UKRANIAN OPPOSITION LEADER TYMOSHENKO MEETS WITH HER SUPPORTERS

Shell has agreed to sell LNG to China; Turkey will ship oil to Israel, India; Ukraine's Naftogaz will repay Russia.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Sen. Hillary Clinton had better order up lots of late night coffee and round-the-clock pizza when she replaces Condoleezza Rice as secretary of state: Around the world, threats to U.S. national security and global interests have metastasized. Cleaning up those messes will make mucking out the Augean Stables look easy.

MOSCOW, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- Russian gas giant Gazprom said it would at least double the gas export price to Ukraine if its state-owned Naftogaz does not settle its debts, officials said.

BAKU, Azerbaijan, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Energy security and improvements in the infrastructure in Azerbaijan may bring several areas to light for regional cooperation, the Azeri president said Friday.

OXFORD, England, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- As the economic model promoted by Viktor Yushchenko and his Western sponsors wallows in depression, Ukrainians may ask whether the Orange Revolution marked the rebirth of their country or the last gasp of ideologically driven politicians. After all, for seven decades Kiev's political class followed the Kremlin's lead blindly. Under Yushchenko it was the White House that laid down the ideological path for Kiev to follow. The coming months will decide whether Ukrainians will finally break the shackles imposed by dogmatic models -- communist before 1991 and so-called capitalist since 2004.

MOSCOW, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- Top officials with the Ukrainian state-owned energy firm, Naftogaz, arrived in Moscow Tuesday to discuss a long-term gas deal with Gazprom.

Nabucco agreements expected early next year; Ukraine oil supplies in doubt; Pakistan anxious over IPI progress.

KIEV, Ukraine, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Ukraine President Viktor Yushchenko says he's sticking to his call for early elections to resolve the country's political impasse.

KIEV, Ukraine, Oct. 16 (UPI) -- Ukraine may borrow $15 billion from the International Monetary Fund to "strengthen its position" during the global fiscal crisis, an official said Thursday.

KIEV, Ukraine, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Elections in Ukraine, set for Dec. 7, have been postponed indefinitely in order to benefit the majority of the country's political parties, a top official says.