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Final News Summary For September 29
-- We have started a new Ukraine Live Blog. Find it here.
-- Ukraine is marking 75 years since the World War II massacre of 33,771 Jews on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Kyiv.
-- German Chancellor Angela Merkel has urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to stabilize a fragile cease-fire in Ukraine and do all he could to improve what Merkel called a "catastrophic humanitarian situation" in Syria.
-- Russia's Supreme Court has upheld a decision by a Moscow-backed Crimean court to ban the Mejlis, the self-governing body of Crimean Tatars in the occupied Ukrainian territory.
* NOTE: Times are stated according to local time in Kyiv (GMT/UTC +3)
The OSCE responds to a report by Andrew Kramer in The New York Times that suggested the organization's observers in eastern Ukraine were only out monitoring during "banking hours", thereby missing most of the hostilities, which usually occur at night:
