Ukraine Government Cancels Meeting Amid Protest
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Ukraine's government canceled a meeting on Wednesday after president-elect Viktor Yushchenko's supporters massed outside the building to keep out his beaten opponent, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich.
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NATO has postponed a meeting due on  Thursday between its foreign ministers and their Ukrainian  counterpart but will seek early talks with a foreign minister  of a "new and legitimate" Ukraine government, NATO sources  said.
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KYIV, Ukraine  - Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko agreed Wednesday to call off a blockade of government buildings by thousands of supporters, but urged them to stay in the streets until the government agrees to repeat the disputed run-off in the presidential election.
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NATO has postponed a Thursday meeting  between its foreign ministers and their Ukrainian counterpart,  to avoid high-level contacts with a government accused of  election fraud, NATO sources said.
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Ukraine&#39;s Parliament passed a vote of non-confidence on Wednesday, bringing down Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych&#39;s government as the two presidential contenders met with international mediators to seek a way out of the spiralling
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Opposition supporters in Ukraine continue to block key government buildings, after the first meeting between two presidential rivals ended without agreement and amid opposition threats of "action" if the election dispute is not resolved within days.
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Ukraine&#39;s parliament has voted to ask President Leonid Kuchma to dismiss the government of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych to help end a political crisis triggered by a contested presidential election.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell abruptly  canceled plans to attend the Olympics closing ceremony in  Athens on Sunday, a visit which had triggered angry protests  from anti-war groups.
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KIEV, Ukraine  - Ukraine's central election  commission put off a meeting Tuesday to finalize paperwork from  last month's presidential election, leaving plans to inaugurate  liberal Viktor Yushchenko in limbo for another day.
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Ukraine's parliament is due to hold an emergency session to discuss the political turmoil caused by the disputed presidential election.
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Ukraine's shivering but determined political opposition dug in its heels in Kiev's frigid central square Tuesday, rejecting an offer of the prime minister's job from the declared winner of disputed presidential election and withdrawing from talks aimed at reaching a compromise.
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KIEV - Supporters of Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko blockaded the government compound in Kiev on Wednesday, preventing Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych from holding a cabinet meeting.
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Ukraine's parliament on Wednesday voted to  sack the government of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich,  boosting opposition efforts to end a political crisis triggered  by his contested election last month as president.
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Ukraine's government decided not to meet  at its headquarters Wednesday after demonstrators massed  outside to prevent Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich from  entering.
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LEONID KUCHMA, the Ukrainian President, cancelled a visit to Poland at the last minute and appealed for calm yesterday because of mounting tension in the week before an election to choose his successor.
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A top Ukrainian opposition leader, quoted by Interfax-Ukraine news agency, said supporters of presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko had withdrawn from talks on last week's disputed election.
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NATO is set to cancel a meeting of its foreign ministers with the Ukrainian foreign minister scheduled for Thursday to avoid high-level contacts with a government accused of election fraud, diplomats said.