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WORLD / NEWS Tue Apr 1, 2008 @ 8:25am neoform

BBC News -- US President George W Bush has voiced his support for Ukraine's membership of Nato, during a visit to Kiev. Sitting beside President Viktor Yushchenko, Mr Bush said Kiev had made a bold decision to request membership and the US "strongly supported it"... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Sep 17, 2007 @ 10:05pm neoform

BBC News -- The authorities in Ukraine have approved a giant steel cover for the radioactive site of the world's worst nuclear disaster - Chernobyl. Ukraine has hired a French firm to build the structure to replace the crumbling concrete casing put over the reacto.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon May 7, 2007 @ 3:32pm neoform

BBC News -- A blast has destroyed a section of one of the main gas pipelines in Ukraine exporting Russian gas to Europe, Ukraine's emergencies ministry says. It says about 30m (98ft) of the Urenhoi-Pomary-Uzhhorod pipeline was damaged by the explosion. Russia's.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Dec 13, 2006 @ 8:10am neoform

BBC News -- Healthy new-born babies may have been killed in Ukraine to feed a flourishing international trade in stem cells, evidence obtained by the BBC suggests... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Apr 3, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

BBC News -- Nato has confirmed it will not yet offer membership to Georgia or Ukraine after the 26-member alliance was split amid strong objections from Russia. The alliance also said it would not invite Macedonia to join after protests from Greece over Macedonia'.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Apr 3, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- NATO allies have agreed to put off a plan to put Ukraine and Georgia on track to join the military alliance. But NATO did invite Albania and Croatia on Thursday to become members. NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer says the alliance is commit.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Mar 4, 2008 @ 8:25am neoform

BBC News -- Ukraine has said it may restrict Russian gas supplies to Europe if gas monopoly Gazprom goes ahead with further cuts in Ukrainean supply. State-owned Gazprom says it will cut supplies of gas to Ukraine by a further 25% on Tuesday, but had said shipment.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Feb 12, 2008 @ 8:11am neoform

BBC News -- Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko is in Moscow to try to persuade Russia not to cut gas supplies to his country in a dispute over an unpaid bill. He has just five hours with President Vladimir Putin to settle the row over a demand by Russian gas mo.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Dec 18, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- Ukraine's parliament elected pro-Western former premier Yulia Tymoshenko as its new prime minister on Tuesday, the Ukrinform national news agency reported. Tymoshenko won the vote with the minimum number of 226 votes, Ukrinform said. She had failed to.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Nov 19, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

CNN -- Rescuers struggled with flames and fallen rock in trying to reach 23 miners trapped in a coal mine Monday, a day after a methane blast killed at least 77 others in one of Ukraine's deadliest mining disasters of the post-Soviet era. Nearly 360 miners at th.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Oct 1, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

BBC News -- Ukraine's opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko says she wants to form a new coalition government following Sunday's closely fought parliamentary election. She says she will hold talks with President Viktor Yushchenko's party in what could be a return to.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Oct 1, 2007 @ 8:07am neoform

SF Gate -- The fractious inheritors of Ukraine's Orange Revolution appeared to have secured a knife-edge victory in parliamentary elections Sunday, according to exit polls. But because the vote appears to be so close, the prediction of a tiny majority for a coali.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Jun 5, 2007 @ 11:13pm neoform

FOX News -- A mass grave holding the remains of thousands of Jews killed by the Nazis has been found in southern Ukraine near the site of what was once a concentration camp, a Jewish community representative said Tuesday. The grave was found by chance last month w.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Jun 5, 2007 @ 2:49pm neoform

BBC News -- A mass grave believed to contain the bodies of several thousand Jews killed by the Nazis has been found in Ukraine. The grave was found by chance last month when workers were digging to lay gas pipelines in a village near Odessa. A spokesman for the.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat May 26, 2007 @ 11:19pm neoform

CNN -- Ukraine's president and prime minister on Sunday agreed to hold an early parliamentary election on September 30, defusing a months-long political crisis that had threatened to escalate into violence. "We found a decision, which is a compromise," Presid.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat May 26, 2007 @ 1:47am neoform

BBC News -- Talks are due to resume between the president and prime minister of Ukraine, after the men failed to reach a deal in late-night meetings. President Viktor Yushchenko and PM Viktor Yanukovych clashed over the president's plans to take control of 40,000.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Apr 11, 2007 @ 11:35am neoform

BBC News -- Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko is willing to suspend his decree dissolving parliament and ordering an early 27 May election, an aide says. Security adviser Vitaly Hayduk said Mr Yushchenko was prepared to let the rival members of parliament nego.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Mar 31, 2007 @ 8:57pm neoform

BBC News -- A power struggle inside the government in Ukraine has brought tens of thousands of demonstrators out on to the streets of the capital, Kiev. Amid a sea of flags, rival supporters - some supporting the president, others the PM - gathered in the city cen.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Mar 23, 2007 @ 4:21pm neoform

CNN -- Ukraine captain Andriy Shevchenko will miss their Euro 2008 qualifier against the Faroe Islands on Saturday after picking up an injury in training. The Chelsea striker was left at home on Friday when the Ukrainians flew to the small islands in the Atla.. Read More