Filipino wins top honors in 2008 ‘Hollywood Olympics’

" LOS ANGELES - Thirteen-year-old Filipino Catherine Loria from Tiaong, Quezon shared honors with senior contestant Andrew Clarke from Jamaica when they were proclaimed Grand Champion Performers of the World in the 2008 World Championships of Performing Arts (WCOPA) or the...

Floods kill 16 in eastern Europe

This is a developing story. We welcome your news, comments, or relevant photos.Heavy floods, the worst in a century according to Russia Today, have killed 16 people in western Ukraine and northern...

Ukrainians protest NATO military training in Black Sea

NATO troops had to deal with anger and threats from hundreds of Ukrainian locals during the NATO-Ukrainian Sea Breeze military training ("war games") in Black Sea yesterday. Protesters threw stones at the military...

Racism in Ukraine

Some photos have been made in the underground of capital of Ukraine. On them the announcement on a door of the car is visible. On a leaf of a paper are represented the woman with the child. And the inscription in...

Last of Saddam Hussein's Nuclear Program Removed from Iraq

Canadian Company Benefits in Uranium Sale I am sure you will see this all over the Main Stream Media.  The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program — a huge stockpile of concentrated natural...

The Ukrainian 'genocide by starvation'

" Grigori Garaschenko remembers seeing his classmates starve slowly to death in a famine that killed millions of people in Ukraine. A neighbour driven mad by hunger killed her six-year-old daughter and began to...

Are The Eastern Catholics and Orthodox Church Heading For Unification?

"Reports are circulating, in circles which are intensely attuned to the continued warming of relations between the Orthodox and Catholic Churches, of a statement and proposal allegedly made by Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople."

Even 350 Year-Old Wounds Never Completely Heal

If there was any doubt that George Orwell got it right when he said, "who controls the past controls the future", this could be the clincher."A 350-year-old cavalry battle has become the latest irritant between Russia and its neighbor Ukraine after Russia's foreign ministry...

24 Ukrainian miners found alive after huge blast

" TWENTY-FOUR miners have been found alive more than 24 hours after they were trapped deep underground by a huge Ukrainian coalmine explosion.One miner was found dead 750m underground.The survivors have been...

24 miners rescued from stricken Ukrainian mine

UPDATE  21:34 GMT  June  9th Most of the miners caught in the gas explosion at a Ukrainian mine has been rescued alive."A total of 24 miners have now been brought to the surface and are being...

Ukrainian Mine Blast: 37 Missing

So far, only unmanned gondolas have been sent down to find any survivors of a gas explosion that collapsed a mine in Yenakiyevo, Ukraine. Previously, the mine had beem lited as unsafe."Thirty-seven miners were missing after a gas explosion tore through a pit in Ukraine's...

Medvedev warns Ukraine over Nato

The newly-seated Russian President rattles the saber at Ukraine over its Nato bid, and raising fuel export prices at the same time. It's difficult to see the latter as anything but a warning shot."Mr Medvedev told...

Greek Government knew about tainted cooking oil for two months yet failed to act

Just days after the Greek authorities announced a recall of tainted cooking oil the issue has turned into an publicity nightmare for the conservative New Democracy government when it was revealed that they had...

Russia could claim Crimea if Ukraine joins NATO - MP

"NATO decided at its recent summit in Romania not to offer Ukraine and Georgia the chance to join a program that would have put them on the track to join the military alliance, but promised that the decision would be reviewed in December. The ex-Soviet republics had received...

Russia to increase security if Georgia, Ukraine join NATO

This is very typical Russian political behaviour. "MOSCOW, April 11 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will be forced to strengthen security on its borders if Georgia and Ukraine join NATO, Army General Yury Baluyevsky, chief...

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