Today, on May 16, 2008, Ukraine has become the full-fledged 152th member of the World trade organization: Protocol on Ukraine’s joining Marrakech Treaty on World trade organization founding ratified by the Verkhovna Rada on April 10, 2008.
Basra or Mosul. One of this Iraqi towns may become a sister town of Kharkiv. The issue of new relations between Kharkiv and Iraq were discussed in city town-hall at the meeting with the Embassy of Iraq in Ukraine.
Seven NATO member countries have signed a deal to create a research centre aimed at protecting the alliance against cybercrime. The agreement involves three Baltic nations, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, along with Germany, Italy, Spain and Slovakia.
An invasion of panda bears has helped launch the 61st Cannes Film Festival, which is getting under way in France. Comic actor Jack Black arrived by boat with 40 people in giant panda outfits to promote Kung Fu Panda, an
Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has warned President Viktor Yuschenko about the possibility of breaking up their partnership if the President's Secretariat and the pro-presidential forces in the Verkhovna Rada block the work of the Cabinet of Ministers.
A consultant to Sen. John McCain hired a public-relations firm last year to burnish the U.S. image of a Ukrainian political party backed by Russian leader Vladimir Putin, according to documents filed with the Justice Department.
A powerful aftershock from Monday's earthquake in the southwest Chinese province of Sichuan hit the regional capital Chengdu on Tuesday, official news agency Xinhua reported.
Ukraine has taken 76th place among 177 countries in 2007 according to Human Development Index. (In 2006 Ukraine took 77th place among 177 countries of the world.
In Britain, a law to allow human and animal material to be combined in embryos, to help find cures for disease, has passed its first parliamentary hurdle.
The most powerful earthquake to hit China in 30 years has killed at least 10,000 people in south-western Sichuan province, with thousands more trapped.
At least 22 people have been killed and at least 150 injured after deadly tornados ripped through three Midwest U.S. states, national media reported on Monday.
