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| Dozens die in Odessa blaze, rebels down Ukraine helicopters | |  By Maria Tsvetkova SLAVIANSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Dozens of people were killed in a fire and others were shot dead when fighting between pro- and anti-Russian groups broke out on the streets of Odessa on Ukraine's Black Sea coast on Friday. In the country's east, pro-Russian separatists brought down two Ukrainian military helicopters involved in an operation to try to dislodge the militants from their strongholds in the town of Slaviansk. Eastern Ukraine has been a focus of concern in Western capitals since Moscow annexed mainly Russian Crimea from Ukraine in March. Clashes have also broken out in largely Russian-speaking Odessa, not far from Crimea, but they had never involved deaths before.
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| More than 40 killed in fire, clashes in Ukraine's Odessa | | | By Natalia Zinets KIEV (Reuters) - More than 40 people were killed in Odessa on Friday, most caught in a building set on fire after pro-Russian activists and supporters of Ukrainian unity fought running battles across the southern port city. In the worst violence in the Black Sea port since President Viktor Yanukovich was ousted in February, police said 38 people had choked to death on smoke or were killed when jumping out of windows after the trade union building was set on fire. The opposing sides in a battle that is being repeated in other parts of Ukraine, especially in its east, have clashed before in Odessa, but the violence has never before resulted in deaths. Waving the blue and yellow Ukrainian flag, wearing helmets and holding batons, thousands of Ukrainians took to the streets to march in support of the European path taken by Kiev. |
| Rebels down Ukraine helicopters, four dead in Odessa | |  By Maria Tsvetkova SLAVIANSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Pro-Russian rebels shot down two Ukrainian helicopters trying to retake separatist-held Slaviansk in the country's east on Friday and four people were killed as fighting broke out on the streets of Odessa on the Black Sea. Separatists said Ukrainian forces killed three of their fighters and two civilians when they moved in on Slaviansk in the early hours in what Moscow called a "criminal" assault. Kiev said two helicopter crew had died and seven servicemen had been wounded in the operation. On the other side of Ukraine, police said three people were shot dead and in 15 others were wounded in clashes between people backing Kiev and pro-Russian activists in largely Russian-speaking Odessa.
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| At least 38 killed in fire in Ukraine's southern Odessa port | | | At least 38 people were killed in a fire on Friday in the trade union building in the centre of Ukraine's southern port city of Odessa, regional police said. |
| Rebels down Ukraine helicopters, three dead in Odessa | |  By Maria Tsvetkova SLAVIANSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Pro-Russian rebels shot down two Ukrainian helicopters trying to retake separatist-held Slaviansk on Friday in what Moscow called a "criminal" assault on the eastern town. Separatists said Ukrainian forces killed three of their fighters and two civilians when they moved in on Slaviansk in the early hours. Kiev said two helicopter crew had died and seven servicemen had been wounded in the operation. On the other side of Ukraine, police said three people were shot dead and in 15 others were wounded in clashes between people backing Kiev and pro-Russian activists in largely Russian-speaking Odessa.
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| Twenty-two Muslims killed in sectarian attacks in Assam | |  By Biswajyoti Das GUWAHATI India (Reuters) - Suspected tribal rebels have shot dead 22 Muslims in attacks in tea-growing state of Assam, where tension has run high during a drawn-out national election, officials said on Friday. Bodo representatives argue that many of the Muslims are illegal immigrants from neighbouring Bangladesh encroaching on their ancestral lands, and election candidates including front-runner Narendra Modi have called for tighter migration controls.
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| Spygate' protagonist Stepney dies in road accident | | | By Alan Baldwin LONDON (Reuters) - Former Ferrari engineer Nigel Stepney, who was sacked by the Formula One team after being accused of sabotage and leaking confidential data to McLaren in 2007, has died in a road accident, his sportscar team said. Kent Police said in a separate statement that a 56-year-old, confirmed by the team to be Stepney, was hit by a truck at 1.28 am after stopping his van on the hard shoulder of the M20 motorway at Ashford. McLaren were fined a record $100 million by the International Automobile Federation and stripped of all their constructors' points in 2007 after being found guilty of possessing a 780-page dossier of Ferrari data. Stepney and McLaren's then-chief designer Mike Coughlan, who had the information at his home, were sacked by their teams. |
| Rebels down Ukraine helicopters, Putin denounces city assault | |  By Maria Tsvetkova SLAVIANSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Pro-Russian rebels shot down two Ukrainian helicopters near separatist-held Slaviansk on Friday, killing two crew members, while Moscow accused Kiev of wrecking hopes of peace by launching a "criminal" assault to retake the eastern town. Separatists said Ukrainian forces killed three of their fighters and two civilians when they moved in on Slaviansk in the early hours, but that the troops had only taken five checkpoints from the rebels. On the other side of Ukraine, police said a man was shot dead in clashes between a crowd backing Kiev and pro-Russian activists in the largely Russian-speaking southern port of Odessa, which lies west of Crimea, annexed by Moscow in March.
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| Political fever rises as Ukraine breaks apart | |  Financial journalist Yulia Sarotsyna spent a year living only off products made in Ukraine for a relentlessly upbeat blog to promote local brands. On the road for five months, she found toothbrushes from Kharkiv, sausage in the north, and even snails in the capital Kiev: "I discovered that Ukraine produces absolutely everything for a comfortable life," she wrote. But two weeks after she finished her project, an uprising forced Ukraine's pro-Russian president to flee the country. Tens of thousands of Russian troops are massed on the frontier, with President Vladimir Putin openly threatening to invade to protect Russian speakers.
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| Turkey dismisses corruption case that has dogged PM Erdogan | |  By Nick Tattersall and Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish prosecutors have dismissed a corruption case against 60 suspects, among them a former minister's son and a construction tycoon, burying part of a scandal that has dogged Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's inner circle for months, media said on Friday. The case, concerning the alleged award of illegal permits in building projects, was the smaller of two dossiers in the graft affair, which broke into the open on Dec. 17 when businessmen close to Erdogan and three ministers' sons were detained. The scandal posed one of the biggest challenges of Erdogan's 11-year rule, leading three members of his cabinet to quit and drawing international criticism for his response - tightening control of the Internet, banning Twitter for two weeks and reassigning police, judges and prosecutors. Erdogan has cast the corruption investigations as part of an attempted "judicial coup" by U.S.-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen, a former ally who wields influence in the police and judiciary.
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| Tribal militants kill 11 Muslims in fresh attack | | | GUWAHATI India (Reuters) - Heavily armed tribal guerrillas raided a village in Assam on Friday and killed 11 Muslim settlers in a further attack linked to an upsurge in ethnic tensions during a drawn-out general election. Nine of the dead were women and children in the attack in the tea-growing state hours after two similar attacks there in which 11 people, all of them Muslims, were killed. ... |
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