Ukraine

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Ukrainian rescuers carry a stretcher with a gas explosion victim's body at the Skochinsky mine in Donetsk, Ukraine, Friday, April 11, 2014. Several people were killed in a gas explosion at a coal mine in eastern Ukraine on Friday, officials said. The Emergency Services Ministry said Seventy-eight people were working in the mine when the blast occurred early Friday morning. They said it was provoked by a sudden release of gas during work in the drilling pits. 13 rescue teams and five resuscitation and anti-shock teams were dispatched to the scene of the accident, officials said. (AP Photo/Andrey Basevich)

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Ukraine’s prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, center, speaks during his meeting with regional leaders in Donetsk, Ukraine, Friday, April 11, 2014. Ukraine’s prime minister on Friday told leaders in the country’s restive east that he is committed to allowing regions to have more powers. Yatsenyuk Friday morning flew into Donetsk, where pro-Russian separatists are occupying the regional administration building and calling for a referendum that could prefigure seeking annexation by Russia. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

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A masked pro-Russian activist guards a barricade during a rally at the regional administration building that they had seized earlier in Donetsk, Ukraine, Thursday, April 10, 2014. in Donetsk, Ukraine, Thursday, April 10, 2014. Ukraine’s acting president on Thursday promised pro-Russian activists occupying government buildings in the country’s east that they will not be prosecuted if they lay down their arms, as protests continue to flare up across Ukraine’s industrial heartland. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

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A masked pro-Russian activist guards a barricade during a rally at the regional administration building that they had seized earlier in Donetsk, Ukraine, Thursday, April 10, 2014. in Donetsk, Ukraine, Thursday, April 10, 2014. Ukraine’s acting president on Thursday promised pro-Russian activists occupying government buildings in the country’s east that they will not be prosecuted if they lay down their arms, as protests continue to flare up across Ukraine’s industrial heartland. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

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A man warms himself at a fire next to barricades in front of an entrance of the Ukrainian regional office of the Security Service in Luhansk, 30 kilometers (20 miles) west of the Russian border, in Ukraine, Friday, April 11, 2014. Ukraine’s prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Friday told leaders in the country’s restive east that he is committed to allowing regions to have more powers. Yatsenyuk told the meeting, which did not include representatives of the separatists, that more authority should be delegated to regional authorities. (AP Photo/Igor Golovniov)

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A group of pro-Russian activists warm themselves at a bonfire next to barricades in front of an entrance to the Ukrainian regional office of the Security Service in Luhansk, 30 kilometers (20 miles) west of the Russian border, in Ukraine, Friday, April 11, 2014. Ukraine’s prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Friday told leaders in the country’s restive east that he is committed to allowing regions to have more powers. Yatsenyuk told the meeting, which did not include representatives of the separatists, that more authority should be delegated to regional authorities. (AP Photo/Igor Golovniov)

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Ukraine’s prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk speaks during his meeting with regional leaders in Donetsk, Ukraine, Friday, April 11, 2014. Ukraine’s prime minister on Friday told leaders in the country’s restive east that he is committed to allowing regions to have more powers. Yatsenyuk Friday morning flew into Donetsk, where pro-Russian separatists are occupying the regional administration building and calling for a referendum that could prefigure seeking annexation by Russia. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

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Masked pro-Russian activists pass by a barricade as they guard a regional administration building that they had seized earlier in Donetsk, Ukraine, Friday, April 11, 2014. Ukraine’s prime minister on Friday told leaders in the country’s restive east that he is committed to allowing regions to have more powers. Yatsenyuk Friday morning flew into Donetsk, where pro-Russian separatists are occupying the regional administration building and calling for a referendum that could prefigure seeking annexation by Russia. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)