Heavy gunfire and fatalities reported near eastern Ukraine’s Slovyansk (LIVE BLOG)
A protester throws a petrol bomb at the trade union building in Odessa May 2, 2014. At least 30 people were killed in a fire on Friday in the trade union building in the center of Ukraine’s southern port city of Odessa, regional police said.
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