Ukraine Activists Battle Police for Second Night in Kiev
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Ukrainian anti-government activists battled police in the capital, Kiev, for a second night as new laws to subdue demonstrations took effect today.
Demonstrators yesterday bombarded police with projectiles including Molotov cocktails using a makeshift catapult. Police, firing rubber bullets and smoke bombs, dismantled the wooden contraption at about 4 a.m., with 32 protesters detained, Interfax news service reported. The government’s official newspaper published laws passed by pro-Yanukovych lawmakers on Jan. 16 to restrict protesters’ activities, enacting the measures that sparked the latest clashes, Interfax said.