A pro-Russian separatist stands guard during the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic leadership and local parliamentary elections at a polling station in the settlement of Telmanovo, south from Donetsk November 2, 2014. REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev
Pro-Russian Rebels Name Leader In Ukraine As Crisis Deepens -- Reuters
(Reuters) - Pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine named a leader of their breakaway republic on Monday after a weekend election which was denounced by Kiev and the West and further deepened a standoff with Russia over the future of the former Soviet state.
Organizers of the vote said that Alexander Zakharchenko, a 38-year-old former mining electrician, had easily won election as head of the "Donetsk People's Republic", an entity proclaimed by armed rebels in the days after they seized key buildings in cities of Ukraine's Russian-speaking east last April.
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ASIA
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Abu Sayyaf militants kill 6 Filipino soldiers.
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Myanmar key players in rare roundtable talks.
AFRICA
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EUROPE
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AMERICAS
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