The
Ukrainian government says it's regained control of the city hall in the eastern port of
Mariupol from pro-Russian separatists. Administrative buildings have been taken over in at least a dozen towns in
Eastern Ukraine.
(BBC News)
Washington accuses Moscow of fomenting unrest in the east, with Obama threatening the possibility of applying additional sanctions on Russia.
(Reuters)
A battle between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian troops in
Sloviansk, Ukraine, leaves 5 pro-Russian militants dead.
(Reuters via Yahoo! News)
A
policeman shoots dead three American medical staff in the
Afghan capital of
Kabul. The policeman is reported to have shot himself after the attack.
(BBC News)
In
Nevada the
Bundy standoff continues; politicians who had voiced support for Bundy began to distance themselves after the rancher controversially suggested that
African Americans might be better off picking cotton as slaves than "under government subsidy".
(Fox News)