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    Two gunmen shot and killed a leading Ukrainianreporter Thursday. Ukraine's interior ministryreported that Oles Buzina, chief editor of thenewspaper Segodnya, was killed near his home inKyiv.

　　Mr. Buzina was known for his pro-Russia positions.

　　On Wednesday, a former Ukrainian lawmaker also known as pro-Russian, was killed in a similarattack. That shooting also happened near his home in Ukraine's capital.

　　Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Mr. Buzina was killed for political reasons.

　　Putin says Russian economy could improve in two years

　　Russian President Vladimir Putin took part in a live nationwide call-in show Thursday. Thetelevised show is a yearly event in which Putin takes questions from Russian citizens.

　　Thursday's callers discussed the country's economy, U.S.-Russia relations, the conflict ineastern Ukraine, and the murder of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov.

　　Russia's central bank has predicted the country's economy will shrink by as much as 5 percentthis year. But on Thursday, Mr. Putin said he believes Russia's economy could increase again inless than two years.

　　Al-Qaida captures major airport in southern Yemen

　　Al-Qaida militants have taken control of a major airport in Yemen's southern port of Mukalla.Officials say the al-Qaida fighters faced little military resistance.

　　Mukalla is the capital of Yemen's largest province, Hadramawt.

　　The militants also won control of a major oil center and sea port in southern Yemen.

　　US CEO cuts own pay to increase employees' pay

　　The leader of a credit card payments company in the western U.S. city of Seattle is reducing hisown yearly earnings to increase employee pay.

　　Dan Price, the owner of Gravity Payments, told his employees this week that he will cut his $1million per year salary to $70,000. He will use that savings as well as company profits to make itpossible for every employee to earn a salary of $70,000.

　　The company currently pays an average of $48,000 a year to its 120 employees.

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