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European Radio Network: Flu epidemic causes panic in Ukraine Ukraine’s Health Minister Vasyl Knyazevych has announced a state of emergency after thirty-three people died from an unknown flu virus in western Ukraine near the Polish border.
Nov 1, 2009 at 17:29
Yushchenko instructs health ministry to provide extra ambulances for epidemic-hit Lviv President Victor Yushchenko has instructed the Health Ministry and governors of the regions where an anti-flu quarantine has not been introduced to provide extra ambulances to Lviv, one of the cities hardest hit by this week's flu epidemic. Yushchenko's press service announced this to Ukrainian News, citing the instructions he issued at a meeting on influenza in Lviv.
Nov 1, 2009 at 17:19 | Ukrainian News
Obama making final pitch of '09 elections WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is making a last-minute campaign appearance for New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine's re-election bid.
Nov 1, 2009 at 17:07
The Defense Ministry has suspended the recruitment of conscripts because of the A(H1N1) flu epidemic that has swifly and suddenly swept across the country.

Ihor Khaliavinskyi, the head of the press service of the Defense Ministry, told this to Ukrainian News.
Nov 1, 2009 at 16:37 | Ukrainian News
Interior Ministry, FBI crack down on international crime gang behind US visa scheme The chief economic crime department at Ukraine's Ministry of Interior Affairs and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have cracked down on an international crime group that was engaged in the forgery of visa documents which allowed Ukrainians to illegal enter the United States.
Nov 1, 2009 at 16:05 | Ukrainian News
Factbox: How Obama's Afghan strategy is shaping up Nov 1 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama's advisers appear to be laying the ground for a hybrid war strategy combining both counterinsurgency with counterterrorism in Afghanistan that would entail a troop increase next year.
Nov 1, 2009 at 15:55 | Reuters
Yushchenko: Flu situation to stabilize by Nov. 7 President Victor Yushchenko hopes the situation with the A(H1N1) flu epidemic and other acute respiratory viral infections in Ukraine will stabilize within five or seven days.

Ukrainian News learned this from a statement by Viktor Yushchenko made public at a meeting concerning the flu epidemic in Lviv.
Nov 1, 2009 at 15:42 | Ukrainian News
Tymoshenko: Don't panic during flu epidemic Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has called on politicians, civil servants, and leaders of all levels not to allow panic during the A(H1N1) flu epidemic in Ukraine.

Tymoshenko said this during the conference call meeting on Saturday.
Nov 1, 2009 at 15:38 | Ukrainian News
LONDON, Nov 1 (Reuters) - The UK government will announce a banking overhaul this week which it hopes will attract new players to the market, as carve-up plans for rescued banks Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds are finalised.
Nov 1, 2009 at 15:35 | Reuters
Corruption costs Spain billions MADRID, Nov 1 (Reuters) - A Spanish newspaper said on Sunday it had calculated that money laundering, bribery, tax fraud and other sharp practices by politicians had cost the country 4.2 billion euros ($6.23 billion) in the last 10 years.
Nov 1, 2009 at 15:29 | Ukrainian News
Police arrest one of Italy's most-wanted mafia men NAPLES, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Italian police arrested one of Italy's most wanted mafia bosses on Sunday, a day after detaining his brother, dealing a heavy blow to one of the most powerful criminal clans in the region around Naples.
Nov 1, 2009 at 15:23 | Reuters
KIEV, Ukraine -- Ukraine introduced some of the strictest measures in the world on Friday to combat swine flu after a spate of deaths in the west of the country.
Nov 1, 2009 at 15:22
Geithner: Economy rebounding, but job growth lags WASHINGTON (AP) -- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner acknowledges the federal budget deficit is too high, but that the priorities now are economic growth and job creation.
Nov 1, 2009 at 15:16 | Associated Press
Nov 1 (Reuters) - Democratic leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives unveiled a bill on Thursday to reform the U.S. healthcare system, President Barack Obama's main domestic objective.
Nov 1, 2009 at 15:11 | Reuters
WASHINGTON, Nov 1 (Reuters) - The key number in next year's U.S. congressional election may be the unemployment rate, which last month hit a 26-year high of 9.8 percent.
Nov 1, 2009 at 15:06 | Reuters