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ByMariaDanilova The Associated Press KIEV, UKraInE Themayor of Ukraine's second-larg- est city was shot in the back Monday and hundreds of men attacked a peaceful pro-Ukraine rally with ba - tons, bricks and stun gre- nades, wounding dozens as tensions soared in Ukraine's volatile east. One presidential candi - date said the mayor was de- liberately targeted in an ef- fort to destabilize the entire city of Kharkiv, a hub of 1.5 million people. Armed insurgents tacitly backed by Moscow are seek - ing more autonomy in east- ern Ukraine — and possibly even independence or annex- ation with Russia. Ukraine's acting government and the West have accused Rus- sia of orchestrating the un- rest, which they fear Mos- cow could use as a pretext for an invasion. Ratcheting up the pres- sure, President Barack Obama's government levied new sanctions on seven Rus- sian officials and 17 compa- nies with links to President Vladimir Putin's inner cir- cle. The U.S. also revoked licenses for some high-tech items that could be used by the Russian military. In Brussels, the European Union moved to add 15 more officials to its Russian sanc - tions list to protest Moscow's meddling in Ukraine. That decision, reached by the ambassadors to the EU's 28 nations, was being formally confirmed by the EU's gov - ernments, officials said. In the eastern city of Do- netsk, about 1,000 demon- strators carrying Ukrainian flags marched through the streets to hold a pro-Ukrai- nian rally Monday night. They were attacked by sev- eral hundred armed men shouting "Russia!" Policeattemptedtoholdthe pro-Russia men back but then largelystoodasideasdozensof protesters were battered. Hennady Kernes, the mayor of Kharkiv, was shot in the back Monday morn - ing while cycling on the out- skirts of the city, his office said. He underwent surgery and was reported by the hos- pital to be in "grave but sta- ble" condition. Officials have not com- mented on who could be be- hind the attack on the mayor — but Kernes was a man who couldhaveangeredbothsides. Elsewhere in the east, pro-Russia militants wear - ing masks gained another foothold, seizing a city hall building and police station in the city of Kostyantynivka, 100 miles from the Russian border. Moscow has repeat - edly pushed for a referen- dum on federal autonomy in Ukraine, but Kiev and its Western allies have re- fused, accusing Russia of fomenting separatist senti- ment to foil the May presi- dential vote. The increasingly ruth- less pro-Russia insurgency, meanwhile, is turning to an ominous new tactic: kidnap- ping. About 40 people are being held hostage in make- shift jails in Slovyansk — including journalists, pro- Ukraine activists and seven military observers from the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe, Ukraine's Security Service said Monday. UKraInE Mayor shot; new sanctions announced By Maggie Michael The Associated Press MInYa,EgYpt An Egyptian judge sentenced to death the Muslim Brotherhood's spir- itual leader and 682 other people Monday in the lat- est in a series of high-stakes mass trials that have been unprecedented in scope, drawing sharp condem - nation from international rights groups. The verdicts — which were appealed by general prosecutor— come as the military-backed govern - ment has launched a massive crackdown against Islamist supporters of ousted leader Mohammed Morsi, under the banner of "war against terrorism" while tightening its grip on the Arab world's most populous nation. Suggesting there might be room for reversal, the same judge also reduced the sen - tences against 529 defen- dants indicted in a similar case in March, upholding the death penalty for only 37 and commuting the rest to life imprisonment. Still,thethreedozendeath sentences that were upheld was an extraordinarily high number for Egypt, com - pared to the dramatic trial in the wake of the 1981 assas- sination of President Anwar Sadat, when only five people were sentenced to death and executed. Judge Said Youssef said he was referring Monday's death sentences — which were for convictions of vi - olence and killing police- men — to the Grand Mufti, the nation's top Islamic offi- cial — a requirement under Egyptian law that is usu- ally considered a formality but also gives room for the judge to change his mind. Of the 683, all but 68 were tried in absentia. The government has con - ducted a series of mass tri- als of Brotherhood support- ers after a crackdown in which hundreds were killed and nearly 16,000 detained. It also branded the Broth - erhood a terrorist group, a claim the group denies. Several secular-minded youth activists have been im- prisoned for holding protests against a new law that pro- hibits the right to hold polit- ical gatherings without prior police permits. On Monday, a court ordered ban of April 6 youth group and confisca - tion of its offices. The group was among several that en- gineered the 2011 upris- ing against longtime leader Hosni Mubarak that set off nearly three-year turmoil. "Egypt's judiciary risks becoming just another part of the authorities' repres - sive machinery, issuing sen- tences of death and life im- prisonment on an industrial scale," Amnesty Internation- al's Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui said. EgYpt 683 people sentenced to death in another mass trial EfrEmLukatsky—thEassociatEdPrEss Pro-ukrainian activists wave ukrainian flags during pro- ukrainian rally in donetsk, ukraine, on monday. ahn young-joon — thE associatEd PrEss a police officer holds up an umbrella for a relative of a passenger aboard the sunken ferry sewol as he awaits news on his loved one at a port in jindo, south korea, on monday. By Hyung-Jin Kim The Associated Press JInDO, SOUtH KOrEa Div- ers on Monday renewed their search for more than 100 bodies still trapped in a sunken ferry after week - end efforts were hindered by bad weather, strong cur- rents and floating debris clogging the ship's rooms. Investigators, meanwhile, expanded a probe into how coast guard and other res - cuersrespondedafterlearn- ing the ferry was sinking. Divers found only one body Sunday after a week thatsawanincreasingnum - ber of corpses pulled from the ship as divers made their way through its laby- rinth of cabins, lounges and halls. The number of dead from the April 16 sinking is 188, with 114 people believed missing, though a govern - ment emergency task force has said the ship's passen- gers list could be inaccu- rate. Only 174 people sur- vived, including 22 of the 29 crew members. Senior coast guard offi- cer Kim Su-hyeon said that most of the remaining miss- ing passengers are believed to be in 64 of the ship's 111 rooms. Divers have entered 36 of those 64 rooms, coast guard officers said, but may need to go back into some because floating debris made it difficult for divers to be sure that there are no more dead bodies. Ko Myung-seok, an of - ficial with the emergency task force, said Monday that 92 divers were search- ing the ferry. He also said that the government was making plans to salvage the ferry once search ef - forts end but that details wouldn't be available until officials talk with families of the victims. OnSunday,SouthKorea's prime minister resigned over the government's han - dlingofthesinking,blaming "deep-rooted evils" in soci- ety for the tragedy. South Korean executive power is largely concen- trated in the president, so Chung Hong-won's resig- nation appears to be sym- bolic. Presidential spokes- man Min Kyung-wook said President Park Geun-hye would accept the resigna- tion, but did not say when Chung would leave office. Chung's resignation comes amid rising indigna - tion over claims by the vic- tims' relatives that the gov- ernment did not do enough to rescue or protect their loved ones. Most of the dead and missing were high school students on a school trip. Divers renew search for sunken ferry dead SOUtH KOrEa tuEsday, aPriL 29, 2014 rEdBLuffdaiLynEWs.com | NEWS | 5 B