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Wednesday 21 March 2018
Ukrainian lawmakers must leave guns outside parliament

MOSCOW (AP) — Ukraine's automatic weapons. later and has supported a ing a pistol and three hand real threat. Savchenko said
parliament on Tuesday The accusations followed separatist insurgency fight- grenades when she attend- she talked about such at-
approved a bill requir- Savchenko's claim that Lut- ing the government in east- ed a parliamentary session tacks as a "political provo-
ing lawmakers to lock up senko was covering up the ern Ukraine since then. last week. Savchenko said cation to make the govern-
their guns before entering killings of protesters during Savchenko, a former mili- she needed the weapons ment look ridiculous" and
the chamber. The bill that Ukraine's 2014 uprising. tary pilot who became a to protect herself. "make the government re-
obliges lawmakers to leave Unidentified snipers killed national icon after spend- Commenting on the top alize they are mortals."
weapons and explosives in dozens of people on the ing two years in a Russian prosecutor's accusations She added that she was
lockers follows last week's Maidan in February 2014, prison, told reporters Tues- against her, she acknowl- aware that people whom
statement by Prosecutor triggering public anger day that the administration edged that she had dis- she had discussed the
General Yuriy Lutsenko, and leading to the ouster of President Petro Porosh- cussed plans to attack the plans for attack with would
who accused lawmaker of President Viktor Yanu- enko was planning to kill country's leaders but de- report them to the security
Nadiya Savchenko, of plot- kovych. Russia respond- her. scribed them as being in- agencies, and emphasized
ting an attack on parlia- ed by annexing Ukraine's Ukrainian media reported tended to make a mockery that she had no intention to
ment with grenades and Crimean Peninsula a month that Savchenko was carry- of the government, not a carry them out.q

Rocket attack on Syrian capital kills 35 people

PHILIP ISSA On Monday, the militants
BEIRUT (AP) — Rockets fired pounced on Qadam from
on a market in a govern- the neighboring Hajr al-As-
ment-controlled neigh- wad and Yarmouk neigh-
borhood of Damascus on borhoods, which they con-
Tuesday killed 35 people trol. More than 1,000 rebels
and wounded more than and their families had ear-
20 others, Syrian state-run lier fled Qadam for rebel-
media said, marking one of held territory in the north of
the highest death tolls in a the country, instead of sub-
single attack targeting the mitting to the Damascus
capital. authorities. There was no
The government blamed comment from the Syrian
rebels in the eastern sub- government following the
urbs of Damascus for the IS seizure of Qadam.
attack on the Kashkol The government's assault
neighborhood. The capi- on eastern Ghouta has
tal, seat of President Bashar displaced 45,000 people,
Assad's power, has come the United Nations said
under increasing attack as Tuesday, while tens of
government forces con- This photo shows Civil Defense workers putting out a fire following airstrikes and shelling in Douma, thousands more are living
tinue to pound rebel-held in the eastern Ghouta region near Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, March 20,2018. The U.N. refugee in desperate conditions
agency says 45,000 Syrians have left their homes in the besieged region of eastern Ghouta in
eastern Ghouta, with mili- recent days, amid a Syrian government-led offensive against the rebel-held area. in northern Syria, where a
tary backing from Russia. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP) Turkish military campaign is
With government forces underway.
tied up in the monthlong neighborhood of Qadam ian Observatory for Human — and where it had pro- In eastern Ghouta, rescue
offensive on eastern Gh- late Monday, a week after Rights. It said dozens more claimed its self-styled "ca- workers were still retriev-
outa, Islamic State militants rebels had surrendered it to were captured or wound- liphate" — but it retains ing bodies from the base-
seized a neighborhood on the government. At least ed. pockets of control in ar- ment of a school that was
its southern edge, forcing 36 soldiers and pro-govern- Last year, the Islamic State eas across Syria, including bombed Monday by gov-
the government to rush in ment militiamen were killed group lost the swath of ter- two neighborhoods on the ernment or Russian jets, a
reinforcements. in the clashes, according ritory it had controlled in southern edge of Damas- spokesman for the Syrian
IS militants captured the to the Britain-based Syr- eastern Syria since 2014 cus. Civil Defense group said.q

Japan cult members could be hanged any day for subway attack

By MARI YAMAGUCHI plastic bags to release sa- sumigaseki station, a main The relocation of seven of in Japan, when and where
Associated Press rin nerve gas inside subway target of the cult. Shizue the cult members to five they will be killed isn’t be-
TOKYO (AP) — Thirteen Jap- cars, killing 13 people and Takahashi, the 71-year-old detention centers outside ing released, even to fam-
anese cult members may sickening thousands. Cult widow of an assistant sta- of Tokyo last week has ily members and lawyers.
be sent to the gallows any leader Shoko Asahara and tionmaster who died in the sparked speculation that The executions won’t be
day now for a deadly 1995 a dozen followers were attack, and the current sta- executions could be immi- announced until they have
gas attack on the Tokyo sentenced to death for tion master placed flowers nent. In Japan, accomplic- already happened.
subway system and other that and other crimes that on a temporary altar set up es in a crime are custom- Takahashi recently asked
crimes. But when is uncer- killed 27 in all. Their sen- for offerings. arily hanged on the same the Justice Ministry for a
tain. Such is the secrecy tences date back as far as “It seems the (legal) pro- day. Ten of those on death chance to meet the con-
that surrounds Japan’s 20 years. Tuesday at 8 a.m. cess has entered a next row were convicted for the victs and witness their ex-
death penalty system. — around the time of the stage,” Takahashi told re- subway attack, a number ecutions. “I want to follow
Tuesday marked 23 years attack — uniformed sub- porters. “I hope (execu- beyond the Tokyo deten- through to the very end,”
since members of the Aum way employees lowered tions) are carried out in ac- tion center’s daily capac- Takahashi said at a recent
Shinrikyo cult punctured their heads in silence at Ka- cordance with the law.” ity. As with all executions news conference.q