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Ukraine's parliament on Friday approved legislation needed for a crucial $16.5 billion International Monetary Fund rescue loan to help the country weather the global financial crisis, which has sent its currency plummeting.
Ukraine's premier mocked the president's nearly fatal 2004 dioxin poisoning, saying Thursday that Viktor Yushchenko's main problem was being poisoned by unlimited power.
Queen sang to tens of thousands of Ukrainians in a charity concert meant to raise money and AIDS awareness in this ex-Soviet republic.
With Russian troops stationed deep in Georgia, fears run high that Ukraine may be the next target of a Kremlin drive to reclaim dominance in the lands of the former Soviet Union.
Russia's foreign minister warned Ukrainian leaders Tuesday against trying to restrict the Kremlin's use of a Crimean naval base it leases from Ukraine, adding to tensions that have heated up since Russian troops invaded Georgia.
Tens of thousands of people braved heavy rain and thunder Saturday night to see Paul McCartney perform a charity concert on Kiev's central Independence Square.
Rising inflation is severely hurting Ukraine and other Eastern European nations, while the global credit crunch will slow growth in those countries dramatically in coming months, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development said Sunday.
Leonid Stadnik's phenomenal height has forced him to quit a job he loved and to stoop as he moves around his house.
Leonid Stadnik's phenomenal height has forced him to quit a job he loved and to stoop as he moves around his house.
Ukraine's president, facing a threatened cutoff of natural gas by Moscow next week, insisted Wednesday that his country has paid its debt, but Russia's natural gas monopoly wasn't satisfied.
Holding candles, thousands of people from all over Ukraine gathered Saturday on a square in Kiev to mourn the millions who died of starvation during a famine engineered by the Soviet authorities 75 years ago.
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