Ukrainian PM Survives No Confidence Vote

Ukraine's prime minister survived a no confidence vote Tuesday, just hours after the country's president asked him to resign in the face of what is perceived as the government's failure to fight corruption and overcome an economic crisis. The motion to remove Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk received only 194 of the required 226 votes in Ukraine's 450-seat parliament. President Petro Poroshenko's surprise request followed opinion polls that showed growing public...

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