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California-based company launches satellite from Kazakhstan LONG BEACH, California (AP) — The California-based international partnership Sea Launch Co. has successfully launched a satellite for Intelsat customers from its land-launch operation in Kazakhstan.
Dec 1, 2009 at 11:24
American Chronicle: Several foreign policy and media takes Unlike the last Ukrainian presidential election, the upcoming vote in Ukraine appears (at least for now) to not be as great a focal point of geopolitical confrontation. For now, the existing differences seem better managed and less confrontational. A Nov. 19 Russo-Ukrainian agreement on Russian gas to Ukraine arguably serves (especially in the short term) to lessen the chance for another European gas crisis, as had previously occurred. On this issue, the potential for a future breakdown, nevertheless remains evident. Read the story here.
Dec 1, 2009 at 11:19
TEHRAN, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Iran's Revolutionary Guards said onDec. 1their naval forces had detained five Britons in the Gulf, the semi-official Fars News Agency reported.
Dec 1, 2009 at 11:09 | Reuters
Raiffeisen says uncertainty still high in Ukraine NEW YORK, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Emerging Europe's No. 2 bank Raiffeisen International will cut more jobs in Ukraine, the bank's biggest "sore spot" in Eastern Europe, as political uncertainty runs high in the country, Chief Financial Officer Martin Gruell said.
Dec 1, 2009 at 11:05 | Reuters
China launches ad campaign to salvage global image BEIJING, Dec 1 (Reuters) - China, the country that introduced the world to formerly obscure chemicals like melamine and diethylene glycol via a series of product safety scandals, is now hoping to salvage its image through an advertising campaign.
Dec 1, 2009 at 11:02 | Reuters
Agence France Presse: AIDS epidemics risk being generalized The AIDS epidemic in Ukraine, one of Europe's most affected countries, risk becoming generalised as heterosexual contacts become the chief transmission route for the HIV virus, UN and Ukrainian officials warned Monday. Read the story here.
Dec 1, 2009 at 10:59
The Brazilian president is arriving in Ukraine on a two-day visit on Tuesday. Read the story here.
Dec 1, 2009 at 10:55
Huffington Post: Mixed feelings about Demjanjuk Alan Elsner writes: The opening of the trial of the 89-year-old John Demjanjuk in Germany on Monday has evoked mixed responses. As the son of a Holocaust survivor and author of "The Nazi Hunter," a novel about bring former Nazis to justice, I instinctively feel that there should be no statute of limitations for perpetrators of genocide. On the other hand, seeing this old man brought into the courtroom lying on a gurney writhing and complaining of pain makes one wonder whether the whole exercise will make people pity him rather than the victims of his alleged crimes. Read the story.
Dec 1, 2009 at 10:52
Top European Union official: Oligarchs stall Ukraine progress Ukraine's business oligarchs are stifling the economy by choking competition and are holding up improved trade and economic ties with the European Union, the EU Commission's top official in Kyiv said on Monday.
Dec 1, 2009 at 10:33 | Reuters
Clinton daughter Chelsea engaged to be married NEW YORK (AP) — Turns out those discredited rumors of a possible Chelsea Clinton wedding last summer were mostly just premature: The 29-year old daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has become engaged to her longtime boyfriend, 31-year old investment banker Marc Mezvinsky.
Dec 1, 2009 at 10:28
Day 2 for Demjanjuk in German court MUNICH (AP) — John Demjanjuk is heading back to court where prosecutors will lay out their case accusing him of being accessory to the murder of 27,900 Jews at the Sobibor death camp.
Dec 1, 2009 at 10:12