[ti:Ukrainian Reporter Shot Dead in Kyiv]
[ar:]
[al:In The News]
[by:www.21voa.com]
[00:00.00]Two gunmen shot and killed a leading Ukrainian reporter Thursday. 
[00:06.00]Ukraine's interior ministry reported that Oles Buzina, 
[00:11.04]chief editor of the newspaper Segodnya, 
[00:14.75]was killed near his home in Kyiv.
[00:17.34]Mr. Buzina was known for his pro-Russia positions.
[00:21.43]On Wednesday, a former Ukrainian lawmaker also known as pro-Russian, 
[00:27.53]was killed in a similar attack. 
[00:30.22]That shooting also happened near his home in Ukraine's capital.
[00:34.47]Russian President Vladimir Putin said 
[00:38.08]that Mr. Buzina was killed for political reasons.
[00:42.02]Russian President Vladimir Putin 
[00:45.71]took part in a live nationwide call-in show Thursday. 
[00:49.86]The televised show is a yearly event 
[00:53.26]in which Putin takes questions from Russian citizens.
[00:57.62]Thursday's callers discussed the country's economy, 
[01:01.37]U.S.-Russia relations, the conflict in eastern Ukraine, 
[01:05.98]and the murder of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov.
[01:10.12]Russia's central bank has predicted the country's economy 
[01:14.96]will shrink by as much as 5 percent this year. 
[01:19.22]But on Thursday, Mr. Putin said he believes Russia's economy 
[01:24.81]could increase again in less than two years.
[01:29.32]Al-Qaida militants have taken control of a major airport 
[01:33.56]in Yemen's southern port of Mukalla. 
[01:37.20]Officials say the al-Qaida fighters faced little military resistance.
[01:43.45]Mukalla is the capital of Yemen's largest province, Hadramawt.
[01:49.10]The militants also won control of a major oil center 
[01:54.40]and sea port in southern Yemen.
[01:57.23]The leader of a credit card payments company in the western U.S. city of Seattle 
[02:04.52]is reducing his own yearly earnings to increase employee pay.
[02:10.26]Dan Price, the owner of Gravity Payments, 
[02:14.55]told his employees this week 
[02:16.75]that he will cut his $1 million per year salary to $70,000. 
[02:23.56]He will use that savings as well as company profits 
[02:27.90]to make it possible for every employee to earn a salary of $70,000.
[02:34.84]The company currently pays an average of $48,000 a year to its 120 employees.