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Ukraine: Swine Flu mania in Kyiv
November 03, 2009By Irene Chalupa Upon landing at Kyiv’s Boryspil airport on Sunday afternoon, I was met by Ukrainian passport-control personnel in surgical masks. I suddenly noticed that a number of people on line were also wearing masks of various sizes...
Romania opens two new consular offices in Moldova
November 03, 2009Romanian President Traian Basescu on Monday signed the decrees on opening of Romanian general consulates in Cahul and Balti, in the Republic of Moldova, reads a release of the Presidential Administration. On October 20, the Romanian and Moldovan authorities...
U.N. Committee against Torture to talk about Moldova
November 03, 2009The United Nations Committee Against Torture has opened its 43rd session in Geneva. During the opening, Secretary-General Ibrahim Salama, Chief of the Human Rights and Treaty Branch of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights...
Torture victims and witnesses need state's protection in Moldova
November 03, 2009To accelerate detection of crimes, the State ought to ensure a reliable protection for torture victims and torture witnesses to thus let them speak out truth during and after investigation, presumes Deputy Director of the Institute for Penitentiary Reforms...
Ten more swine flu cases confirmed in Moldova
November 03, 2009Ten more cases of the influenza A (H1N1) virus have been confirmed in Moldova for the last two days. Thus, the total number of persons, infected with the swine flu, reached 28 people, one of them was a man aged 50 died. According to the Ministry of Health...
Swine Flu: Ukrainian hospitals to distribute Tamiflu for free
November 03, 2009Ukrainian hospitals will start distributing Tamiflu among the population this week in an effort to help people who have the flu, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports. The medicine -- which is known to be effective against swine flu -- was flown to Ukraine...
Romanian parliament simplifies citizenship acquiring procedure
October 31, 2009The Parliament of Romania has approved the amendments to the Citizenship Law, proposed by Romanian President Traian Basescu and making the citizenship acquiring procedure substantially easier for Republic of Moldova residents. In its new shape, the Law...
Moldova: 7 years jail time for human trafficking
October 31, 2009Alexandr Plohotniuc, a 28-year-old man from Republic of Moldova, was condemned by a Chisinau Law Court to seven years’ imprisonment. He was accused by prosecutors of human trafficking. According to prosecutors, Alexandr Plohotniuc went to Ungheni...
Sperm whale feasting on a giant squid (rare images)
October 28, 2009They are creatures of the deep immortalised in fictional bestsellers like Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick and Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. But these ultra-rare images of a colossal sperm whale feeding on a giant squid are the real thing...
Where's the best place to live? Prosperity index offers surprises
October 28, 2009By Breffni O'Rourke What's your idea of the best place in which to live? Many people would probably answer that palm trees and a gleaming beach would be a good start to their idea of earthly paradise. But in real life, the country which scores best...