An effort by the United States to broker the first face-to-face diplomatic meeting between Russia and Ukraine over the Crimea crisis failed on Wednesday, but Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart announced more discussions in the days ahead. Their remarks left open the possibility of progress toward a solution to de-escalate one of the most serious East-West confrontations since the Cold War. But while Mr. Kerry asserted Wednesday night that his deliberations here had yielded creative ideas and that he planned to resume talks with the Russian foreign minister in Rome on Thursday, there were also signs of how acute the crisis remained. Continue reading the main story In Crimea, unidentified armed men threatened the United Nations special envoy, Robert Serry, forcing […]