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By Nov. 20, a total of 362 people have died of the flu and respiratory infections in Ukraine. Today at 07:57 | (Wire reports) |
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Philip P. Pan writes:As the pandemic H1N1 influenza surges with the onset of winter, the nations of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union appear particularly vulnerable to the deadly virus. Burdened with weak health-care systems, relatively inexperienced news media outlets and shaky governments that have little public trust, the region also seems ripe for panic and political strife over the flu. Read the story here. Today at 10:11 | (Wire reports) |
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Today at 08:05 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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Yalta – Russia is ready to participate in the modernization of the Ukrainian gas transportation system (GTS) as it has all the opportunities for this, Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko has said. Today at 13:50 | (Wire reports) |
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The share of bad loans in the overall amount of loans provided by Ukrainian banks grew by one percentage point or by Hr 6 billion in October 2009, to 8.1 percent, or Hr 61 billion as of Nov. 1, the National Bank of Ukraine has reported. Today at 08:09 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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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. Today at 17:43 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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MOSCOW (AP) — Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev criticized Kremlin policies Friday and toyed with the ambitious idea of attempting a political comeback. Today at 07:24 | (Wire reports) |
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Vladimir Putin, Russian prime minister, has agreed to waive sanctions against Ukraine and amend Russia’s natural gas contract with the country, in a move that could ease fears of a disruption to European gas supplies this winter.Thursday’s agreement could also boost the prospects in Ukraine’s hotly contested presidential election for his Ukrainian counterpart, Yulia Tymoshenko. Today at 10:41 | (Wire reports) |
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President Victor Yushchenko has confirmed that Ukraine is ready to continue open and fruitful dialogue and dynamic development of its relations with the European Union. Today at 12:49 | Ukrainian News |
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Ukraine will send around 30 soldiers of the Alfa special unit of the Security Service of Ukraine to participate in the EU-led anti-piracy Operation Atalanta. Today at 08:12 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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LONDON, Nov 20 (Reuters) - World equities fell on bank worries and the dollar climbed on Friday as a bout of year-end risk aversion gripped European markets, and Wall Street looked set to follow suit. Today at 07:48 | Reuters |
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ATLANTA (AP) — Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to the medication Tamiflu, health officials said Friday. Today at 07:09 | (Wire reports) |
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MOSCOW, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Russia has the world's most fraudulent economy and attempts to stamp out white-collar crime have done little to stop its spread during the global financial downturn, PricewaterhouseCoopers said in a survey. Seventy-one percent of Russian respondents to PwC's global economic crime survey said they had been subject to economic crime in the past year, more than in next-ranked South Africa, Kenya, Canada and Mexico. Today at 07:53 | (Wire reports) |
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CHICAGO (AP) — For more than two decades, Oprah Winfrey has been the inspirational, change-your-life champion who reigned over daytime television Today at 10:58 | (Wire reports) |