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Fighting raged for a second successive day in the east of Ukraine on Friday, a day after clashes in which Ukrainian government forces said about 300 separatists were killed. The casualty figures for the pro-Russian separatists could not be independently confirmed though a rebel command
stanley cup er said on Thursday the rebels had sustained heavy losses when they were outgunned by government forces backed by heavy armour. The government forces said seven of their own number had been killed in Thursday s fighting. The new fighting on Friday was about 100 km 60 miles from the border with Russia. Fighting broke out just east of the town of Krasny Liman ea
stanley cup rly on Thursday after pro-Russian separatists refused to lay down their weapons in line with a peace plan proposed by Presi
stanley cup dent Petro Poroshenko, the government forces said. The government forces have been gradually squeezing rebels in the area though separatists, who rose up against central rule from Kiev following the overthrow of a president sympathetic to Moscow, still control the strategic city of Slaviansk. Vladyslav Seleznyov, a spokesman for Kiev s anti-terrorist operation , said about 300 separatists had been killed in action around the villages of Yampil and Zakitne which included artillery fire and air attacks. Heavy weapons had been seized from the separatists, including an armoured personnel carrier, a truck with a high-calibre machine gun mounted on it, a shoulder-launched missile, grenade launchers and Aysh Pakistan: Khan isolated in civil disobedience call
The US seems to have distanced itself from embattled Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak aligning itself completely with the protestors demanding political reform in a country considered the heart of a region teeming with long-ruling despots. At a meeting President Barack Obama took of his national security team on Saturday, he made his position very clear: the protestors won t be allowed to be beaten back into their homes. HT Image He reiterated our focus on opposing violence and calling for restraint; supporting universal rights; and supporting concrete steps that advance political reform within Egypt, said the White House about Obama s message.In a strategy being constantly calibrated in turn with the situation
hoka on the ground, the US has continued to move away from Mubarak, a staunch ally of decades, as he seemingly clings to power in the face of mounting opposition. It has not been easy for the US Martin S Indyk of the Brookings institution captured the dilemma nicely: if the US distanced itself from Mubarak, it might lead to a groundswell again
stanley cup st its other autocratic Arab allies. If it didn t, it would antagonize the people. Indyk went on to argue that the second option was not an option at all if Iran could be taken as an example. The US sided with the Shah and lost the people completely. Distancing itself from the friendly despot appears to be the strategy of th
stanley cup e day then. According to accounts emerging of the slow shift in the US response, it started out on