Police Attack Pro-Western Protesters in Ukraine
Riot police violently broke up a pro-Western protest in the center of Ukraine’s capital Kyiv early Saturday, hours after President Viktor Yanukovych refused to sign a trade-and-political accord with the European Union.
Video broadcast by local media showed hundreds of police wading into a crowd of several hundred protesters, lashing out with batons and chasing people from the square. Bloodied protesters clutching their heads stumbled…