Ukraine signs Russian gas transit deal

The Ukraine has signed a deal to allow the exchange of Russian gas supplies to Europe, according to the Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko." "We signed the protocol today," Tymoshenko said after talks with Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek in the Ukrainian capital...

Strange statues around the world

"Frogner Park, Oslo, Norway (thanks Stenar, jac). Sculpture by Gustav Vigeland."

Ukraine set for $16.5bn IMF loan, Strauss-Kahn pledges billions everywhere

The Bush policy for a new conflict with Russia. Preparing NATO membership of Ukraine will end in nowhere. The $17bn loan?, donation is lost in a not functioning economy. " The International Monetary Fund...

Somali pirates may extend deadline, before destroying ship with crewmembers

Somali pirates holding an arms-laden Ukrainian tanker off Somalia may extend the deadline on their threat to destroy the vessel with the crewmembers, a spokesman said Monday. " In Kiev, angry relatives of the...

Somali pirates hijack Ukrainain ship loaded with tanks

" Somali pirates have seized a Ukrainian ship carrying more than 30 tanks to Kenya and Russia said on Friday it was sending a warship to combat piracy in the region. The U.N. World Food Program said Canada had...

Cheney seeks to bolster Ukraine

USA is still meddling and still blaming Russia for the war Georgia started truthfully it buggers belief.  This is obvously going down the wrong path.  "US Vice-President Dick Cheney is in Ukraine on the last stop on his tour of the region aimed at showing support...

Ukraine parliament examines floods after 30 dead

The Ukrainian parliament is now examining the damage that the flooding has caused to their country, after 30 people have died and 18,000 have been evacuated. It rained for five days and caused the rivers to spill...

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...

Bush to back Ukraine's Nato hopes

As expected, George Bush will back Ukraine and Georgia's bid to join the North American Treaty Organisation."US President George W Bush is set to offer backing to Ukraine's membership of Nato as he starts a...

Deadline looms in Ukraine gas row

"Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko is in Moscow to try to persuade Russia not to cut gas supplies to his country in a dispute over an unpaid bill. He has just a few hours with President Vladimir Putin to settle the row over a demand by Russian gas monopoly Gazprom for...

Liberal accuses: Getting into Canada Harder for Some Immigrants

Liberal Member of Parliament accused the Conservative Government of Discrimination over it's immigration wait times policy where Immigrants from China are processed faster (4 months) in coming to Canada, yet is a...

Five die in Ukraine plane crash near Kiev

"Five people have died in a plane crash near the Ukrainian capital Kiev, the country's Emergency Situations Ministry says. The small plane was a charter flight travelling from the Czech Republic, the ministry...

Ukrainian Sixth Parliament session begins

Ukrainian Sixth Parliament session beginsNews Type: Event — Sun Nov 25, 2007 2:40 PM ISTworld-news, ukarineNaresh kumar sagar  Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine resigned to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of...

Turkey to knock Stuffing out of Kurdish Rebels.

Turkey on the move, against US governments protests has sent troops along it's Southern Border with Iraq to quash Kurdish Rebels along it's own borders."SIRNAK, Turkey -- Turkey said on Monday eight of its...

Platini warns Ukraine on Kiev Stadium for 2012

""The partial blockage of exits from the stadium and its emergency routes, plus the limited area in which spectators can move about significantly raises the threat of poor security for fans," the site quoted Platini as saying in his letter. "The conclusion leaves no doubt:...

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