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UN Security Council passes resolution on combating sea piracy The UN Security Council on Monday voted unanimously to renew for twelve months authorization for measures to combat piracy off Somalia's coast.
Dec 1, 2009 at 23:52 | Interfax-Ukraine
Health ministry: nine die of flu, pneumonia in past 24 hours in Ukraine A total of 440 people have died of flu and respiratory diseases in Ukraine as of late on Tuesday, December 1.
Dec 1, 2009 at 23:45 | Interfax-Ukraine
Russia sheds light on murder that sparked purges ST PETERSBURG, Russia, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Russia on Tuesday published previously secret documents that shed light on a notorious murder 75 years ago that historians say sparked the purges of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.
Dec 1, 2009 at 23:24 | Reuters
NATO wants to discuss missile defense with Russia NATO plans to discuss missile defense problems with Russia at a NATO-Russia Council meeting on December 4, NATO Spokesman James Appathurai said in an interview with Interfax.
Dec 1, 2009 at 23:18 | Interfax-Ukraine
Football Federation of Ukraine ready to offer coach's job to Lucescu President of the Football federation of Ukraine Hryhoriy Surkis is ready to make an official offer to Shakhtar Donetsk football club's coach Mircea Lucescu to become a chief coach of the Ukrainian national football team.
Dec 1, 2009 at 22:39 | Interfax-Ukraine
Ukrainian museum claims it owns a Titian portrait The director of a Ukrainian museum claimed Tuesday that a portrait of a Venetian Doge in its collection is a work of Titian, even as an expert warned that art historians are best placed to make that call.
Dec 1, 2009 at 22:25
Presidential debates to take place on January 4-15 in Ukraine The Central Election Commission has adopted the procedure of holding the television debates between the candidates for Ukraine's presidency, which will be financed from the state budget's funds assigned for the National Television Company of Ukraine.
Dec 1, 2009 at 22:17 | Interfax-Ukraine
Central Election Commission registers first 110 observers to monitor Ukraine's presidential elections in 2010 The Central Election Commission has registered the first 110 international observers who will monitor the presidential elections in Ukraine.
Dec 1, 2009 at 21:54 | Interfax-Ukraine
Prosecutor to complete translation of Melnychenko's tapes by weekend The Prosecutor General's Office intends to eliminate inaccuracies in the translation into Ukrainian of the results of a phonographic examination of ex-State Security Service Major Mykola Melnychenko's tapes by the end of the week, following which the results of this examination could be published.
Dec 1, 2009 at 21:35 | Interfax-Ukraine
A senior Russian analyst on Tuesday argued that the planned new Russian-U.S. strategic weapons treaty would mean lower defense spending for Russia.
Dec 1, 2009 at 21:33 | Interfax-Ukraine
Officials: Obama asks up to 10,000 European troops President Barack Obama is asking European members of NATO to contribute up to 10,000 additional troops to the international force in Afghanistan, officials with the military alliance said Tuesday.
Dec 1, 2009 at 21:26
Russian security proposal gets cautious response American and European officials identified potential problems on Tuesday with Russia's proposal to overhaul security agreements spanning western and central Asian countries.
Dec 1, 2009 at 21:22
Nazi victims' families testify at Demjanjuk trial Rudolf Salomon Cortissos sobbed as he told a Munich court about the letter his mother had written on May 17, 1943 — four days before she was gassed in the Nazis' Sobibor death camp with some 2,300 other Dutch Jews.
Dec 1, 2009 at 21:15
Ukraine ready to chair Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe  in 2013 Ukraine's foreign minister Petro Poroshenko has confirmed Ukraine's readiness to chair the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in 2013.
Dec 1, 2009 at 20:58 | Interfax-Ukraine
Eurozone nations to agree debt reduction BRUSSELS (AP) — The 16 nations that use the euro are Dec. 1 expected to agree deadlines for most of them to reduce budget deficits that are well above the EU budget rules that underpin their currency.
Dec 1, 2009 at 19:57