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Ukraine's president set a date for early parliamentary elections, moving forward Thursday with a bid to sideline the prime minister that is deepening political and economic instability in this volatile ...

BAGHDAD : An Iraqi lawmaker loyal to the Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr was killed Thursday when a bomb struck his convoy in Baghdad, officials said.

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko on Wednesday dissolved parliament and called an early election amid mounting political chaos at home and threat from the spreading international financial crisis.

The global financial crisis has not affected Ukraine directly as its stock market is underdeveloped, and mortgage loans do not play a major role in the local economy.

The presidents of Ukraine and Azerbaijan will not attend the Commonwealth of Independent States summit in Kyrgyzstan on Friday, the Central Asian state's envoy to the post-Soviet alliance said Thursday.

Ukraine gained independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and is now seeking closer integration with Western Europe - a process watched with unease by its eastern neighbour, Russia.

UN News Service 7 October 2008 The "severely stretched" United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur, which has struggled to find enough countries willing to supply troops and equipment, should now ...

The President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko is paying a working visit to Great Britain on October 6, the press service of the president reported.

OHRID, Macedonia : Defense Secretary Robert Gates and his Ukrainian counterpart acknowledged Wednesday that there is much work to do to overcome the political unrest in Ukraine and its limited public support ...

Leaders of a Moscow-dominated group of post-Soviet states are in Kyrgyzstan for talks overshadowed by worldwide financial turmoil and Russia's recent march into Georgia.

KING CARL XVI GUSTAF OF SWEDEN: 'JUST LIKE UKRAINIANS, WE ARE INTERESTED IN TAKING A LOOK AT OUR SHARED HISTORY AND ASSESSING EVENTS THAT TOOK PLACE HUNDREDS OF YEARS AGO' In Razmyshleniia Mazeppy Mykola Hohol ...

Activists of the pro-Russian organizations intend to appeal to the Administrative court of Sevastopol to prove illegal staying of the city in the composition of Ukraine .

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's bloc has signed a statement in an attempt to restore the ruling coalition in Ukraine's parliament, the bloc said on Monday.

The patriarch of the schismatic Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kiev Patriarchate said Monday his country had to join NATO to protect itself from Russia, Ukraine's UNIAN news agency reported.

President Victor Yushchenko met with delegates of the European Parliament, according to the President`s press-office. At the meeting sides discussed prospects of Ukraine's European and Euro-Atlantic ...

One in three smokes some form of tobacco, officials say, and a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in February this year said one in every 10 deaths in the country from 2010 would be ...

Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko at a press conference on Friday in Kyiv signed the statement concerning events in Georgia, which was earlier signed by President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko at the ...

President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko announced that the Russia-Ukraine treaty on friendship, cooperation and partnership had been extended for another 10-year period, the president`s press office reported.

Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said Wednesday she would accept President Viktor Yushchenko's conditions to revive their fractured pro-Western coalition, a move that would avert early parliamentary ...

Three years ago, after President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine signed his July edict entitled "On Measures to Improve the Performance of Central and Local Authorities in Ensuring Equal Rights and Opportunities ...