The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted
in the first reading the draft law “On establishing the living wage and
minimal salary in 2010”. According to an UNIAN correspondent, 259 out of 444 lawmakers registered in the session hall voted for this draft law. The
Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine also made a decision on reducing the
consideration procedure of this draft law in the second reading from 14
days to 7 days.
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There is flap in the Hundred Acre Wood
at the arrival of an otter called Lottie. No one can dislike an otter,
it is just that everything in the Hundred Acre Wood has been unchanged
– the bridge where they played Poohsticks, the name-board Sanders over
Pooh`s house – since A A Milne brought it to public notice in the
1920s, according to Telegraph.co.uk.
Now an official sequel, Return to the Hundred Acre Wood, has been
written by David Benedictus. In his "exposition" of the sequel, he has
Christopher Robin asking: "Are you really going to write us new
adventures, because we rather liked the old ones?" A good question. Classic
children`s stories are known by heart. They have limits. Are otters
also to be introduced into Alice or The Tale of Peter Rabbit? Sometimes
we want smaller worlds not bigger ones. A Hundred Acres
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President of Ukraine Victor Yushchenko approved the Measures Plan on preparation of his official visit to Belgium. The
relevant Decree “On preparation of official visit of the President of
Ukraine to Belgium” is posted at official web site of the head of the
state. According to this document, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has to provide fulfillment of indicated measures.
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Lawmaker, member from the Party of
Regions Mykhaylo Chechetov proposes after presidential election to
carry out a round table between a winner and defeated party. The new
format of coalition has to be a result of this round table. According
to an UNIAN correspondent, he said this at the session of the
Discussion club under Inter-regional Human Resource Management Academy. Delivering
a speech before the students of the Inter-regional Human Resource
Management Academy M. Chechetov expressed a confidence that leader of
the Party of Regions Victor Yanukovych or Prime Minister of Ukraine
Yulia Tymoshenko will be a winner of the presidential election. As a
result of this, M. Chechetov forecasts regular political split and
confrontation in Ukraine, because, according to his opinion, East and
South will vote for V. Yanukovych and West will vote for Yu. Tymoshenko. The
lawmaker believes that the single way out from this situation is
carrying out
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Helsinki has found a novel solution to the
age-old problem of urban rabbits. They will soon be on the menu for the
city zoo’s vultures, wolverines and lions, according to IceNews. The
zoo, located on Korkeasaari Island, will introduce the new bunny
offerings at the end of the month, according to a report by the
Helsingin Sanomat. The domestic diet will be sourced from greens and
parks patrolled by the city’s Building Services Unit. The zoo system
will play an important part in maintaining Helsinki’s fragile
ecosystem, which has often come under threat from the city’s resilient
rabbit population. The bunny proposal had been in discussion
since springtime this year and was finalised when zoo veterinarian Eeva
Rudback sent an email confirmation to Building Services project planner
Antti Rautiainen. Rautiainen’s proposal stated
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 After Iran's acknowledgment that it is developing a second
uranium-enrichment facility, "Israel" must consider not just whether to
proceed with a strike against Iran-but how, The Wall Street Journal
declares.
According to the newspaper, Iran has all of the technology and
production and manufacturing capabilities needed for fission weapons.
It has put massive resources into a medium-range missile program that
has the range payload to carry nuclear warheads.
"These capabilities are dispersed in many facilities in many cities and
remote areas, and often into many buildings in each facility-each of
which would have to be a target in an Israeli military strike", the
edition notes.
According to the newspaper, "Israel" is considering military options,
but considering them carefully and with an understanding
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A cow died from mad cow disease in Mokraya village of the Pecherinskyi region of the Zakarpattya. The
press service of the Emergency Ministry disclosed to UNIAN that it was
defined by laboratory researches of the Oblast laboratory of the
veterinary medicine. According to the preliminary data, some sick
animal could bite the cow. The cow’s carcass was burnt,
decontamination and vaccination about 60 head of other cattle was
carried out. 11 people, who contacted with animals, are at examination
in hospital.
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 Russia has created secret training base in Crimea for its terrorists according to Ukrainian magazine "Glavred".
"Every year, incognito, Russian Navy's Special Forces units based in
city of Tuapse and belonging to GRU (army's main intelligence service)
visits the city of Sevastopol for training purposes.
Having training bases on Russia's Caucasian coastline, twice a year
Moscow prefers to send its military intelligence divisions to Ukraine
to fulfill their skills. With the help of those units Russia has
destroyed Georgia's main naval base in the city of Poti in August 2009"
- says the magazine.
The edition also notes that from the beginning of 90's the number of
Russian terrorists from FSB on the Black Sea fleet has considerably
increased.
Also, there are 5 structural division
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LUKOIL (LKOH.MM), Russia`s
second-largest oil producer, has stopped oil product output at its
Odessa refinery in Ukraine due to crude shortages, a company spokesman
said on Friday, according to Reuters. "Oil
products output has stopped," the spokesman, Dmitry Dolgov, said,
adding that the company was preparing a statement to clarify its
position. On Thursday, market sources said crude deliveries to
the Odessa refinery were halted on Oct. 1, as Ukrainian state pipeline
operator Ukrtransnafta refused to supply crude to the refinery via the
Kremenchug-Odessa pipeline. [ID:nL1604033] Ukrtransnafta said on
Friday it had proposed LUKOIL change supply routes to Odessa, citing
"national interests" and the need to feed Ukraine`s Kremenchug
refinery, owned by Ukrtatnafta. LUKOIL has argued that alternative supply routes would comp
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 Praise be to Allah Who has created us Muslims, blessed us by an
opportunity to do Jihad and enabled us to earn our path to Heaven.
May peace and blessings be upon the Leader of all Mujahideen, Prophet
Muhammad, his family, his associates and all those who would follow him
to the Judgment Day.
And then...
Brothers and sisters Muslims! Today disbelievers intimidate people that
we plan to conduct explosions on markets, hospitals and other places
where peaceful population is gathered, seizure of schools and other
operations. We officially declare that we do not plan any operations in
locations wherein peaceful Muslims may gather; it is a slander and
propaganda of disbelievers. They plan closure of markets, conduct
""exercises" in the hospital, although they clearly know that these
(methods counter-measure drills to which are being exer
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Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko left for Lviv on one-day working visit. According
to an UNIAN correspondent, it is expected that during the visit Yu.
Tymoshenko will get acquainted with reconstruction process of “Lviv”
International airport and building of the stadium for Euro-2012. It
is planned that Yulia Tymoshenko will meet with Lviv archbishop of the
Byzantine-rite Catholic Church of the Ukraine Igor Voznyak. Also
Yu. Tymoshenko will deliver a speech at the session of the club of the
regional leaders of the 9th Lviv International Economic Forum. The
Prime Minister also plans to give an interview to the Lviv Oblast State
television and radio company and to visit the concert of all-Ukrainian
tour ‘With Ukraine in heart”. Yu. Tymoshenko plans to return to Kyiv late in the evening.
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President of Ukraine Victor Yushchenko
gave instructions to the Prosecutor’s General Office to give legal
estimation to current advertising-agitation activity of Ukrainian
politicians who will take part in the presidential election campaign. According to an UNIAN correspondent, V. Yushchenko said this at the news conference in Kyiv. According
to the words of the head of the state, he gave instructions to the
Prosecutor’s General Office to estimate from legal point of view
whether an advertising-agitation activity of some Ukrainian
politicians corresponds to the legislation, because it is carried out
before official start of the electoral presidential campaign.
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Blackburn Rovers manager Sam Allardyce
believes that Chelsea made a mistake by giving Andriy Shevchenko very
little time to settle down in the Premier League. Allardyce says
that the situation is similar with Rovers` new defender Michel Salgado,
who needs time to adapt to the physical nature of football in England. "I give you the perfect example," he told The Lancashire Telegraph. "This [Shevchenko] wasn`t a young man, this was an old, experienced player. "Because
Chelsea put him in too quickly, and because he wasn’t ready, he became
a complete flop – and that was Andriy Shevchenko. "That was £30
million and however much grand a week. They continued to play him
because he cost that much when he was never ready to play in the
Premier League. "It was far too quick for him, far too physical and the lad`s confidence just drained away. He never, ever got to it. "It is the same with Michel Salgado – he found it tough at
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Floods and landslides were expected to
hit Vietnam and nearby nations on Thursday after a typhoon cut a
destructive path through South East Asia, killing nearly 350 people,
according to Reuters. State
media in Vietnam said 85 people had died and 12 were missing after
typhoon Ketsana swept through the country late on Tuesday. The
government initially estimated damages in five of 12 affected provinces
at more than $120 million. Eleven people died in Cambodia and the
Philippines where the typhoon first struck last weekend, with 246
reported deaths. Thailand was sending troops to provide humanitarian
assistance in anticipation of floods. River waters in Vietnam`s
eight coastal and central highland provinces were receding on Thursday,
but the national weather bureau warned of more flash floods and
landslides in mountainous areas and high waters
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China is staging mass celebrations to mark 60 years since the Communist Party came to power, according to BBC. Vast lines of tanks, soldiers and missile launchers are being paraded through the capital Beijing. President
Hu Jintao has appeared on the rostrum at Tiananmen Square in a black
Mao-style tunic, seen by analysts as a symbol of his control of the
military. He was joined by his predecessor Jiang Zemin, Premier Wen Jiabao and other senior leaders. After
a 60-gun salute, the Chinese flag was formally raised in the centre of
the historic square - where revolutionary leader Mao Zedong proclaimed
the founding of the People`s Republic of China on 1 October 1949. The
military parade, expected to show previously unseen missile technology,
followed a drive-by inspection of the armed forces and a speech by
President Hu which lauded China`
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 Employees of the Interior Ministry
revealed the biggest bribes in Ukraine at more than USD 1 million in
the Mykolaiv Oblast and Crimea.
According the Public Relations
and International Activity Department of the Interior Ministry,
“Top-100 biggest bribes in Ukraine” anti-rating of detected crimes on
bribery compiled by the law and enforcement bodies indicates this. A
criminal case on extortion by deputy chairman of the Kyiv Oblast city
council at a sum of USD 2.5 million is on the first place of the
rating. The case has been already under consideration of the court. A
case on extortion by chairman of the village council in the Mykolaiv
Oblast at a sum of UAH 8.5 million is at the second place. The
investigation concerning this case continues. A case on extortion by chairman of the village council of Crimea at a sum of USD 1
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 The G-20 Summit held in Pittsburgh on September 24-25 ended with a
comprehensive review of the global financial crisis. The summit brought
together leaders from industrialized and emerging market economies that
account for 80 percent of the global economic output. In the statement
issued at the end of the meeting, the G-20 leaders formalized what is
already known: that the G-20 will become a mainstay in international
diplomacy and global economic leadership.
The G-20 became operational in 1999 as a forum for leading
industrialized countries in the West and emerging economies to address
global economic issues. The G-20 countries include Argentina,
Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia,
Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea,
Turkey, United Kingdom and the United States. It also includes the
European Union.
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Daniel Strumberg. (Photo: Allon Borkovski)
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When Daniel Strumberg first arrived in Israel in 2000 at the age of
20, it was "love at first sight." Only he did not anticipate this love
affair would last six years and end up with him on his way to becoming
a solider of the Israeli army.
Born in a small village in Northern Sweden, this pastor's son was
raised on stories of the Holy Land and a love of Israel and its people.
"As a Christian I believe in the Bible, and the minute I stepped out of
the airport I felt this country is blessed and basically all I wanted
was to help it in any way I can," h
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 The parliamentary elections of June 28 created a strange situation
in Albania. The Democratic Party, who won the elections, formed a new
government this month headed by Sali Berisha, but the opposition is not
taking part in the parliamentary sessions.
The economic situation is not good, with the Albanian currency
rapidly losing points against the Euro and rows of unemployed growing.
The government predicted some months ago a G.D.P. growth by more than 6
percent, which would be the largest in Europe this year, but that is
unlikely to come. I.M.F. experts have predicted a growth of no more
than 1 percent.
During the months prior to the election campaign, the government
made huge public investments that gave the illusion of growing G.D.P.
and a healthy economy. But the last data by the Institute of Statistics
showed that industrial production has fallen by more than 23 percen
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 In 1955, when the founding fathers of the Non-Aligned Movement
(N.A.M.) held their first meeting in the now-famous Bandung Gathering,
the role of the N.A.M. seemed clear: prevention of a new war. In a
world already savagely ravaged by the Second World War, the U.S.S.R.
and the United States embarked on a new kind of military and political
confrontation: Cold War. So the role and the place of a non-aligned
movement were clear and easy to carve—keeping the two opposing blocs in
equilibrium and preventing the Cold War from becoming a nuclear war.
After the fall of communism and dissolution of the Warsaw Pact in
1991, the N.A.M. seemed to be out of place in a world that promised to
be without military or ideological confrontation. Many foresaw an end
to the organization in a post-Cold War world. But after the U.S.
invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq presented the risk of a unipolar
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Ukrainian state energy firm Naftogaz
said on Thursday it had not repaid a $500 million Eurobond by its
maturity deadline, causing rating agency Fitch to downgrade it to
restricted default, according to Reuters. The
company, seen by foreign investors as a symbol of Ukraine`s stumbling
fortunes, has been in talks with bondholders to restructure its entire
foreign debt by swapping it for a new 5-year bond worth $1.65 billion
with a 9.5 percent coupon. Naftogaz has been at the centre of
several gas price rows between Ukraine and Russia, the last of which in
January this year led to Russian gas supplies, transiting across
Ukraine, being cut to thousands of consumers in southern Europe. But
the company said on Thursday that Naftogaz`s debt problems would not
affect the transit of Russian gas to Europe nor Kiev`s monthly payments
for gas suppli
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2010 will be special in many aspects
for Ukraine, particularly, it will become a turning year both in policy
and economics of the state. President of Ukraine Victor
Yushchenko expressed this opinion, addressing to participants of the
9th Lviv International Economic Forum “Influence of global economic
crisis on investment climate and perspectives of attracting investments
into regional economies of Ukraine” . The head of the state noted
that he estimate year 2010 as a year, “which will bring stabilization
to the parliament, will be a year of reforms, because political
passions will be in the past, because it will be the special year, year
of election of the President”.
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 Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko
swept into power five years ago at the head of an Orange Revolution
that promised national revival. Now he is running fourth in polls as
voters blame him for political paralysis and a collapsing economy.
Even
as he faces likely defeat in Jan. 17 elections, Yushchenko offers no
regrets. He casts his rivals, Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko and
pro-Russian leader Viktor Yanukovych, as “populist” vote-chasers and
himself as a champion of unpopular truths about the need for an
independent national identity. “I say words that many don’t like,
but I won’t give up,” said Yushchenko, 55, in a Sept. 17 interview in
his Kiev office. “If a lot of people don’t agree with you, that doesn’t
mean that you are wrong. Either you aren’t popular but deliver a
strategic service to the nation, or you dream about elections.” Oth
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 The sale of one of Ukraine`s biggest state
companies collapsed on Tuesday, highlighting the deep rift in the
country`s leadership while the government accused bidders of shady
dealings to get the firm on the cheap.
President Viktor
Yushchenko had already banned the sale of the Odessa Port fertiliser
plant by decree earlier this month in a move widely seen as an attempt
to spite his rival, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. Both will compete for the post of president in a Jan. 17 election. Encouraged
by Tymoshenko, the state privatisation agency pressed ahead with a
live-televised auction despite the presidential decree -- but it ended
in farce. After rushing through the sale at break-neck speed,
auction officials declared Ukraine`s Nortima the winner with a bid of
$624 million, but then the show went off-air. A short time later,
an official from the State Pro
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 A judge ruled Monday afternoon that
there is enough evidence to continue the case against a Jordanian
teenager accused of trying to use a weapon of mass destruction blow up
a Dallas skyscraper.
FBI
Special Agent Tom Petrowski, who oversaw the investigation, testified
Monday that Hosam Maher Smadi, 19, had researched how to use a cell
phone to detonate a bomb and made a 7-minute video he believed would be
transmitted to Usama bin Laden. Petrowski also said Smadi indicated he
was concerned he had not parked a vehicle with what he believed to be a
car bomb in a way that would destroy the entire structure.
No dates have been set for a trial or any preliminary hearings.
On
Sept. 24, Smadi drove a truck he believed held a live bomb and parked
it in the garage underneath the 60-story Fountain P
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 A baby
woolly mammoth, frozen in soil for 40,000 years in Siberia, was so well
preserved that traces of her mother's milk were still in her stomach.
Lyuba,
who was thought to be just one month old, was discovered three years
ago when nomadic reindeer dug her up. Scientists believe she died after
being sucked into a river bed. Mud was found in her trunk and throat,
suggesting she had suffocated.
The body is
preserved enough to provide DNA samples, but the prospect of cloning
the creature is still a long way off. Researchers found the animals'
hump acted like a furnace, which helped maintain body temperature
during colder weather. This supports the theory that mammoths were born
in early spring.
Lyuba is being transported to Chicago to be exhibited in the
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 ISLAMABAD — A homicide blast killed
five people inside the lobby of the heavily protected U.N. World Food
Program office on Monday in what is normally an extremely secure
neighborhood of the capital known as sector F-8.
Two
of the five killed by the blast were Pakistani women; an Iraqi national
and a Pakistani man also died. At least five others were injured.
Minister
of Interior Rehman Malik has said the attack was a homicide bombing and
the bomber was wearing a uniform for Frontier Corps, a paramilitary service of the Pakistan security forces.
Within
20 minutes after the explosion a small stream of smoke could be seen
billowing out one side of the two-story building that is completely
incased with rows of massive wired-wrapped sandbags and a security
perimeter of fencing and b
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 The doctor made a White House call Monday -- 150 of them, in fact, all costumed in white hospital coats -- to try to help
President Obama administer a booster shot to his ailing health care reform drive. White
House spokesman Reid Cherlin described the assembled physicians, from
all 50 states, as the best voices for reform because they witness the
current health care system on a day-to-day basis. "These folks know better than anybody about what works and what doesn't," Cherlin
told FOXNews.com, adding that the physicians come from "a variety of groups that we work with." But the doctors in the
Rose Garden were all supporters of health care reform -- and the invitation-only guest list drew heavily from Doctors for
America, a grassroots organization that backs a government-run insurance option. Roughly 98 pe
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 NEW YORK — An Afghan immigrant
accused of plotting a terrorist attack in New York after receiving
training in Pakistan was in contact with a senior Al Qaeda operative,
intelligence officials familiar with the investigation told The
Associated Press. The
CIA learned about Najibullah Zazi through one of its sources and
alerted domestic agencies, including the FBI, intelligence officials
said. The officials, who declined to offer more details on the
operative, spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is
ongoing. The fact that intelligence
officials learned of Zazi through a CIA source sheds more light on the
government's claim that the charges against Zazi are part of a broader,
international case and begins to explain why the investigation
triggered such a large offensive from the nation's intelligence
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WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration's pay czar is planning to
clamp down on compensation at firms receiving large sums of government
aid by cutting annual cash salaries for many of the top employees under
his authority, according to people familiar with the matter. Instead of awarding large cash salaries,
Kenneth Feinberg is planning to shift a chunk of an employee's annual
salary into stock that cannot be accessed for several years, these
people said. Such a move, the most intrusive yet into corporate
compensation, would mark the government's first effort to curb the
take-home pay of everyone from auto executives to financial traders. Feinberg is expected to issue by
mid-October his determination on compensation packages for 175 of the
most-highly compensated executives and employees at the seven firms he
oversees. The companies are: American International Group Inc., Bank of
America Corp., Citigroup Inc., General Motors Co., GMAC Financial
Services Inc., Chrysler LL
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 SEOUL, South Korea — North
Korea is in the final stage of restoring its nuclear facilities, a news
report said Tuesday, as leader Kim Jong Il expressed a conditional
willingness to end Pyongyang's boycott of international nuclear talks. South
Korean and U.S. intelligence authorities reached the conclusion after
scrutinizing about 10 atomic facilities in North Korea since April when
the communist regime vowed to restart its nuclear program in anger over
a U.N. rebuke of its long-range rocket launch. Pyongyang
claimed the launch was a peaceful attempt to put a satellite into
orbit, but the liftoff was widely condemned as a test of the North's
long-range missile technology. The
report came as North Korean leader Kim Jong Il told Chinese Prime
Minister Wen Jiabao that his country was prepared to return to
six-party nuclear disarmament talks depending on progress in its
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 The world's oil
producers, as well as China, Japan and France, are in secret talks to
end the use of the U.S. dollar to buy and sell crude oil, a British
newspaper reported on Tuesday, sending the American currency lower in
overseas trading. "Secret
meetings have already been held by finance ministers and central bank
governors in Russia, China, Japan and Brazil to work on the scheme,
which will mean that oil will no longer be priced in dollars," said the report
in The Independent, which cited unidentified sources in the Gulf and
Hong Kong. It added that France had also been involved in the talks. The
report, written by leading journalist Robert Fisk, said Gulf states
plan to transition the trading of crude oil over nine years from the
U.S. dollar to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen and
Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new, unified
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