Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
1. RUSSIA’S TAKEOVER OF CRIMEA LEADS TO ILLEGAL PROPERTY GRAB
An AP investigation finds that pro-Moscow factions have expropriated thousands of assets belonging to Crimean citizens.
2. KURDISH FEMALE FIGHTERS PLAY KEY ROLE IN DEFENDING KOBANI AGAINST IS MILITANTS
“We won’t allow the terrorist groups in until the last drop of our blood,” Pervin Kobani, the 19-year-old daughter of a farmer who also took up arms, says.