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| Rebels declare victory in east Ukraine vote on self-rule | | Monday, May 12, 2014 2:33 AM | |
| | By Matt Robinson and Alessandra Prentice DONETSK/SLAVIANSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Pro-Moscow rebels declared a resounding victory in a referendum on self-rule for eastern Ukraine, with some saying that meant independence and others eventual union with Russia as fighting flared in a conflict increasingly out of control. Another said the vote simply showed that the East wanted to decide its own fate, whether in Ukraine, on its own, or as part of Russia. \"Eighty-nine percent, that's it,\" the head of the separatist electoral commission in Donetsk, Roman Lyagin, said by telephone when asked for the result of a vote that the pro-Western Ukrainian government in Kiev has condemned as illegal. Sunday's vote went ahead despite a call by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday to postpone it - a move that briefly raised hopes for an easing of tension. |
| Rebels talk of splitting Ukraine as East votes on self-rule | |  By Matt Robinson and Alessandra Prentice MARIUPOL/SLAVIANSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Pro-Moscow rebels pressed ahead with a referendum on self-rule in east Ukraine on Sunday and fighting flared anew in a conflict that could dismember the country and pitch Russia and the West into a new Cold War. Another said the vote would not change the region's status, but simply show that the East wanted to decide its own fate, whether in Ukraine, on its own or as part of Russia. In others, clashes broke out between separatists and troops, over ballot papers and control of a television tower. Zhenya Denyesh, a 20-year-old student, was second to vote at a concrete three-storey university building in the rebel stronghold of Slaviansk.
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| Abdullah wins key ally in Afghan presidential race | |  By Hamid Shalizi KABUL (Reuters) - Former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah received a boost in the race for the Afghan presidency on Sunday when one of the pre-election favourites dropped out and backed his team ahead of next month's expected run-off. Zalmay Rassoul, who finished third in April's first round with 11.5 percent of the vote, told journalists in Kabul he had endorsed Abdullah to strengthen national unity, and because the pair campaigned on similar platforms. Preliminary results showed Abdullah and his closest rival, former World Bank economist Ashraf Ghani, sharing over 75 percent of the vote but neither winning an absolute majority. The Afghan election commission will announce official first round results on Wednesday from the election, in which President Hamid Karzai was constitutionally barred from running again.
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| Gunmen kill man, wound six at toddlers' party in California | | | REUTERS - Gunmen killed a man and wounded six people including a seven-year-old child when they opened fire on a toddler's birthday party in California, in what police said on Sunday might have been a gang-related shooting. The police said California gang and homicide detectives were investigating the incident, in which several men armed with guns approached the gathering in Sacramento's Peregrine Park on Saturday afternoon and opened fire. \"Our gang detectives were called out so we are going to try to get to the bottom of that,\" Police Officer Doug Morse told local media during a briefing at the scene. |
| East Ukraine referendum raises fears of dismemberment | | | By Matt Robinson and Alessandra Prentice MARIUPOL/SLAVIANSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Separatist rebels pressed ahead with a referendum on self-rule in east Ukraine on Sunday and fighting flared anew in a conflict that looked set to dismember the country and pitch Russia and the West into a new Cold War. In others, armed altercations broke out between security forces and separatists, over ballot papers and control of a television tower. In the southeastern port of Mariupol, scene of fierce fighting last week, there were only eight polling centres for a population of half a million. On the eastern outskirts, a little over an hour after polls opened, soldiers from Kiev seized what they said were falsified ballot papers, marked with Yes votes, and detained two men. |
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