Kiev  - Two Ukrainians died and eight were injured in an amusement park ride accident, the Interfax news agency reported Saturday.

Kiev- A Russo-Ukrainian row was averted Friday with US marines taking part in a World War II memorial march, Channel 5 television reported.

Russian naval officials in the Ukrainian port of Sevastopol, the home base for Russia's Black Sea fleet, had intended to hold a parade of warships in the bay on Friday.

But the Sevastpol city government banned the event.

The naval parade had been intended by the Kremlin to mark the 63rd anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe (VE Day), and simultaneously, the 225th anniversary of the founding of the Russian Black Sea fleet.

Kiev - Ukrainian border police on Thursday seized a Turkish national and his lorry loaded with cocaine worth as much as 14.2 million dollars, the Interfax news agency reported.

Kiev - The Kremlin and the Ukrainian government exchanged diplomatic salv

Kiev/Moscow  - Twenty-two years after the atomic reactor disaster in Chernobyl, people in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus held memorials to the victims Saturday.

Kiev - Emergency workers evacuated dozens of residents of a rural Ukrainia