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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Efforts to defuse the crisis in Ukraine via a frenzy of telephone diplomacy failed to ease tensions on Saturday (Sunday in Manila), with the White House insisting that Russia faces "swift and severe costs" if its troops carry out an invasion.

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