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Kiev and Moscow agree to a permanent ceasefire in a region of eastern Ukraine... according to Ukraine′s President Petro Poroshenko... who said he hammered out the deal in a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
IS militants release a new video of the second journalist to be beheaded and taped on camera. The release of the footage came with a warning to President Obama to halt airstrikes in Iraq.
President Park underscores her push to revive the economy and create new jobs... by moving ahead with deregulation reforms and clamping down on unnecessary bureaucracy.
Prime Time News begins now.
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Live from Seoul... I′m Sean Lim.
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Title: Putin, Poroshenko agree on ′permanent ceasefire′ in Donbass region
We start off in Ukraine,... where a much anticipated step to establish peace in the eastern part of the country has been reached.... Kiev says that President Petro Poroshenko... and Russian President Vladimir Putin... have agreed on a permanent ceasefire in the region.
Poroshenko′s press office announced that he and Putin... reached the agreement over the phone, for a ceasefire in the Donbass region.
That area includes the cities of Donetsk and Luhansk,... which have been the center of the heaviest fighting between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces.
Earlier, Putin′s spokesman... Dmitry Peskov... made a similar statement, saying the two... largely coincided on what needed to be done to resolve Ukraine′s six-month-old crisis.
However, the spokesman made no mention of a ceasefire,... saying that Russia was not a party to the conflict to begin with... and therefore... cannot physically agree to it.
Regarding the matter, U.S. President Barack Obama said it′s too early to tell what the ceasefire means... and that the halt could only be effective if Russia stopped pretending it was not active in the conflict.
There was no immediate sign of stopped fighting between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian rebels in the region.
Title: President Park follows up on government′s deregulation efforts
Back in March, President Park Geun-hye held a rare, seven-hour televised meeting to stress the need for regulatory reforms to spur growth.
She checked back on progress earlier today, but wasn′t satisfied with the pace of deregulation.
Our Choi You-sun reports.
"We will ease those regulations next year."
"Next year?"
"We would need to revise the law."
"But isn′t there a regulation that allows it if there′s a minor pollution?"
Following up on the government′s deregulation efforts, President Park impelled officials to actively carry through the reforms.
She urged the government and parliament to swiftly pass related bills so that Korea doesn′t miss an opportunity to pull itself out from an economic slowdown.
The government said it
