Ukraine's top prosecutor 'escapes assassination':
A top Ukrainian prosecutor says unknown assailants have attempted to kill Prosecutor-General Viktor Shokin.
Deputy Prosecutor-General Anatoliy Matios said on November 3 that three bullets were shot at Shokin's office late on November 2 from a nearby building.
Bulletproof glass on the office windows saved Shokin's life, he said.
Matios added that the shots were aimed at Shokin's head and body.
Shokin was appointed by President Petro Poroshenko in February. He has faced accusations of stalling high-profile corruption cases against allies of former President Viktor Yanukovych, who was toppled by pro-European protests in February 2014.
In September, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, publicly accused the Prosecutor-General's Office of obstructing efforts to combat corruption and shielding its own employees from graft investigations. (UNIAN, Interfax)
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Gov't forces, rebels in eastern Ukraine report fighting
MOSCOW (AP) -- Government and separatist forces in eastern Ukraine are both reporting renewed fighting.
The press office of the Ukrainian government operation there said on Tuesday that Russia-backed rebels shelled its positions outside the rebel stronghold of Donetsk throughout the night with grenade launchers. The rebel mouthpiece Donetsk News Agency accused government troops of attacking their positions there with tanks.
A truce between the rebels and Kiev, which was announced on Sept. 1, has largely held, although little progress has been achieved to bring about a political settlement to the military conflict that has claimed more than 8,000 lives since it began in April 2014.