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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 3/26/2015 2:12:10 AM
	Report: France jet audio shows pilot locked out of cockpit By GREG KELLER and ELAINE GANLEY1 hours ago Reuters Videos Germanwings black box reveals "usable audio data file" Watch video SEYNE-LES-ALPES, France (AP) — The first half of Germanwings Flight 9525 was chilling in its normalcy. It took off from Barcelona en route to Duesseldorf, climbing up over the Mediterranean and turning over France. The last communication was a routine request to continue on its route. Minutes later, at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, the Airbus A320 inexplicably began to descend. Within 10 minutes it had plunged from its cruising altitude of 38,000 feet to just over 6,000 feet and slammed into a remote mountainside. To find out why, investigators have been analyzing the mangled black box that contains an audio recording from the cockpit. Remi Jouty, the head of France's accident investigation bureau BEA, said Wednesday that it has yielded sounds and voices, but so far not the "slightest explanation" of why the plane crashed, killing all 150 on board. View gallery . A newspaper report, however, suggests the audio contains intriguing information at the least: One of the pilots is heard leaving the cockpit, then banging on the door with increasing urgency in an unsuccessful attempt to get back in. "The guy outside is knocking lightly on the door and there is no answer," The New York Times quotes an unidentified investigator as saying. "And then he hits the door stronger and no answer. There is never an answer." Eventually, the newspaper quotes the investigator as saying: "You can hear he is trying to smash the door down." The investigator, whom the newspaper said could not be identified because the investigation is continuing, said officials don't know why the pilot left. He also does not speculate on why the other pilot didn't open the door or make contact with ground control before the crash. Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, airlines in the U.S. don't leave one pilot alone in the cockpit. The standard operating procedure is that if one of the pilots leaves — for example to use the bathroom — a flight attendant takes their spot in the cockpit. It was not immediately clear if European airlines have adopted the same practice. The names of the pilots have not been released. View gallery . This photo provided by the Gendarmerie Nationale shows debris of the crashed Germanwings passenger jet scattered … French officials gave no details from the recording on Wednesday, insisting the cause of the crash remained a mystery. They said the descent was gradual enough to suggest the plane was under the control of its navigators. "At this point, there is no explanation," Jouty said. "One doesn't imagine that the pilot consciously sends his plane into a mountain." Jouty said "sounds and voices" were registered on the digital audio file recovered from the first black box. But he did not divulge the contents, insisting days or weeks will be needed to decipher them. "There's work of understanding voices, sounds, alarms, attribution of different voices," the BEA chief said. Confusion surrounded the fate of the second black box. French President Francois Hollande said the casing of the flight data recorder had been found in the scattered debris, but was missing the memory card that captures 25 hours' worth of information on the position and condition of almost every major part in a plane. Jouty refused to confirm the discovery. French officials said terrorism appeared unlikely and Germany's top security official said there was no evidence of foul play. View gallery . Students mourn in front of candles and flowers at the Joseph-Koenig Gymnasium in Haltern, western Germany, Wednesday, … As authorities struggled to unravel the puzzle, Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy converged on the remote accident site to pay their respects to the dead — mostly German and Spanish citizens among at least 17 nationalities. "This is a true tragedy, and the visit here has shown us that," Merkel said after she and Hollande overflew the desolate craggy mountainside. Helicopters ferried in rescue workers and other personnel throughout the day. More than 600 rescue and security workers and aviation investigators were on site, French officials said. Germanwings CEO Thomas Winkelmann said the airline was in the process of contacting victims' families. He said the 144 passengers and six crew members included 72 Germans, 35 Spaniards, three Americans and two people each from Australia, Argentina, Iran, Venezuela, and one person each from Britain, the Netherlands, Colombia, Mexico, Japan, Denmark, Belgium and Israel. The three Americans included a mother and daughter, the U.S. State Department said. Some of the victims may have had dual nationalities; Spain's government said 51 citizens had died in the crash. View gallery . Rescue workers and security officers guard the makeshift morgue prepared for the 150 victims who died in a Germanwings … Two babies, two opera singers and 16 German high school students and their teachers returning from an exchange program in Spain were among those who lost their lives. The principal of Joseph Koenig High School, Ulrich Wessel, called the loss a "tragedy that renders one speechless." In Spain, flags flew at half-staff on government buildings and a minute of silence was held in government offices across the country. Parliament canceled its Wednesday session. Barcelona's Liceu opera house held two minutes of silence at noon to honor the two German opera singers, Oleg Bryjak and Maria Radner, who were returning home after a weekend performance at the theater. Germanwings canceled several flights Wednesday because some crews declared themselves unfit to fly after losing colleagues. ___ Ganley reported from Paris. Thomas Adamson, Lori Hinnant and Sylvie Corbet in Paris; Kristen Grieshaber in Haltern, Germany; David Rising and Geir Moulson in Berlin; Alan Clendenning and Jorge Sainz in Madrid; Michael Corder in The Hague, Netherlands, and AP Airlines writer Scott Mayerowitz in New York contributed to this report. View Gallery
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 3/26/2015 2:31:56 AM
	Ukraine arrests officials on live TV, sacks powerful oligarch By James Pheby4 hours ago A Ukrainian policeman arrests Sergiy Bochkovsky (left) during a televised cabinet meeting in Kiev, on march 25, 2015 (AFP Photo/Andrew Kravchenko) View Gallery Kiev (AFP) - Ukraine on Wednesday dramatically arrested two top officials on graft charges at a televised cabinet meeting hours after the president sacked a powerful oligarch as regional governor. Related Stories Kolomoisky, the ruthless oligarch key to peace in Ukraine AFP Ukraine leader fires powerful oligarch Kolomoisky as regional chief Reuters [$$] Ukraine Government Tries to Rein In Oligarch Ally The Wall Street Journal 2 Ukraine officials arrested on live TV during gov't meeting Associated Press Passenger bus hits landmine in east Ukraine, three dead AFP The unexpected shake-up came as the beleaguered authorities, already struggling to combat pro-Russian separatists in the country's east, tried to make good on pledges to tackle rampant graft and curb the influence of the country's powerful business magnates. Police detained Sergiy Bochkovsky, director of Ukraine's state emergencies service, and his deputy Vasyl Stoyetsky, in full glare of journalists and photographers, accusing them of "high-level" corruption. Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said the sight of handcuffed officials being marched out of a government meeting served as a warning to other officials suspected of graft, with international backers in the West demanding Ukraine stamp out corruption. "This will happen to everyone who breaks the law and sneers at the Ukrainian state," Yatsenyuk said. "When the country is at war and when we are counting every penny, they steal from people," he added. View gallery Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk waves to journalists as he arrives for an European People … Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said the two men were suspected of overpaying for public procurements from companies including Russian oil giant Lukoil, and channeling the excess funds into offshore accounts. Meanwhile, the ongoing conflict between government forces and pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine claimed at least three more lives Wednesday when a passenger bus drove over a landmine, police said. The accident happened near the government-held town of Artemivsk, some 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the rebel stronghold of Donetsk. "The driver had wanted to avoid a Ukrainian checkpoint near Artemivsk by going through the field and he drove over a landmine," a spokesman for the Donetsk regional administration told AFP, putting the toll at four dead. The fighting has killed more than 6,000 people since April. Despite a shaky ceasefire agreed over a month ago, occasional skirmishes have continued and rural roads and fields in the conflict zones are strewn with landmines. View gallery A picture taken and released by the Ukrainian Prime Minister press-service in Kiev on March 25, 2015 … - Billionaire governor - Overnight, President Petro Poroshenko announced that billionaire Igor Kolomoisky had offered to step down as governor of the key industrial region of Dnipropetrovsk after a dispute over control of the country's largest oil producer ended up with armed men storming the offices of two state-controlled oil firms. "The president of Ukraine confirmed Igor Kolomoisky's request to resign" at a meeting between the two men in Kiev, the presidency said in a statement. The banking tycoon was appointed to the post after the ouster of Kremlin-backed president Viktor Yanukovych last year and he has proved a bulwark against the pro-Russian rebellion rocking neighbouring eastern regions. He funded a powerful volunteer militia group that has played a leading role in fighting the heavily-armed insurgents, even offering a $20,000 reward for any separatists captured and handed to authorities in Dnipropetrovsk. View gallery A picture taken and released by Ukrainian presidential press-service in Kiev on March 25, 2015 shows … Kolomoisky's departure has stoked fears that the region's fragile peace could be shattered, but Poroshenko insisted that stability was a priority. "Dnipropetrovsk must remain a bastion of Ukraine in the east to defend the peace and calm of its citizens," he said in the statement. - Fearsome reputation - Although Kolomoisky, 52, officially resigned, experts believe it was Poroshenko's decision. The president -- himself a billionaire -- is under pressure from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which approved a $17.5 billion rescue package for Ukraine's war-battered economy earlier this month, to clean up the country's politics. The end of Kolomoisky's tenure came after armed men suspected to be working for him barricaded themselves inside the headquarters of the Ukrnafta energy company, before leaving peacefully Tuesday after a tense two-day standoff. Kolomoisky's Privat Group owns 43 percent of Ukrnafta. The show of force followed parliament's adoption of a law that increases state control over public companies, weakening Kolomoisky's de-facto grip on the oil producer. Kolomoisky, famous for having a shark aquarium in his office, has often been accused of using threats of violence to construct his empire, which includes interests in banking, steel, aviation and the media as well as football club Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. Fellow oligarch Viktor Pinchuk has even accused him of arranging gangland murders. But his fearsome reputation has helped repel the rebel threat, according to MP and interior ministry adviser Anton Gerashchenko. Gerashchenko claimed on Facebook that Kolomoisky took some separatist leaders "for a walk in the woods, where explanatory work was conducted to explain how exactly to love Ukraine. And the separatist threat just vanished." Highlighting Kolomoisky's influence in the conflict, analyst Volodymyr Fesenko told AFP: "If he wants war, there will be war."
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 3/26/2015 10:11:43 AM
	Israel suspends E.Jerusalem settlement building plan 17 hours ago Israel occupied the West Bank and east Jerusalem after the 1967 Six-Day war and the international community considers Jewish settlements -- such as this one at Har Homa -- to be an obstacle to any future peace deal with the Palestinians (AFP Photo/Ahmad Gharabli) View Gallery Jerusalem (AFP) - As tension mounts with Washington, Israel's outgoing government has suspended a controversial plan to build hundreds of new settler homes in annexed east Jerusalem, a news website reported Wednesday. Related Stories Netanyahu promises no Palestinian state if he is re-elected Associated Press If reelected, Netanyahu vows wave of E.Jerusalem building AFP Netanyahu says Israel will not cede land to Palestinians Associated Press Netanyahu: Israel Won't Cede Territory To Palestinians Huffington Post Netanyahu says no Palestinian state if reelected AFP The plan involves the construction of 1,500 homes in the settlement neighbourhood of Har Homa where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a controversial speech on the eve of March 17 elections, pledging to build thousands of new homes if returned to office. His remarks on east Jerusalem construction, along with comments ruling out a Palestinian state, have sparked a bitter spat with Washington. Ynet said the Netanyahu's office had frozen the plans due to their "political sensitivity". Daniel Seidemann, director of settlement watchdog Terrestrial Jerusalem, told AFP that given the "highly problematic" nature of the plan and Netanyahu's current standoff with Washington, it had "a ring of truth" to it. "This would be a particularly inflammatory plan and I think that he's afraid that the ceiling would cave in on him," he said. View gallery Map showing the main Israeli settlement blocs in the West Bank (AFP Photo/) The report quoted unnamed housing ministry and Jerusalem municipality sources as saying two meetings to discuss advancing the plans had been cancelled for reasons that were unclear. Planning officials said Netanyahu's office had not given the green light for the meetings. In response to a question from AFP, Netanyahu's office neither confirmed nor denied the report, saying the plan "was not sent to the prime minister's office". "Regarding other plans that were not brought up this week, there will be a discussion on the matter when the new government is in place," it said. Netanyahu is to be formally tasked Wednesday with building a new coalition, which is likely to take several weeks. View gallery An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man walks past Beitar Elit, one of 137 settlements and ouposts in the occup … - 'Game changer' - While unable to confirm details in the report, Seidemann said the plan was for construction on private land west of Har Homa that had been shelved a year ago but was now being brought up for initial approval. He said there had been an unofficial freeze on east Jerusalem construction since the approval in late September of thousands of housing units in Givat HaMatos, a settlement suburb currently being built. "Since the approval of Givat HaMatos - and I'm speaking exclusively about east Jerusalem - there have been no new tenders, no new plans deposited for public review and no new plans approved - which is quite remarkable," he said. This plan is a private initiative, meaning that Netanyahu's ability to block it would be limited, he said. "Netanyahu is obviously going to be very cautious at the moment given the nature of his relations with the US. On the other hand, his authority to hold up a private plan is limited," he said. If the plan were given the green light, it would complete a ring of settlement neighbourhoods around east Jerusalem, effectively cutting off the Holy City from the southern West Bank. That would created "an effective buffer between Bethlehem and Jerusalem, and that is a game changer," he said, as it would further complicate establishing a viable and contiguous Palestinian state with east Jerusalem as its capital.
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 3/26/2015 10:30:43 AM
	‘Distrust and Verify’: How Obama will sell an Iran deal to America, Congress and the world Olivier KnoxChief Washington CorrespondentMarch 26, 2015 (Illustration: @2015 Horsey. Los Angeles Times, All rights reserved. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC) The White House is gearing up to unleash an unprecedented campaign to sell a nuclear deal with Iran, should President Obama secure it, in a bid to win over divided Americans, skeptical lawmakers and wary Middle Eastern allies. The blueprint for defending the legacy-defining agreement was described to Yahoo News by current and former officials from the administration and Congress. Obama and his top national security and foreign policy aides will defend the deal forcefully to the public and in private talks with wavering senators and representatives. They will emphasize the deal’s intrusive monitoring and verification of Iranian nuclear facilities, an approach national security adviser Susan Rice recently summarized in a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) as “distrust and verify.” They will defend the easing of crippling economic sanctions in return for steps Iran is taking to assure the world that its nuclear program is entirely peaceful. Lawmakers will get “as many classified briefings as it takes” from the administration on the more complex aspects of an agreement. Senior diplomats will fan out in an effort to reassure close allies like Saudi Arabia, Iran’s main rival for regional influence, and Israel, even though Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen as an implacable foe of any agreement. Obama’s approach will, at times, feel more like a sledgehammer than a scalpel — as demonstrated last Wednesday when the National Security Council forwarded the cartoon above to reporters who cover the White House. The drawing landed in reporters’ inboxes under the heading “Select Iran Coverage”; the special clips packages started landing in early March to promote media coverage and expert commentaries that advance the administration’s goals. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves as he steps to the podium prior to speaking before a joint meeting of Congress on March 3, 2015. (Photo: Andrew Harnik/AP) Already the campaign is revving up. White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough delivered some of these arguments this week in a speech to J Street, a left-of-center group that supports the talks. The organization’s ideological rival, the AIPAC, opposes the negotiations. If a deal is done, McDonough said, “Everyone from the president on down will aggressively seek congressional and public support for any deal.” “The bottom line is this — compared to the alternatives, diplomacy offers the best and most effective way to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, and this is our best shot at diplomacy,” McDonough said. “We cannot remove diplomacy from America’s toolbox — that’s not how we’ve come to lead the world.” It’s an argument that the president and his aides have been making since before the negotiations began. During his 2012 re-election campaign, Obama implied that opponents of engaging Iran diplomatically “ think that it’s time to launch a war .” Earlier this month, White House press secretary Josh Earnest declared that “ the rush to war, or at least the rush to the military option that many Republicans are advocating, is not at all in the best interests of the United States.” The message to Democrats will be more subtle. “Having the deal in hand will help,” a senior official said. “You should expect us to ask them, ‘What would you do differently here?’” The administration also expects that sympathetic outside experts will explain and vouch for an accord , or at least promote a “hold-your-fire approach” that could forestall action in Congress that might scuttle an agreement. Obama aides hope to enlist prominent Republican foreign policy figures for that purpose. Officials described the plan to Yahoo News on condition of anonymity because an agreement has not yet been reached. Current and former Obama aides say that they hope to have an easier time selling a nuclear deal than they had pitching Obamacare and a comprehensive overhaul of immigration policy. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, holds a meeting with Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, right, over Iran’s nuclear program, in Lausanne, Switzerland, on March 18, 2015. (Photo: Brian Snyder/Pool/AP) “Do Republicans favor giving undocumented immigrants a potential pathway to citizenship? No. Do Republicans favor setting up marketplaces to enable Americans to purchase affordable health insurance? No,” a senior Obama adviser told Yahoo News. “Everyone agrees that we need to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. We share a goal. That should help.” The stakes could scarcely be higher. Whether they succeed or fail, negotiations aimed at ensuring that Iran does not develop nuclear weapons will define the balance of power in the Middle East, America’s global influence, Israel’s security and efforts to restrict membership in the world’s “nuclear club.” Obama has repeatedly acknowledged in public that, if Tehran decides to try to build a bomb, the deal will only slow that process enough to give the world community time to respond. Polls show that Americans favor negotiations, but at the same time, they are skeptical about whether a deal can succeed. A recent CNN poll in mid-March found 68 percent saying they favored the negotiations and 49 percent saying the open letter from 47 Senate Republicans to Iran’s leaders, looking to scuttle the talks, went too far. But an NBC poll from earlier in the month found 71 percent saying a deal will not make a real difference in whether Iran decides to build nuclear weapons. Building public support for the agreement will be important, but several officials said the most important audience may be Congress. Obama has successfully warned ever since the negotiations really got going, in late 2013, that legislation threatening new sanctions could derail his diplomatic efforts. Last summer, the White House used that argument to successfully beat back sanctions legislation that had Democratic support. It didn’t hurt that the White House could count on then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to keep problematic bills bottled up. Two Obama aides said they were not sure what course Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will chart if a deal is reached. But all-out lobbying by the administration, including phone calls and other outreach from Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry, McDonough and U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power yielded a key breakthrough this week: The postponement of action on legislation that Obama has warned could undermine the talks. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn., put off action by the committee on a bill he introduced that would assert that any final accord must get an up-or-down vote in Congress. Rather than taking the measure up this week, the committee will do so on April 14 — well past the end-of-March deadline for reaching a political deal with Iran. Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker talks to the media about the letter sent to Iranian leaders, on March 10, 2015, in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images) Corker has made rallying a veto-proof majority for his bill a priority, and he needs a handful of elusive Democratic votes to do so. The administration has been courting Democrats who might be inclined to join Corker, and urging some who are already on the record supporting the legislation to help them put off action until after the July deadline for a technical deal with Iran that would flesh out the political deal sought by the end of March. “We’re not in the position of having to win over lawmakers to approve a deal,” a senior Obama aide argued. “We are in the position of having to convince lawmakers to keep their powder dry. Those are very different things.” But a top aide to a senior House of Representatives Democrat warned the White House that “if there’s a vote on something” — especially something like Corker’s bill, “that’s not going to be possible.” “There are Democrats who would be amenable to saying, ‘This is reasonable, it’s a nuclear deal, it will have far-ranging impact, Congress should have a say,’” according to the aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity to speak candidly. But, the aide argued, the GOP overplayed its hand in recent weeks, inviting Netanyahu to make the case against Obama’s diplomacy, penning an open letter to Iranian leaders telling them the president’s agreement would not outlast his time in office and trying to fast-track Corker’s legislation over Democratic objections. “People were frustrated about Bibi’s address, but it didn’t seem to change the debate the way the letter did,” the aide said. “It’s just given more people pause in terms of ‘hang on a second, Israel isn’t something to be politicized, and that’s what these people are trying to do.’” House GOP leaders have yet to rally behind any legislation mirroring Corker’s proposal. That has taken some of the heat off the White House, which says that lawmakers will get to weigh in eventually, when it comes time to lift sanctions legislation entirely. The administration also hopes to leverage support for a potential deal from the five other world powers now negotiating with Iran — Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia — to win over skeptics. (The parties are known as the P5+1 because they group the five veto-wielding permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, plus Germany). John Kerry, U.S. secretary of state, speaks during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee meeting in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Kerry recently delivered a version of the argument in testimony to Corker’s committee, saying that even a Republican president would find it difficult to undo a deal “if all of those countries have said, ‘This is good and it’s working.’” Administration officials emphasize that they aren’t taking an agreement for granted, and they underline that even if one is sealed, Iran could decide to try to cheat. The most popular phrase in the West Wing these days may be “if a deal is reached.” But current and former Obama aides underscored that the president has been selling this pivotal piece of his second-term foreign policy agenda for about 16 months, rarely deviating from his core message. Current and former Obama advisers directed Yahoo News tothe president’s Dec. 7, 2013, appearance at the Saban Forum , an annual discussion of Middle East issues backed by the prestigious Brookings Institution. “He said most of what he’ll say there,” said one adviser to the president. That includes a description of what happens if the talks fail. “With respect to what happens if this breaks down, I won’t go into details,” Obama told the forum’s audience. “I will say that if we cannot get the kind of comprehensive end state that satisfies us and the world community and the P5-plus-1, then the pressure that we’ve been applying on them and the options that I’ve made clear I can avail myself of, including a military option, is one that we would consider and prepare for. And we’ve always said that. So that does not change.”
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 3/26/2015 10:41:22 AM
	Ukraine receives first batch of US Humvees 14 hours ago Ukrainian President and servicemen attend the delivery of armoured cars at Kiev airport on March 25, 2015 (AFP Photo/Sergei Supinsky) Related Stories Ukraine president says 64 soldiers killed since Feb 15 ceasefire AFP Ukraine's President Says Arms Withdrawal Is Almost Complete Huffington Post US to send Ukraine drones, more aid, but no lethal weapons Associated Press Ukraine's president says truce not working, urges more Russia sanctions: newspaperReuters Ukraine leader says truce deal 'not working'AFP Kiev (AFP) - Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko on Wednesday took delivery of ten US armoured vehicles, two days after American lawmakers voted to urge President Barack Obama to provide "lethal" aid to Kiev. Dressed in camouflage, the Ukraine leader thanked Washington for the 10 Humvees, the first of 30 promised by Washington, as they arrived at Kiev's Boryspil International Airport. In total, the US plans to send 200 regular Humvees, radios, counter-mortar radars and other non-lethal equipment worth $75 million. The US House of Representatives on Monday voted 348-48 in favour of putting pressure on Obama to ship "lethal defensive weapon systems" to help Kiev forces defend against Russian "aggression". Obama has so far resisted calls to provide Kiev with weapons and other heavy military equipment, but House Democrat Eliot Engel, the lead sponsor of the resolution, told colleagues it was time to stop treating the Ukraine crisis "as just some faraway conflict." The United Nations estimates that more than 6,000 people have been killed in fighting between Ukraine forces and pro-Russian separatists in the country's east since April. Kiev and its allies in the West accuse Russia of arming and spearheading the pro-Kremlin uprising, but Moscow denies the allegation. A ceasefire signed on February 12 has largely held despite sporadic fighting along the frontline.
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