BBC News with Jerry Smit
Ukraine's acting President Olexander Turchynov has called on Ukraine security agencies to relaunch what he called anti-terrorist measures in eastern Ukraine. Mr. Turchvnov said the mutilated bodies of two men have been found outside the town of Sloviansk, which is under the control of pro-Russian forces. Steve Rosenberg reports.
In a statement on the website of the Ukraine's parliament, Mr.Turchynov said the terrorists had taken Donetsk region hostage and begun to torture and to kill Ukrainian patriots. Crime, he said Which have been carried out for the full support of Russia. Mr.Turchynov announced that the two bodies have been discovered near the town of Sloviansk. He claimed they have been brutally tortured. One of the victims is said to be a local politician from the town of Horlivka.
The American Vice President Joe Biden who's in Kiev has said that Russian must stop talking and start acting to defuse the Ukraine crisis. The US Vice President's visit is designed to show Washington strong backing for Ukraine's interim government.
Members of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee are also visiting the region. One member of the delegation Congressman, Eliot Engel, said it was important the ties between Ukraine and Western nations remains strong.
We believe that the United States and Ukraine have a future together and the Untied States wants to encourage Ukraine to take the path of the democracy, we are very harden by what we saw the people getting up and X the repression and we believe the Ukraine's future in the West and we want to keep Ukraine looking westward rather than eastward.
The founder of Russia's largest social network site VKontakte has fled the country after being forced out of his job by the security services. Pavel Durov, who said is regarded as the Russian version of Facebook, said that allies of the President Putin have taken over the network. Tom Esslemont reports from Moscow.
Ominously, Mr. Durov says he was asked to hand over the identities of the four contacted users who had played the role in the Maidan protests in Ukraine earlier this year. It's something he refused to do, saying he would never betray his clients. Mr. Durov who'd already tended and then apparently rescinded his resignation, says he'd read about his final dismissal from the company in the media. He says now he has now plans to return. And so, he joins a growing number of journalists, opposition activists and other critics of the Kremlin, opting to leave Russia in a phase of what he is saying as the tighter controls on freedom of expression in the country.
The United States says it's deploying 600 troops to Poland and three Baltic countries which border Russia to fulfill what Washington calls its commitments to its security obligations in Europe. A Pentagon spokesman said the troops will start arriving on Wednesday and will take part in what it called bilateral exercises.
World News from the BBC
All climbing on Mount Everest is said to come to a halt four days after an avalanche killed 16 Sherpa mountain guides. Sherpas at Everest base camp are said to be discussing the latest government offer a compensation for the families of their colleague. The Nepalese authorities increased the proposed sum after Sherpas have rejected an initial offer of $400 to each family.
The Untied States and countries bordering the Pacific have reached agreement on a code of conduct at sea that's designed to reduce the chance of accidental clashes. The tensions high between China and neighboring countries over disputed islands, the agreement is designed to increase communication between ships in crowded shipping lanes.
France has condemned an Islamic group in Mali which has announced the death of a French hostage kidnapped in November,2012. The group, an offshoot of al-Qaeda, told the France news agency that Gilberto Rodrigues Leal was dead because France was their enemy.
The Vatican has dismissed allegations that John Paul II turned a blind eye towards one of Church' most damaging, sexual abuse scandals. David Willey is in Rome.
The Priests in charge of the canonisation process of the late Pope shrugged off accusations that the new saint failed to grasp the seriousness of the sexual abuse crisis that became public knowledge in the last years of his pontificate. Pope John Paul will be declared the saint on Sunday at Vatican ceremony expected to attract more than a million people. He's being fast-tracked to sainthood, only nine years after his death, and all-time record. Since John Paul's death in 2005, embarrassing details have leaked out about the extent of one particular, clerical sexual abuse crisis, which caused serious harm to the Church's image.