 RFE/RL Headlines 11/10/2009 6:55:45 PM A daily digest of the English-language news and analysis written by the staff of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |
| News  IEA Predicts Natural Gas Prices Will Fall The coming years could see the price of natural gas fall as demand weakens but new supplies keep flowing into the market. That is according to a report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) published today. The annual report, which is used by many governments to help set energy policies, suggests that major gas exporters like Russia, Iran, and Qatar will be particularly affected. More  Obama To Attend Fort Hood Memorial As Probe Continues President Barack Obama is expected to speak today at a memorial service at Fort Hood, Texas, for the 13 U.S. soldiers and others gunned down in a rampage allegedly committed by a U.S. Army psychiatrist. More  North and South Korean Warships Exchange Fire Warships from North and South Korea exchanged fire off the west coast of the Korean Peninsula today. More Moscow Police Arrest Two In Killing Of Kyrgyz Man The suspects were detained in Moscow Oblast's Ramen district and charged in the murder of a 40-year-old Kyrgyz man who was found stabbed to death on November 3 in a forest near the Russian town of Rybkhoz. More  Eyewitness Says Explosion Started Deadly Kazakh Fire Kazakh officials are investigating a fire in a warehouse in Astana on November 9 that killed at least 14 people, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports. More  Azerbaijani Official Sues Editor Critical Of Interior Ministry Azerbaijani Interior Minister Ramil Usubov has filed a libel lawsuit against lawyer and newspaper editor Eyyub Karimov, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service reports. More  Ukrainian Leaders Say Swine Flu Under Control Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has said after meeting with a World Health Organization (WHO) delegation in Kyiv that the country's flu epidemic is stabilizing, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports. More Officials in the Russian Far East's Khabarovsk Krai have begun fining organizations and companies that do not follow "mask regime" requirements, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports. More A Russian health official says the number of swine-flu patients in the country is increasing, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports. More  Fire At Astana Warehouse Kills At Least 16 At least 16 workers were killed by a fire at an Astana warehouse filled with plastic-foam materials, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports. More  Conference Set On Rebuilding Afghan Buddha Statues An international conference to help reconstruct Afghanistan's ancient Buddha statues destroyed by the Taliban will be held in Kabul, RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan reports. More  Armenian, Azerbaijani Leaders Agree To Meet Again International mediators say the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed to hold talks on the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute later this month, RFE/RL's Armenian Service reports. More  Starting Iran's Basij Young A leader of Iran's Student Basij organization has announced that 6,000 Basij units will be created in Iran’s elementary schools. More  Ukrainian Women Protest Flu Panic Wearing Only Surgical Masks A Ukrainian women's group, FEMEN, took to the streets of Kyiv on November 9 to protest what they see as swine-flu hysteria. More  Whistleblower Brings Accusations To Moscow As his allegations of widespread police corruption shake Russia's political elite, police major Aleksei Dymovsky has arrived in Moscow to elaborate on his claims. The police officer claimed to have hours of incriminating recordings proving that his superiors and colleagues ordered false arrests and drug plants on innocent suspects. More  Swine Flu Follies As the swine-flu virus continues to spread through the Balkans and the former Soviet Union, the measures taken by some governments range from bizarre and befuddled to seemingly political. More  Prominent Russian Actor Igor Starygin Dies At 63 Prominent Russian actor Igor Starygin died of complications from a stroke at the age of 63 on November 8, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports. More |
