• Ukraine said seven soldiers had been killed since Saturday in an uptick in fighting with Russian-backed separatists in the Donbas region. [Kyiv Post]

• Finland’s prime minister wants to form a new government. He said he could no longer govern with the True Finns party, a nationalist junior partner, after it chose a new far-right leader. [Yle]

• Hungary’s lawmakers are set to vote today on a law regulating nongovernmental organizations, which critics say seeks to stifle independent groups. [Agence France-Presse]

• Trans-Atlantic differences over climate change did not narrow at a meeting of environmental ministers. Fledgling German efforts to build a united front against the U.S. reveal Berlin’s relative weakness. [Der Spiegel]

• A Doha businessman is flying thousands of cows into Qatar to restore milk supplies amid an embargo by the emirate’s neighbors. [Bloomberg]

• More than 10 percent of the world’s population is obese, according to a new study. Broadly, obesity was found to be spreading fastest in Latin America, Africa and China. [The New York Times]

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