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Naftogaz hopes to change gas contracts with Gazprom National joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrainy is in talks with Russia's Gazprom hoping to change certain provisions of their gas contracts, Naftogaz spokesman Valentyn Zemliansky told journalists on Nov. 6.
Nov 6, 2009 at 13:21 | Interfax-Ukraine
Tymoshenko: Naftogaz pays Gazprom for October gas shipments The national gas company Naftogaz Ukrainy has paid Russia's Gazprom for gas consumed in October, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has said.
Nov 6, 2009 at 13:16 | Interfax-Ukraine
Baloha says Yanukovych will win upcoming presidential elections Ex-head of the Presidential Secretariat and United Center Party leader Victor Baloha has said that Regions Party leader Victor Yanukovych will be the next president of Ukraine.
Nov 6, 2009 at 13:09
ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) — Uzbekistan's state energy company has signed a $2.5 billion deal to create a joint venture with Malaysia's Petronas and South Africa's Sasol to build a synthetic liquid fuel production plant, the state company announced Friday
Nov 6, 2009 at 12:59 | Associated Press
Naftogaz to pay Gazprom for gas imported in October by end of Friday Ukraine's state gas company Naftogaz will pay Gazprom for gas imported in October on time and in full, making the respective payments by the end of Nov. 6, Naftogaz spokesman Valenntyn Zemliansky has said.
Nov 6, 2009 at 12:51 | Interfax-Ukraine
BUCHAREST, Nov 6 (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund has postponed a review of Romania's 20 billion euro rescue package until the country forms a new government, President Traian Basescu said on Friday.
Nov 6, 2009 at 12:38 | Reuters
WHO: Animals need to be closely watched for flu GENEVA, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Some pigs, turkeys and household pets have become infected with the H1N1 flu, but the pandemic virus does not yet appear to be spreading quickly among animals, the World Health Organisation said on Friday.
Nov 6, 2009 at 12:36 | Reuters
Emergencies ministry: 28 swine flu cases confirmed in Ukraine, 13 die Twenty-eight cases of the A/H1N1 flu virus have been confirmed in Ukraine, according to Oleksiy Hromazin, the director of the Ukrainian Emergencies Ministry's department for healthcare and medical and biological protection.
Nov 6, 2009 at 12:34 | Interfax-Ukraine
U.S. unemployment nears 10 percent as rebound remains slow WASHINGTON (AP) -- The economy is rebounding from its deepest slump since the 1930s, but it probably won't seem that way when the government releases its monthly employment report on Friday.
Nov 6, 2009 at 12:09 | Associated Press
ABC News: Babies cry in native accent Think newborns just eat, sleep and wail the same way across the world? That's not so, according to a new study which found that babies cry with an accent within the first week of life. By recording cries of 60 babies born to French or German parents, researchers discovered that babies cry with the same "prosody" or melody used in their native language by the second day of life. French newborns in the study ended their cries with a lilt at the end typically heard in French. German babies, however, started their cries intensely and dropped off at the end -- much like the emphasis their German parents put in a sentence, according to a study published Thursday in Current Biology. Read the story here.
Nov 6, 2009 at 12:00
EU experts say some countries 'ambushed' by H1N1 STOCKHOLM, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Some countries have been "ambushed" by sudden severe outbreaks of disease and death from the H1N1 flu pandemic, and have gone over the top in their response, a European flu specialist said on Friday.
Nov 6, 2009 at 11:21 | Reuters
Business New Europe: 12 million Ukrainians could be infected with flu by end of 2010 After bne's initial scepticism about the severity of the flu outbreak in Ukraine, things have taken a turn for the worse.
Nov 6, 2009 at 10:44
Ukraine could use IMF money of account to pay for Russian gas The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has proposed that Ukraine could use Special Drawing Rights (SDRs), which the National Bank of Ukraine received from the IMF in August and September, to pay for Russian gas delivered in October, Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko has told European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.
Nov 6, 2009 at 10:30 | Interfax-Ukraine
Russia vows to help Ukraine fight flu Moscow, November 6 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Russian and Ukrainian Prime Ministers Vladimir Putin and Yulia Tymoshenko discussed bilateral trade and economic relations, as well as joint efforts in the fight against the epidemic of swine flu during a phone conversation on Thursday, the Russian government's press service has reported.
Nov 6, 2009 at 10:12 | Interfax-Ukraine
Swine flu breeding racism? Uzhhorod, 5 November: Using a difficult epidemiological situation as pretext, police in Transcarpathian Region have asked locals to report about people of Asian and African origin in the streets.
Nov 6, 2009 at 10:02 | Wire reports