Ukrainian protesters have blockaded buildings and camped on Kiev's central square in a bid to oust the government after police brutality and a row over an EU pact plunged the nation into its worst crisis in a decade.
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NEW YORK - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says a subway train that derailed, killing four passengers and wounding 67 others, was probably travelling too fast.
GENEVA - Evidence has been uncovered in Syria implicating President Bashar al-Assad and members of his entourage, in war crimes and crimes against humanity, UN human rights chief Navi Pillay says.
BANGKOK - A Thai court has issued an arrest warrant for protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban for "insurrection" over his attempt to topple the government, police say.
LONDON - Witnesses who saw the murder of an off-duty British soldier on a London street have described how two suspects repeatedly stabbed the victim with knives and a meat cleaver in a frenzied attack.
PARIS - French police have arrested 45 people in a vast sweep against international arms traffickers.
LONDON - Australian human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson is leading a push for a key figure in the Profumo affair to be exonerated 50 years after he was convicted on pimping charges.
