Government Seige

• Eastern Ukrainians Flee as Army Suffers Losses

  Ukraine's president vowed vengeance in blood after 19 troops were killed in an insurgent rocket attack Friday, and residents of the rebel-held city of Donetsk began fleeing in large numbers for fear of a government siege.

• Kabul hotel standoff over, all attackers dead: Government

  A Taliban assault on a hotel on the outskirts of Kabul is over, an Afghan interior ministry spokesman said on Friday, almost 12 hours after it began.