Luxembourg on Monday to discuss the disasters as rescuers scrambled to find survivors after ships sank Saturday and early Sunday.