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26 January 2010 [19:20]
26 January 2010 [19:09]
Cavusoglu met with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou who arrived in Strasbourg to address the PACE General Assembly.
26 January 2010 [18:47]
European Union foreign ministers have announced that they will not clamp new sanctions against Iran unless the UN Security Council calls for the measure.
26 January 2010 [18:39]
An Israeli report targets Turkey's PM known for backing efforts to end Gaza sufferings and his criticism of Israel's deadly attacks on Palestinians.
26 January 2010 [18:29]
The 8th meeting of the Armenian-Georgian intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation is being held in Yerevan.
26 January 2010 [18:24]
State-owned Indian Oil Corp. is asking the government in New Delhi to back a proposal to purchase at least a 20 percent interest in Iran's South Pars gas field.
26 January 2010 [18:14]
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov will pay a formal visit to Turkey on January 29 and 30.
26 January 2010 [18:05]
26 January 2010 [17:52]
Iran Foreign Ministry spokesman said National Security Council and foreign policy committee is reviewing future relations with Britain.
26 January 2010 [17:45]
Officials with the Edirne Municipality said Tuesday they expected snowfall to continue in the next three days.
26 January 2010 [16:56]
PACE Committee on rules of procedure confirmed Armenian delegation’s credentials on Jan. 26 session, the parliament source said.
26 January 2010 [16:43]
A single tender will take place for the marinas in the first half of 2010.
26 January 2010 [16:38]
Bank Melli Iran (BMI) is the largest bank in Iran and across the Islamic world, considering its total assets of around $54bn, a BMI official says.
26 January 2010 [16:25]
A Georgian national has committed a suicide in one of the insulators of the Moscow police, Russian sources have reported.
26 January 2010 [15:24]
Ambassador Huseyin Dirioz, currently the top foreign policy aide to the Turkish president, is among the four candidates who run for the post.
26 January 2010 [15:15]
Time of intensified banking activity will come soon in Armenia, Ararat Ghukasyan, chairman of Armenian Union of Banks told journalists.
26 January 2010 [15:04]
Iran's labor and social affairs minister says the country has failed to decrease the jobless rate to below 7 percent due to "the crises and global sanctions."
26 January 2010 [14:36]
26 January 2010 [14:18]
Armenia will return to a stage of steady economic development this year, Armenian Minister of Finance Tigran Davtyan told a press conference.
26 January 2010 [14:07]
On Jan. 25, U.S. ex-Congressmen held a number of meetings in Georgian Parliament.
26 January 2010 [13:34]
Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani offers condolences to his Lebanese counterpart Nabih Berri on the crash of an Ethiopian plane off the coast of Lebanon.
26 January 2010 [13:22]
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has called to boost cooperation between Turkey, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
26 January 2010 [13:00]
"Some 48 percent of students avoid army service for different reasons in Armenia,” Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan said during a meeting with Yerevan State University students.
26 January 2010 [12:56]
Grigol Vashadze, Foreign Minister of Georgia, will participate in an international conference to be held under the aegis of NATO in London on Jan. 27-28.
26 January 2010 [12:43]
Iran on Monday summoned the Swiss envoy to Tehran over the alleged involvement of a US-based terror group in the killing of a nuclear physics professor in Tehran.
26 January 2010 [12:32]
Turkish State Minister Zafer Caglayan said Monday Iraq offered great opportunities for investors.
26 January 2010 [12:03]
The Armenian Statistical Service reported a 14.4-percent decline in the gross domestic product in Armenia in 2009.
26 January 2010 [11:47]
Georgia hopes to obtain permission to conduct youth Olympics in 2015.
26 January 2010 [11:33]
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has praised the Mauritanian government for breaking diplomatic ties with Israel.
26 January 2010 [11:10]
Temperatures in several parts of Turkey will go down below -15 degrees Celsius.
26 January 2010 [10:55]
25 January 2010 [22:05]
Iranian retail stores will distribute Brazilian freeze meat to customers for maintaining protein market and meat products.
25 January 2010 [21:00]
The Head of Iran's Gas Transportation Company says Kuwait has expressed an interest in linking its gas network to Iran's nationwide gas transport system.
25 January 2010 [20:50]
Thirteen Georgian sailors, detained in the Philippines, have been released, Levan Akhvlediani, said co-founder of the Georgia-Philippines Business and Friendship Association.
25 January 2010 [20:30]
Turkish State Minister Cevdet Yilmaz said on Monday that Turkey's population got older in 2009 compared to 2008.
25 January 2010 [20:15]
Iraq has signed a final deal with U.S. and European oil giants Exxon Mobil Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell PLC to develop a major oil field in the south.
25 January 2010 [19:24]
After admitting to spying for the US during the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, Canada's former ambassador to Tehran expounds on the controversial revelations in an exclusive interview with Press TV.
25 January 2010 [19:18]
Georgia has established diplomatic relations with Cape Verde and Dominican Republic.
25 January 2010 [19:00]
Iranian ambassador said on Monday they told Iranian authorities that auto factory should be opened in the northwestern province of Bursa in Turkey.
25 January 2010 [18:56]
At its winter session that opened in Strasbourg on Jan. 25, the CE Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) confirmed the powers of all the national delegations except for the Armenian and Albanian delegations.
25 January 2010 [18:50]
25 January 2010 [18:45]
Iranian Minister of Road and Transportation Hamid Behbahani has said "human error" caused the crash of a Russian-made passenger airplane and a train accident in northeastern Iran.
25 January 2010 [18:28]
A group of Chechen families who fled to Turkey after the Russian invasion of Chechnya struggle in difficult conditions.
25 January 2010 [18:23]
Georgian delegation headed by Prime Minister Nikoloz Gilauri will arrive on a one-day visit to Armenia on Jan. 26.
25 January 2010 [18:06]
25 January 2010 [18:00]
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on expansion of relations and cooperation between Iran and Malaysia.
25 January 2010 [17:34]
Turkey's Culture and Tourism Ministry brought 151 cultural assets back to the country in 2009.
25 January 2010 [17:29]
25 January 2010 [17:21]
Member of the Armenia’s Heritage parliamentary faction Zarui Postanjian has left for Strasbourg to take part in the PACE winter session, head of the Heritage faction Styopa Safaryan said.
25 January 2010 [16:41]
Iran's Economy and Finance Minister says based on Iran's fifth development plan, there is no limit on foreign investment in Iranian industrial or mineral sectors.
25 January 2010 [16:28]
Today, Chairman of the Turkish delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Movlud Cavushoglu was elected new PACE President.
25 January 2010 [16:13]
A fourth person was found dead Sunday due to a fierce snowstorm that caused power outages in Turkey and traffic chaos in neighboring Bulgaria.
25 January 2010 [15:48]
25 January 2010 [15:35]
Ukraine`s Central Election Commission will discuss the issue of Georgian observers later today.
25 January 2010 [15:12]
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he will soon give "good news" regarding the 20-percent enriched fuel needed for a medical research reactor in Tehran.
25 January 2010 [15:05]
Turkey's statistics body, TUIK, made public on Monday the census results for 2009.
25 January 2010 [14:53]
European Union president Spain thinks that Turkey belongs in the 27-country bloc, Spanish FM Moratinos said in an interview.
25 January 2010 [14:23]
The Head of the National Iranian Gas Export Company says Pakistan has agreed to secure the transfer of Iran's exporting gas to India via its soil.
25 January 2010 [13:45]
Arinc will deliver a speech Tuesday at the conference held under the "Friends of Democratic Pakistan" event.
25 January 2010 [13:26]
Nine Abkhaz children, whose families fled the occupied Abkhazian Region of Georgia two months ago, joined studies at the public school No. 168 in Tbilisi on Jan. 25.
25 January 2010 [13:05]
The Iranian Navy has sent a fifth fleet of warships to the pirate-infested Gulf of Aden to defend the country's vessels and oil tankers against continued attacks by Somali raiders.
25 January 2010 [12:44]
Turkey's main pro-Kurdish party urged the Council of Europe to maintain its commitment to political rights.
25 January 2010 [12:22]
The speaker of Georgian parliament Davit Bakradze is on an official visit to Brussels, where he will hold meeting with the chairperson of the House of Representatives of the European Parliament.
25 January 2010 [12:08]
The National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of Iran's Parliament (Majlis) is considering downgrading ties with Britain over London's interference in Tehran's internal affairs.
25 January 2010 [11:53]
25 January 2010 [11:52]
U.S. ex -Congressmen will visit Georgia with a visit on Jan. 25-27.
25 January 2010 [11:45]
Turkish Cypriot President Mehmet Ali Talat arrived in Istanbul.
25 January 2010 [11:07]
Iran's minister of roads and transportation has declared that the Iranian airlines will no longer be allowed to buy cheap or old airplanes.
25 January 2010 [10:36]
A Turkish parliamentarian will be elected new president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe for the first time in history.
25 January 2010 [09:53]
At least 46 passengers on board an Iranian airliner have been injured as the plane catches fire while trying to land in the Mashhad airport.
25 January 2010 [09:45]
President Karzai of Afghanistan has arrived in Istanbul.
23 January 2010 [16:55]
An Iranian lawmaker says the Parliament (Majlis) has settled on limiting relations with Britain, rather than a full severance of ties as advocated in a bill last week.
23 January 2010 [16:48]
Davutoglu expressed Turkey's concerns about Armenian Constitutional Court's reasoned verdict to Clinton over the phone.
23 January 2010 [16:24]
"1.2 per cent economic growth in Armenia is modest, but a real figure, although it is difficult to say, will it be reached or exceeded," head of the OSCE Yerevan office Sergey Kapinos said.
23 January 2010 [16:03]
A charity concert with participation of opera stars like Marcelo Alvares, Amborgio Maestri and others was held in Tbilisi on Jan. 22.
China has 3.6 mln medical doctors
EU eyes for new gas supplies from Azerbaijan
Islamic Development Bank mission visits Uzbekistan
Sri Lanka government declares curfew, shuts down access to major social media sites
Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Turkey to cooperate in alternative energy
Death toll from Sri Lanka's multiple blasts rises to 185, 469 injured (UPDATED)
Water level of Urmia Lake increases by 70 centimeters