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Ukraine aid:House leaders decided to vote Tuesday on the package, putting off an expected Friday vote.

Aidto cash-strappedUkraineand sanctions on Russia remain on track in the U.S. Congress, but it will take a few days longer before the legislation gets to President Barack Obama.

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House leaders decided to vote Tuesday on the package, putting off an expected Friday vote. Congressional aidessaid the decision by the International Monetary Fund on Thursday to release billions of dollars toUkraine lessened the urgency to act.

The delay ensures that House members will have a chance to go on record with a roll-call vote in backing the Senate version of the bill.

If signed into law, the bill would provide $1 billion in loan guarantees toUkraineand further sanction Russia for its annexation of Crimea.

"We must target those guilty of aggression againstUkraineand stand by our allies and friends to ensure peace and security in Europe," said Rep. Ed Royce, a Republican and chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Obama was wrapping up a three-country European trip during which he solicited support of allies in challenging Russia's moves inUkraine. The rare congressional unity contrasted with recent partisan divisions over theUkrainepackage, including disputes over new IRS regulations on groups claiming tax-exempt status and International Monetary Fund reforms.

In a retreat two days earlier, Senate Democrats backed down and stripped the IMF reform language from the bill, a defeat for the Obama administration, which had promoted the IMF provisions.

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Ukraine's interim president, Oleksandr Turchynov, has condemned the ultra-nationalist Right Sector after it protested outside parliament, saying the group is bent on "destabilization."

Nationalist groups have fueled Russian propaganda claims that Nazis and fascists are in control in Kyiv, an excuse Moscow used to annex Crimea. Many Ukrainians want to see them off the streets and quickly integrated into mainstream institutions.

Ukrainian nationalists protested outside parliament Friday waiting for a vote to remove Interior Minister Arsen Avakov from his post. One radical group, Right Sector, blames the minister for the shooting death of one of its more militant leaders this week in western Ukraine.

'Self-defense forces'

Dressed in military fatigues, some wore flak jackets and carried clubs, riot shields and even hatchets.

Ukraine's self-defense forces, formed during recent anti-government protests, lined up at the main entrance to prevent provocation.

The night before, enraged nationalists marched to the parliament demanding Avakov's immediate resignation. Some in the crowd tried to break into the building before parliamentarians calmed them down, promising a vote on whether he should keep his job.

On Friday, the vote was cancelled and an investigation promised, but radicals in the crowd reacted remarkably calmly.

Right Sector East political head Kiva Ilya said they only want justice.

Our task is to maintain calm and not to make the Russian government see the situation in Ukraine as out of control," he said. "The 'Right Sector' is on the side of law in all our actions.

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Posted on: 5:31 pm, March 28, 2014, by Elise Preston, updated on: 05:32pm, March 28, 2014

(Memphis) Knock out is a violent pastime that does exactly what is says knocks a person out.

A Whitehaven teenager is at home recovering, after being the target of the vicious game.

You could hear the beautiful harmonies and melodies of Whitehaven High students from across the street Friday.

But just Thursday, the high school was the scene of chaotic battleground, not a choir concert.

Outside Whitehaven High was the scene of a violent phenomenon sweeping the country.

Teens walk up to complete strangers and just knock them out. Its all a game to the attackers, called knock out.

Ive heard about it in New York, like upstate, said neighbor Ray McClain.

Police say the knock out game is now here in Memphis.

Two 18-year-olds, Jerrean Eason and Marcus Hopson, along with two teenage boys under 18, are the star players in a case where they are accused of beating a 17-year-old student leaving Whitehaven High Thursday.

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An unprovoked attack in Northwest Jacksonville left police unsure if it was another incident of the Knockout Game, according to the Sheriffs Office.

A Knockout Game is where a person attacks an unsuspecting victim in an attempt to render them unconscious with one punch.

Police released video of the Monday attack about 9:30 p.m. that shows a man walk up to a woman and start punching her in the head outside a Quickway Food Mart at 770 N. McDuff Ave.

The 39-year-old victim told police a different man had asked her for money but she said no. She went into the store and was ambushed by the other man as she left. She said she didnt know her attacker and did nothing to provoke him.

He then casually walked away with the other man.

In a separate incident Friday, a 16-year-old was arrested in an apparent Knockout Game that occurred in February at a Merrill Road Hess station. The 6-foot-2, 200-pound teenager attacked a 48-year-old disabled man, according to police.

Derek Gilliam: (904) 359-4619

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Possible 'Knockout Game' in Northwest Jacksonville food mart

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March 27, 2014 (CHICAGO) -- A sound engineer was riding his bike home in Humboldt Park early Saturday when he noticed two guys emerging from an alley, both crouching low.

"That's when I knew they were coming for me," said the 30-year-old man, who asked not to be named when speaking to the Chicago Sun-Times.

"Next thing I noticed, one of them had a machete," said the man, who was biking in the 2500 block of West Potomac, just west of Western, about 3 a.m. Saturday. "I tried to speed past them, but one of them swung the machete at my back wheel."

His bike came to a stop.

"And then the same guy punched me in the face."

An accomplice stood by and laughed while recording the attack on his camera phone.

"That's when I thought, 'Oh, well this guy's giggling, this is a joke to them. At least I'm not going to get murdered,' " said the man, who stood over his bike during the assault which lasted a little over a minute.

"Then the guy hit my back tire with the machete three or four more times and told me to 'Get the f - - - out of here.' . . . I sped away."

The men looked to be about 20 years old, the man said.

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