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Bangkok is under tightened security in Bangkok Saturday, as anti-government protesters moved on state-run telecommunications offices in the Thai capital in their latest bid to topple the government.

The city police said the protesters also plan to surround the headquarters of the national and city police, Government House and even a zoo.

More than 1,000 protesters briefly stormed into army headquarters Friday in an attempt to convince the military to join their efforts to topple the government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.

The United States has advised American commercial airlines to notify Beijing of flight plans over China's newly-declared air defense identification zone, although U.S. officials say the compliance does not indicate U.S. government acceptance of China's requirements.

The Chinese Defense Ministry declared last week that all aircraft in the zone must identify themselves and obey Chinese orders.

Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif travels in Kabul Friday to hold "in-depth" consultations with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on how to promote bilateral relations and Afghan peace efforts.

This will be Mr. Sharif's first official trip to Afghanistan since his election after May's parliamentary polls.

Iraqi officials are investigating a series of attacks—including the abduction and murders of 18 people in a predominately Sunni region—that have killed at least 29 people. 

Investigators found the bullet-ridden bodies of the 18 kidnapping victims on Friday in a farming region near Baghdad including several security officers and at least one tribal chief.

The European Union has criticized Russia for pressuring Ukraine into abandoning a landmark free trade deal with the European bloc.

The snub, announced last week by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, reverberated through an EU summit in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, where German Chancellor Angela Merkel was captured Friday on video telling the Ukrainian, "We expected more."

Henry Ridgwell has this story.

After decades of Soviet rule followed by a high degree of economic dependence on Russia, many Ukranians remain unsure about the future of their country.

Millions of Ukrainians starved to death under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.

The mayor of the village, Grigory Timofiyovych, says that history is not forgotten.

The mayor says,"Everyone condemns what happened in 1933 but nobody holds modern Russia guilty.Much of the agricultural produce—potatoes and corn—is traded with Russia."

Mayor Timofiyovych says people fear turning away from Ukraine’s big neighbor to the east.

"The economy is suffering," he said. "Perhaps people do have a better standard of life in the EU, but breaking ties with Russia would not be right."

Henry Ridgwell VOA News,eastern UKRAINE

Officials in Mozambique say a plane carrying 34 people has gone missing while traveling from Mozambique to Angola.

The Mozambique Airlines flight was scheduled to land in the Angolan capital, Luanda, on Friday afternoon, but never arrived.