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Cameron offers more Typhoons for Nato air mission

Britain will offer another two Typhoon warplanes to patrol the skies of eastern Europe amid continuing tensions with Russia over the Ukraine cris, David Cameron has said.

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One killed as Ukraine forces disperse crowd

One man was shot dead and a second was wounded when the Ukrainian National Guard tried to disperse a crowd outside a municipal building in the eastern Ukrainian town of Krasnoarmeisk, which lies north-east of the city of Donetsk.

Armed pro-Russian separatists take position outside the police barracks in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk Credit: AA / TT/TT News Agency/Press Association Images

The Interfax-Ukraine news agency quoted witnesses as saying the incident occurred when members of the Guard's "Dnipr" battalion fired shots as a crowd tried to block their entry into the building.

Video taken at the building appeared to show a crowd dispersing as shots rang out, although It was unclear where the shots came from, reported Reuters.

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