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Restored machine to explore mysteries of Big Bang GENEVA (AP) — Scientists are preparing the world's largest atom smasher to explore the depths of matter after successfully restarting the $10 billion machine following more than a year of repairs.
Nov 21, 2009 at 22:56 | Wire reports
Russia may face sanctions for doping in skiing MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian skiing federation and Olympic committee could face sanctions if there are more doping cases involving the country's skiers, the head of the sport's governing body said Saturday.
Nov 21, 2009 at 22:51 | Wire reports
Kyiv restricts traffic on descent from Paton Bridge to Dniprovska embankment and on Serafymovycha Street Nov. 22-27 The Kyiv municipal administration has restricted automobile traffic on the descent from Paton Bridge to Dniprovska embankment and on Serafymovycha Street from Buchmy Street to Dniprovska embankment in both directions from November 22 through November 27.
Nov 21, 2009 at 22:43 | Ukrainian News
Economy minister: Permanent conflicts between NBU and Cabinet contribute to deep fall of GDP in 2009 Economy Minister Bohdan Danylyshyn has said the permanent conflicts and lack of understanding between the National Bank of Ukraine and the Cabinet of Ministers was one of major factors of the deep fall of the Ukrainian GDP in 2009, as the conflicts affected the efficiency of the anti-crisis policies of Ukraine.
Nov 21, 2009 at 22:38 | Ukrainian News
Tihipko not ruling out prime minister post with President Tymoshenko or President Yanukovych Presidential candidate Serhii Tihipko has said he can become the prime minister of Ukraine if incumbent Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko or Party of Regions Faction Leader Viktor Yanukovych is elected the president.
Nov 21, 2009 at 22:30 | Ukrainian News
New York Times: Who fears a free Mikhail Khodorkovsky? In the decade since Putin’s rise, Russians have grown inured to celebrity criminal cases. The murders of politicians, journalists and human rights activists; apartment-house blocks bombed to ruins; the carnage of the hostage sieges in Moscow and Beslan — the acts of horror and terror have numbed the populace. The exception is the delo Khodorkovskogo — the Mikhail Khodorkovsky case. No other affair has lingered as long in the minds of so many. The case marked a turning point for Russia, the divide between the turbulent Yeltsin years and the stricter rule of the Putin era. And today, in its second iteration unfolding in Moscow, much more than the fate of an oligarch hangs in the balance. Read the story here.
Nov 21, 2009 at 21:20 | Wire reports
San Francisco Chronicle: Ukrainian ex-prime minister's sentence reduced A former Ukrainian prime minister who fled his country after losing a power struggle won an 11-month reduction Wednesday in his nine-year prison term for laundering more than $20 million through U.S. banks, but failed to persuade a San Francisco federal judge to throw his sentence out. Read the story here.
Nov 21, 2009 at 20:45 | Wire reports
Coal mine blast kills 42 in China, 66 trapped HARBIN, China (AP) — Rescuers working in frigid cold and darkness tried to reach 66 people believed trapped a third of a mile (half a kilometer) underground after a huge gas explosion Saturday ripped through a coal mine in northern China, killing at least 42 people
Nov 21, 2009 at 20:38 | Wire reports
Azerbaijan threatens force over Nagorno-Karabakh BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan said Saturday his nation may resort to military force if talks with Armenia on resolving a long-standing territorial dispute produce no result.
Nov 21, 2009 at 20:34 | Wire reports
Update: Russia president criticizes ruling party over vote ST.PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday chided officials in the ruling Kremlin-backed party with unprecedented bluntness, saying they should stop trying to manipulate elections and learn to win fairly.
Nov 21, 2009 at 19:13 | Associated Press and Staff reports
Yanukovych calls for new format of Ukraine-EU dialog on collective security Regions Party leader Victor Yanukovych has said that Ukraine and the European Union should have a new format of a dialog on the issue of collective security.
Nov 21, 2009 at 18:50 | Wire reports
Yushchenko describes Tymoshenko, Yanukovych as 'political adventurers' Kryvi Kolina (Cherkasy region) – Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko has said he thinks that Ukraine will have a government that will support the country.
Nov 21, 2009 at 18:46 | Interfax-Ukraine
Yushchenko: Ukraine's independence, sovereignty currently jeopardized Kryvi Kolina (Cherkasy region)– Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko has said that Ukraine's independence and sovereignty are currently more jeopardized than five to ten years ago.
Nov 21, 2009 at 18:43 | Interfax-Ukraine
Tigipko slams NSDC's decision to increase number of Ukrainian peacekeepers in Afghanistan Candidate for Ukraine's president and banker Sergiy Tigipko has criticized the National Security and Defense Council's decision to increase the number of Ukrainian peacekeepers as part of the UN-led mission in Afghanistan.
Nov 21, 2009 at 18:36 | Interfax-Ukraine
Moscow- Twenty-four servicemen died in the Russian armed forces through crimes or accidents in October, the Defense Ministry has reported.
Nov 21, 2009 at 16:50 | Wire reports