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Seventeen people are missing and presumed dead after a Russian fishing boat sank in the northern Barents Sea Monday morning, authorities said in a statement carried by local media.  "The crew consisted of 19 people. Two people were rescued," the Russian Emergency Ministry said.  Officials believe that ice accumulation on the trawler caused the accident.  The privately owned ship Onega , based in Murmansk, capsized and sank near the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in the Barents Sea.  Four vessels have been deployed for a search and rescue operation in the area and a criminal investigation is already underway.   

Tweeting from his golf resort in New Jersey on Sunday morning, the President of the United States disparaged the effort to find a diplomatic solution to the nuclear standoff with North Korea. “I told Rex Tillerson, our wonderful Secretary of State, that he is wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man,” Donald Trump wrote, using the nickname he has adopted to humiliate the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un. The President was responding to Tillerson’s recent comment that the U.S. is “probing” for diplomatic solutions via two or three channels to Pyongyang. In his tweets on Sunday, Trump belittled that strategy and suggested that he is more interested in military action: “Save your energy Rex, we’ll do what has to be done!” You can take the temperature of America’s standoff with North Korea in several ways. Some indicators are reassuring. Were North Korea actually preparing to reduce the United States to “ashes and darkness,” as it recently suggested that...