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Western diplomats head to Kiev after nightlong confrontations in Ukrainian capital
• KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- Top Western diplomats headed to Kiev Tuesday to try to defuse a stand-off between President Viktor Yanukovych's government and thousands of demonstrators, following a night in which police in riot gear dismantled protesters' encampments outside government buildings.
• Demonstrators have occupied the Ukrainian capital for weeks opposing Yanukovych's decision to freeze ties with the European Union and tilt to Russia instead.
• Riot police in full gear flooded Kiev, confronting protesters through the night on snow-slicked streets, while a leading opposition party said heavily armed security forces broke into its offices and seized computer servers.
• Yanukovych planned to meet on Tuesday with Ukraine's three former presidents in a search for a resolution to the crisis.
• An opposition leader, Oleh Tyanhybok, was quoted by Ukrainian media as saying several protesters were injured in one of the confrontations, in which police tore down small tent camps locking access to government buildings. There were no immediate official figures on injuries, but the incident appeared to be less violent than the club-swinging police dispersals of demonstrators a week and a half ago that galvanized anger.
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Newtown's year in mourning: Horror and grief, tough choices, and efforts to begin moving on
• NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) -- A year later, inside the big house on Berkshire Road, dolls fill the shelves of a living room and flowers and rainbows decorate a kitchen window, next to a little girl's name: Avielle.
• Outside, all around town, Christmas lights shimmer again. But so, too, do the 26 bronze stars that sit atop the local firehouse, one for each adult and child gunned down at a school one unimaginable day.
• In so many ways, this is a place frozen in time. Ribbons of green -- the Sandy Hook Elementary school color -- stay tied to mailboxes and storefronts, just as a curly-haired girl smiles from a framed photograph that remains atop a mantel inside Jeremy Richman's century-old home.
• People might assume the hurt that accompanies tragedy fades with time. But, (Continued on page 22)
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