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White House: Obama Copenhagen visit to aid climate deal WASHINGTON, Nov 30 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama hopes his decision to attend the United Nations' climate conference in Copenhagen next month will help to bring participants to the brink of a deal, the White House said on Monday.
Nov 30, 2009 at 22:54 | Reuters
Somali pirates seize Greek tanker near Seychelles ATHENS, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Somali pirates have seized a Greek-flagged oil tanker near the Seychelles, more than 700 miles (1,125 km) off the coast of Somalia, Greece's coastguard said on Monday.
Nov 30, 2009 at 22:49 | Reuters
European Parliament president hoping for free, transparent presidential elections in Ukraine President of the European Parliament Jerzy Buzek hopes that the upcoming presidential elections in Ukraine will be free, open and transparent.
Nov 30, 2009 at 22:10 | Interfax-Ukraine
Demjanjuk trial on Nazi death camp charges opens MUNICH (AP) — John Demjanjuk sat in a wheelchair wrapped in a light blue blanket, his eyes closed and his face pale as his trial opened on charges he helped kill 27,900 Jews as a Nazi death camp guard.
Nov 30, 2009 at 21:09
Russian train toll hits 26; Police release sketch MOSCOW (AP) — Police released a composite sketch Monday of a man thought to be involved in a train bombing that killed 26 people, and a railway official suggested the attack had the hallmarks of terrorism by saboteurs from the volatile North Caucasus.
Nov 30, 2009 at 20:58
Sanitary epidemiological station: Flu over in Kyiv The Kyiv city sanitary and epidemiological station has said that the flu is over in Kyiv. According to the sanitary and epidemiological station, the indicators of the epidemic growth are 1.6 times lower the epidemic threshold.
Nov 30, 2009 at 15:18 | Ukrainian News
Slovakia Today: Slovak-Ukrainian border crossing reopens Motor vehicles will be again allowed to cross the Schengen zone border with Ukrain at the Slovak-Ukrainian checkpoint Ubla as of Sunday, November 29, the spokesperson of the Border Police Directorate in Sobrance (Kosice region) Agnesa Kopernicka informed on Saturday. Read the story here.
Nov 30, 2009 at 10:15
Washington Times: Yushchenko calls '30s famine Soviet genocide Natalia A. Feduschak writes from Kyiv: Standing before a monument dedicated to the millions who perished from the Great Famine of the 1930s, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko marked the famine's anniversary with a fresh appeal for the world to recognize the tragedy as an act of genocide by then-Soviet leader Josef Stalin. Read the story here.
Nov 30, 2009 at 10:01
Europe's post-Soviet greening _ gains and failures DNIPRODZERZHYNSK, Ukraine (AP) — Twenty years ago, when the Iron Curtain came down, the world gagged in horror as it witnessed firsthand the ravages inflicted on nature by the Soviet industrial machine.
Nov 30, 2009 at 09:50