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Woken up without explanation and carried to a police vehicle on a stretcher, former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has been moved from a Kiev prison to a remote prison colony about 300 miles east of the capital on Friday, her party said.

The pipeline will carry Russian gas under the Black Sea into Europe.

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Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's guilty verdict and seven-year jail sentence was upheld Friday by a Ukrainian appeals court.

Scarce dollar funding and a retrenchment in bank lending will force up premiums for emerging market countries and companies refinancing debt next year, adding to strains on public finances and potentially triggering a surge in corporate defaults.

Epam Systems Inc, an IT services provider with operations in Russia, is aiming to move ahead with its planned U.S. initial public offering in the first quarter of next year, two sources familiar with the situation said on Monday.

Lindsay Lohan's Playboy spread was either hacked or stolen from the magazine and uploaded to a file-sharing and file-storage service on the Web site Worldmags.net, a digital magazine clearinghouse based out of the Ukraine, then leaked, according to FoxNews.com.

England avoid a difficult group.

The Euro 2012 draw took place Germany, Netherlands and Portugal all tied together in the so-called 'Group of Death' while reigning champions Spain faces a Italy in Group C.

The final preparations are underway at the eight lucky venues, across Poland and Ukraine, to host the 2012 UEFA European Championships, which will kick off on June 8 next year.

Fans of the English national team have been set a new ticket limit by the organizers of the 2012 European soccer championships; they will be allocated only 5,000 seats for the quarter and semi-finals, assuming Fabio Capello's men actually reach that stage.

Tours to Chernobyl, erupting African volcanoes, and earthquake-ravaged cities highlight a bizarre trend of disaster tourism in 2011.

European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek has expressed his support for Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine’s ex-prime minister, who was convicted on abuse of power charges and jailed for seven years.

Moscow will have the rights to raise the price of gas in the coming years.

In the wake of the mystery surrounding Lisa Irwin's disappearance, there is news of another missing baby who, like Lisa, seems to have disappeared under unusual and suspicious circumstances. The baby, Sky Metalwala, 2, disappeared, according to his mother, Julia Biryukova, from the rear seat of her car, in Bellevue.

Despite mounting pressure from the U.S. and the European Union, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has insisted on keeping former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko imprisoned on a conviction of power abuse.

It was unclear what exact steps the Treasury planned for Iran but it seemed unlikely it would seek to cut off the Iranian financial sector entirely, a move that could disrupt the global energy markets and harm the U.S. economic recovery.

All types of people are getting in on Ukranian real estate -- even Star Wars villain Darth Vader.

The United Arab Emirates, the world's fourth-largest oil exporter and home to gold trading hub Dubai, is rapidly becoming a force in trade of another highly valuable commodity: diamonds.

Ukraine's parliament on Tuesday rejected a move to downgrade the abuse-of-power offence under which former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko has been jailed, dealing a blow to prospects of an early release for the charismatic opposition leader.

The World Bank's private-sector lender plans to work more closely with Intel, the world's top chipmaker, to invest in technology firms in developing countries, a senior World Bank official said on Monday.