Latest from our news desk:
The White House says U.S. President Donald Trump and his lawyers won’t participate in an impeachment hearing at the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives this week.
From our news desk overnight:
-- The 3-year-old son of a regional Ukrainian lawmaker and businessman on December 1 died from a gunshot wound in central Kyiv, according to local media reports.
-- A Ukrainian journalist in the southern port city of Mykolayiv on November 30 was hospitalized after a lone assailant sprayed a liquid substance into his eyes and hit him several times in the face and head while he was returning home.
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