'Fragile' Cease-Fire Holds in Ukraine

Ukraine's president says a "fragile" cease-fire is actually in place for the first time in his country's seven-month conflict between government troops and Russian-back separatists.  Petro Poroshenko said Friday that 24 hours had passed without any deaths or injuries of his soldiers. Poroshenko said if the cease-fire held it would be "a great step for peace and stability in Ukraine." The president called for the truce Tuesday in a bid to revive a...

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