The speaker also called for Ukraine's cooperation with NATO in the sector of utilization of ammunition.

Ukrainian News learned this from the results of the poll.

As Ukrainian News earlier reported, on Monday, December 29, Yuschenko signed 2009 national budget.

Many unsatisfied people remain in Minsk, where tax will be doubled.

Foreign Minister of Lithuania Vygaudas U ackas has urged the Belarusian authorities to continue democratic reforms.

Former political prisoners, convicted in the Case of 14, called the most important, in their views, event of 2008.

Mahilyou city executive committee denied to youth activists a right to fix a sign board dedicated to the Belarusian People's Republic (BNR) on the building of the local history museum.

The Council of the Federation ratified the Agreement on peace keeping activity of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).

An activist of "For Freedom" movement Zmitser Kukhlyaj has been fired from furniture plant "Mastoudreu".

In Navapolatsk, an office of local human rights activists was attacked - shutters were damaged and swastika was drawn on the wall.

The Kremlin does not confirm Lukashenka's statement about a decision to give Belarus additional tranche of loan in February.

S. patrons. This process is probably irreversible because Brussels and Washington are ready to dump Saakashvili, who staged the so-called Rose Revolution in November 2003, and to support a new candidate instead. Saakashvili has become Russia's main antagonist in the

Downing Street is "appalled" by violence in Gaza and is urging an immediate ceasefire as air strikes continue.

The family of a missing cruise ship passenger said Monday that they suspect the woman "chose an unfortunate ending to her life" and jumped from a cruise ship balcony into the waters off Mexico's coast on Christmas night.

If you hit the malls this weekend you saw that desperate retailers were slashing prices in an effort to move inventory and push shoppers to open their wallets ... but will it be enough to turn business around?

Some water samples near a massive spill of coal ash in eastern Tennessee are showing high levels of arsenic, and state and federal officials on Monday cautioned residents who use private wells or springs to stop drinking the water.

Search teams recovered the bodies of seven snowmobilers Monday, a dayafter they were swept away by avalanches in western Canada'sbackcountry, police said. An eighth man was missing and believed dead.

There is plenty around the country that needs fixing, reports CBS News correspondent Hari Sreenivasan. InWest Palm Beach, Judith Montrone is not waiting for the other shoe todrop. Instead, she is dropping off her shoes for repair.

Wall Street has ended an erratic session with a moderate loss ascontinuing violence in the Middle East reminded investors that themarket could face problems beyond the recession. The collapse of a DowChemical Co. joint venture, meanwhile, intensified Wall Street'seconomic worries.

The 18-year-old daughter of former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has given birth in Alaska to a son. Peoplemagazine reports that Bristol Palin gave birth to Tripp Easton MitchellJohnston on Sunday. He weighed 7 pounds, 4 ounces.