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Flu, cold kills 87 people in Lviv region The death toll from flu and respiratory diseases in Lviv region has reached 87, the Lviv Regional State Administration's press service reported on Friday.
Nov 13, 2009 at 19:35 | Interfax-Ukraine
France expecting signal from Ukraine about resumption of cooperation with IMF France is expecting a signal from Ukraine about the resumption of cooperation with the International Monetary Fund.
Nov 13, 2009 at 19:32 | Interfax-Ukraine
The Market Oracle: Ukraine WHO and the geopolitics of swine flu panic Latest reports of what is being called a deadly Swine Flu outbreak in Ukraine according to on sight reports appear to be a political concoction by a threatened government to avoid election defeat and possibly declare martial law.
Nov 13, 2009 at 19:27
Russia contented with work on PACE report on 1930s famine in USSR The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly's (PACE) Political Affairs Committee will discuss the preparation of a report on the mass famine in the USSR in the 1930s at its session in Brussels on November 17 Konstantin Kosachyov the head of the Russian delegation at PACE and the chairman of the State Duma international affairs committee, told Interfax.
Nov 13, 2009 at 19:19 | Interfax-Ukraine
Hundreds of reindeer drown in northern Sweden STOCKHOLM, Nov 13 (Reuters Life!) - Hundreds of reindeer crossing a frozen lake above Sweden's Arctic Circle for their annual migration to winter grazing grounds drowned this week as the ice collapsed beneath them.
Nov 13, 2009 at 19:14 | Reuters
BBC News: Ukraine famine diaries on show The 1930s diaries of a Welsh investigative reporter who exposed Stalin's "terror famine" in Soviet Ukraine are to go on public display for the first time.
Nov 13, 2009 at 19:08
WHO: Flu shows signs of peaking in some areas GENEVA, Nov 13 (Reuters) - The winter flu season that began early in the northern hemisphere this year may be peaking in parts of north America and western Europe, the World Health Organisation said on Friday.
Nov 13, 2009 at 19:02 | Reuters
Russian power plant warns of Tajikistan cutoff DUSHANBE, Tajikistan (AP) — A Russian-owned power plant in Tajikistan warnedNov. 13that it will cut off supplies to this impoverished former Soviet republic unless it is paid back about $6.5 million in debt.
Nov 13, 2009 at 18:18 | Associated Press
UN plans global anti-corruption reviews DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A U.N.-led meeting in Doha struck a deal Nov. 13 under which anti-corruption inspectors from the United Nations and independent groups could review public funds in countries around the world in an effort to track and return money looted by political leaders.
Nov 13, 2009 at 17:27 | Associated Press
Survey: Ukrainians to spend nearly Hr 2,500 per capita on New Year and Christmas The average Ukrainian citizen will spend about Hr 2, 500 on gifts, food and entertainment during the New Year and Christmas holidays, or Hr 300 more compared to the previous year.
Nov 13, 2009 at 17:05 | Interfax-Ukraine
EU companies worry about new Russian trade bloc BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union's biggest business federation said Nov. 13 it was worried that a new customs union between Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus could introduce a new trade tax damaging to European exports.
Nov 13, 2009 at 16:43 | Associated Press
Kyiv likely to share ExpoCenter territory with Yudzhyn company until 2010 The Kyiv city state administration expects that the procedures related to the transfer of land lots on the territory of the national complex "ExpoCenter of Ukraine" to the Yudzhyn Company to be completed by the end of 2009. Anatolii Holubchenko, the first deputy head off the Kyiv city state administration, announced this to the press.
Nov 13, 2009 at 16:29 | Ukrainian News
Experts note demand for construction jobs on employment market The number of construction jobs registered on the professional recruitment portal rabota.ua in October totaled 66.6% of the general number of vacancies in the sector of construction and architecture, while a total of 27.4% of registered jobseekers have applied for construction jobs.
Nov 13, 2009 at 16:11 | Interfax-Ukraine
Yanukovych: Ukraine should compete with Russia in standard of naval force Sevastopol, November 13 (Interfax) - The Ukrainian fleet in Sevastopol should be at level no worse than the Russian one, leader of Ukraine's Party of Regions Victor Yanukovych believes.
Nov 13, 2009 at 16:00 | Interfax-Ukraine
Kyiv thinking of loan for Bortnychska aeration station reconstruction The Kyiv city state administration is studying the attraction of a loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development for the reconstruction of the Bortnychska aeration station with the construction of sludge-processing plant, first deputy chairman of the city state administration Anatolii Holubchenko said.
Nov 13, 2009 at 15:28 | Ukrainian News