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"Such a system as [Russian Prime Minister Vladimir] Putin's is exactly a target for destruction. It needs to be destroyed."
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Here's a warning for enthusiasts of Euro 2012, the soccer championship to be co-hosted by Ukraine: Don't repeat the mistakes of the fiasco of Miss Europe 1997, held in Kyiv on Sept. 6 of that year. In one of independent Ukraine's most embarrassing international scandals, beauty contestants of the Miss Europe pageant fled Kyiv after complaining that they were forced from their hotel rooms and treated like prostitutes by some of their Ukrainian male hosts. The headline from the Ukrainian Weekly on Sept. 14 summed it up well: "Miss Europe marred by scandal and walkout." Here is the Kyiv Post editorial of Sept. 11, 1997, headlined "A shameful pageant": Nov 10, 2009 at 23:28 |
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Despite a serious outbreak of swine flu in neighboring Ukraine, the Polish government played it cool last week. Polish Health Minister Ewa Kopacz announced that she was not planning to stock up on swine-flu vaccine until it had been properly tested. Read the story here. Nov 10, 2009 at 23:11 |
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A Ukrainian women's group, FEMEN, took to the streets of Kyiv on November 9 to protest what they see as swine-flu hysteria. The group is accusing politicians of using the outbreak to create fear ahead of the country's January 17 presidential election. Read the story here. Nov 10, 2009 at 23:05 |
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CHICAGO, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Cancer patients who took drugs to cut the risk of anemia were twice as likely to develop blood clots in the lungs or legs as other patients, a decade-long study of more than 55, 000 cancer patients has found. Nov 10, 2009 at 23:05 | Reuters |
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The latest swine flu figures from Ukraine say more than a million people have been affected by the virus, and that number could rise dramatically. As many as 174 people have now died from the flu and President Viktor Yushchenko has warned of a second wave of infections. Read the story here. Nov 10, 2009 at 22:51 |
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WASHINGTON, Nov 10 (Reuters) - A U.S. missile defense system that is too robust could actually backfire and become destabilizing, prompting countries like China to expand their nuclear arsenals, a U.S. general said on Tuesday. Nov 10, 2009 at 22:42 | Reuters |
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MOSCOW, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday replaced the veteran governor of a Urals mountains region, one of the last of a generation of powerful regional heads who held sway before a return to centralised Kremlin rule. Nov 10, 2009 at 22:35 | Reuters |
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NEW YORK, Nov 10 (Reuters) - A former New York Post editor has sued the newspaper and its parent, News Corp, saying she was fired after complaining about sexism and racism, including a cartoon that appeared to liken U.S. President Barack Obama to a chimpanzee. Nov 10, 2009 at 22:31 | Reuters |
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BERLIN (Billboard) - The German government has banned hard rock group Rammstein's latest hit album from public display in stores because of its depictions of sado-masochism. Nov 10, 2009 at 22:28 |
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President Viktor Yushchenko wants a deep professional reform of the national health care system to consolidate the facilities existing with the health departments of a number of ministries and departments, and create an effective and fair health care system in Ukraine. President Yushchenko gave his stance on the matter of the national health care system during a meeting in Kherson on the issues of provision of regional security in the environment of the flu epidemic in Ukraine. Nov 10, 2009 at 21:45 | Ukrainian News |
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Andrii Kyslynskyi, the former deputy chairman of the Security Service of Ukraine, intends to file a suit with the Pecherskyi district court of Kyiv on November 11 to cancel a criminal case instituted against him on suspicion of forgery of documents and use of forged documents. Nov 10, 2009 at 21:41 | Ukrainian News |
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BOGOTA, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Nine Colombian soldiers were killed when their post was attacked by Marxist FARC guerrillas in a southwestern part of the country used as a cocaine smuggling corridor by the rebels, officials said on Tuesday. Nov 10, 2009 at 21:35 | Reuters |
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WASHINGTON, Nov 10 (Reuters) - A proposed U.S. law requiring employers to provide paid sick leave would help stop the spread of swine flu and increase productivity, supporters argued on Tuesday. Nov 10, 2009 at 21:33 | Reuters |
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NICOSIA, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Britain has offered to hand over almost half of its sovereign territory in Cyprus to facilitate a peace deal between the island's estranged Greek and Turkish Cypriots, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Nov 10, 2009 at 21:28 | Reuters |
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Ukrainian delegates will participate in a meeting of foreign ministers and a summit of the heads of government of the member states of the Central European Initiative (CEI), which will be held in Bucharest on November 12-13, 2009. Nov 10, 2009 at 21:25 | Interfax-Ukraine |