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September 1, 2015

Ukraine: 1 Officer Dead After Ultra-Nationalists Clash with Police 
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In Ukraine, the government says a National Guard member has been killed
and 125 people injured, most of them officers, as members of nationalist
parties clashed with security forces outside Ukraine's Parliament. The
Ukrainian government blamed the violence on ultra-nationalists, whom
security forces accused of throwing grenades. The unrest came after
lawmakers backed a measure to grant more autonomy to two eastern regions
currently held by pro-Russia rebels. The measure is one of the first
steps in a peace deal intended to end the conflict in eastern Ukraine,
which has killed more than 7,000 people since it began in March of last
year.

 

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