Pro-Russian activists occupying the police station in the eastern Ukraine town of Slovyansk on April 12 (Efrem Lukatsky/AP)
 

1 dead, several wounded in eastern Ukraine raid

A Ukrainian officer is killed as troops engage pro-Russian separatists in the region's first reported gun battle.  The activists' demands »

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