News for 28 January 2010
World news
28 January 2010 [20:44]
The index is prepared by U.S. Yale and Columbia universities, and announced within the scope of Davos meetings.
28 January 2010 [19:47]
Heavy snowfall and freezing weather conditions have paralyzed life and traffic in most parts of Turkey.
28 January 2010 [19:35]
The leader of the Republican Party Davit Usupashvili says the opposition party and the Alliance for Georgia continued carrying out activities for improving election environment in the country.
28 January 2010 [19:23]
In his first State of Union address to Congress, US President Barack Obama warned Iran that it will face "growing consequences" over its nuclear work if ignores its “obligations.”
28 January 2010 [19:03]
28 January 2010 [18:55]
Pakistan has deported seven Turkish citizens who were arrested by the security agencies on various charges, Pakistani newspaper reported.
28 January 2010 [18:47]
Iran said Thursday it was studying the appeals of nine people who have been handed the death penalty over their involvements in plots against the Islamic Republic following the June presidential election.
28 January 2010 [18:13]
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates will pay a visit to Turkey next week to attend a NATO meeting.
28 January 2010 [18:06]
The control on food product will be reinforced in Georgia.
28 January 2010 [17:47]
Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki says the Islamic Republic has conducted transactions worth USD 200 million with Armenia in 2009.
28 January 2010 [17:34]
Turkish Minister of Industry and Trade, Nihat Ergun, said Wednesday trade and investments with Iraq continue at a high speed.
28 January 2010 [17:25]
Pakistani Federal Minister for Petroleum Naveed Qamar has declared that the US has no objection to an agreement between Iran and Pakistan to build a natural gas pipeline.
28 January 2010 [17:04]
Russia assesses the request of Georgian government to substitute Russian forces by international police forces in its occupied zones as a new provocation.
28 January 2010 [16:38]
On Jan. 29, a charity concert and marketplace will take place at UN Conference Hall in central Yerevan.
28 January 2010 [16:21]
Turkey has "strongly" warned Israel at the United Nations Security Council for that country's policy and activities against the Palestinians.
28 January 2010 [16:05]
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Wednesday that Tehran will not attend the Afghanistan conference in London.
28 January 2010 [16:00]
Catholic Patriarch of Georgia Illia the Second will leave for Germany on Jan. 28.
28 January 2010 [15:34]
In 2009, Armenia's GDP, expressed in US dollars, dropped 30-32 percetnt, former Central Bank Director, Bagrat Asatryan, said at a meeting with journalists.
28 January 2010 [15:28]
PACE has asked Turkey and Greece on Wednesday to treat religious minorities in compliance with the European Convention on Human Rights.
28 January 2010 [15:13]
28 January 2010 [15:04]
Two German nationals who have been arrested in Iran in connection with the post-election unrest in the country were police officers who worked at the embassy, German news agency dpa has confirmed.
28 January 2010 [14:47]
28 January 2010 [14:33]
Davutoglu and Clinton, who both are in London to attend an international conference on Afghanistan, had a 15-minute brief meeting, diplomats said.
28 January 2010 [14:05]
Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki will declare the country's initiatives for solving the global economic crisis, the foreign ministry spokesman says.
28 January 2010 [13:57]
NATO Secretary General plans to visit Georgia.
28 January 2010 [13:54]
28 January 2010 [13:22]
Premier League side Tottenham Hotspur's Mexican striker Giovani Dos Santos joined Turkey's Galatasaray on loan, Turkish club said on Wednesday.
28 January 2010 [13:12]
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan received Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottak, who was in Yerevan to take part in the 9th meeting of Armenian-Iranian intergovernmental commission, on Jan. 27.
28 January 2010 [13:08]
Iran executed two people who were convicted of carrying a deadly bombing in the southern city of Shiraz in 2008 that killed 13 civilians.
28 January 2010 [12:52]
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen met with Georgian Parliamentary Chairman Davit Bakradze in Brussels on Jan. 27.
28 January 2010 [12:48]
The European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday adopted a draft motion for a resolution on Turkey's progress report 2009.
28 January 2010 [12:25]
28 January 2010 [12:08]
A senior Iranian lawmaker has voiced Iran's readiness to get engaged in close security cooperation with other countries in the Middle East.
28 January 2010 [12:00]
Most residents of the Georgian capital support plans of the government to accede to NATO, the survey conducted upon the order of the Information Centre of NATO in Georgia said.
28 January 2010 [11:57]
Turkey and Iraq agreed to organize an agriculture and stockbreeding fair in Iraq, Turkish Agriculture Minister Mehdi Eker said on Wednesday.
28 January 2010 [11:15]
“The Armenian Government’s policy and actions are not in line with the present situation,” member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) parliamentary faction Ara Nranyan told reporters.
28 January 2010 [10:51]
As Iranian lawmakers push for a bill to downgrade ties with London, Britain's envoy to Tehran said in an interview that his country is not happy with the proposal.
28 January 2010 [10:45]
The Georgian government has adopted a state strategy regarding the occupied territories entitled "Involvement through Cooperation."
28 January 2010 [10:37]
Local media said prosecutors were demanding life in prison for five officers.
28 January 2010 [10:13]
A trilateral meeting of Armenia-Russia-Iran working group on Iran-Armenia railway construction was held in Yerevan on Jan. 27.
28 January 2010 [09:47]
Chinese FM Jiechi praises Turkey, that respected the sovereignty and territorial integrity in a clear reference to what Uighurs call East Turkistan.
Analytics
28 January 2010 [15:00]
Weird / Interesting
28 January 2010 [17:00]
Ha Mok-min is feeling like a gunslinger these days. At the English-language cram school she attends during the winter break, students jealous of her international bragging rights line up to duel with her.
28 January 2010 [11:26]
Anybody want to share a bottle of red? A group of Chinese winemakers have claimed the new world record for the world's biggest ever bottle of wine.
Politics
28 January 2010 [20:25]
There is a coordinated document to cancel the visa regime between Azerbaijan and Turkey, Turkey's ambassador to Azerbaijan Hulusi Kilic said.
28 January 2010 [20:18]
Before the London conference on Afghanistan, Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov discussed with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton settlement of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno Karabakh conflict.
28 January 2010 [20:09]
Azerbaijani parliamentarians Ganira Pashayeva and Zahid Oruj, who are visiting US, met with the representatives of the Department of State.
28 January 2010 [18:50]
Azerbaijani Minister of Industry and Energy Natig Aliyev attends a round table meeting on contribution of Azerbaijan and Turkey to energy markets started today in London.
28 January 2010 [18:28]
28 January 2010 [18:00]
Armenia can freeze negotiations with Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh conflict if this question is disconnected from the issue of opening Turkish-Armenian border, said the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev.
28 January 2010 [17:45]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said a lot of questions that are not answered for quite a lot of time remain over the Nabucco gas pipeline project.
28 January 2010 [16:53]
28 January 2010 [16:42]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev met Thursday with President of Latvia Valdis Zatlers on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
28 January 2010 [14:52]
Day.Az interview with Russian lawyer, deputy head of the Law Department of the Moscow Physical-Technical Institute and official of the Just Cause Party Boris Nadezhdin.
28 January 2010 [14:13]
Cory Welt, associate director of the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, expressed his opinion expressed his opinion on the possible movements in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution.
28 January 2010 [14:00]
“War is the only way to return Azerbaijan’s occupied lands,” Azerbaijani political expert Araz Alizade said.
28 January 2010 [13:42]
Head of the OSCE Office in Baku Ali Bilge Cankorel will be visiting the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic on Jan. 28-29.
28 January 2010 [13:18]
New Georgian ambassador to Azerbaijan Vano Noniashvili has resigned.
28 January 2010 [13:00]
Azerbaijani MPs Ganira Pashayeva and Zahid Oruj, who are on visit to the U.S., participated in the popular television program devoted to Azerbaijan.
28 January 2010 [11:50]
28 January 2010 [11:32]
OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Kazakhstan's Minister of Foreign Affairs Kanat Saudabayev will pay a 2-day visit to Azerbaijan next month.
28 January 2010 [11:00]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has Wednesday given an interview in Davos to The Wall Street Journal newspaper's correspondents.
28 January 2010 [10:00]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev met CEO of Edison Umberto Quadrino in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 27.
28 January 2010 [09:58]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev met Vice-President of Chevron Corporation Jay Pryor in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 27.
28 January 2010 [09:21]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev gave an interview to the Bloomberg News Agency`s correspondent Yuriy Humber on Jan. 27.
28 January 2010 [08:00]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev met Slovenian counterpart Danilo Turk in Switzerland on Jan. 27.
Business
28 January 2010 [18:55]
28 January 2010 [10:23]
Azerbaijan`s President Ilham Aliyev met CEO of RWE Juergen Grossman in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 27.
28 January 2010 [09:35]
28 January 2010 [08:30]
Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev met BP's Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 27.
Photo Galleries
28 January 2010 [22:00]
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Society
28 January 2010 [17:51]
A meeting of Azerbaijan and Egyptian writers took place Wednesday at the Union of Writers.
28 January 2010 [15:43]
Representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) mission in Azerbaijan met with Elmar Tagiyev, the son of resident of Azerbaijan’s Tovuz region Eldar Tagiyev.
28 January 2010 [15:20]
Banking and financial sector leaders will be asked to join the global fight against child exploitation and pornography if Azerbaijan agrees to ratify a Council of Europe treaty.
28 January 2010 [12:14]
Azerbaijan's Youth and Sport Ministry and National Youth Organization of Iran have today inked an executive plan of the Memorandum on the youth policy cooperation signed last year.
Sports
28 January 2010 [20:38]
28 January 2010 [19:15]
An international conference and chess tournament in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the “Maccabi-Azerbaijan” Jewish Cultural and Sport Society will take place here in autumn.
28 January 2010 [17:30]
28 January 2010 [17:11]
Arts & Entertainment
28 January 2010 [20:59]
Ashlee Simpson-Wentz has reportedly decided to take a break from her career to focus on being a mother.
28 January 2010 [19:56]
The family of Nancy Kerrigan's father, who died Sunday after allegedly being attacked by his son, Mark, held a wake Wednesday in Stoneham, Mass., where mourners assembled in a line a block long.
28 January 2010 [18:32]
28 January 2010 [17:40]
David Beckham has admitted that he still feels "quite shy" when he sees billboards featuring his image.
28 January 2010 [15:54]
Brittany Murphy's husband Simon Monjack reportedly plans to file a wrongful death lawsuit against Warner Bros.
28 January 2010 [14:58]
28 January 2010 [14:26]
28 January 2010 [13:35]
Orlando Bloom will not be reprising his role in the next Pirates Of The Caribbean movie, the actor has revealed.
28 January 2010 [12:33]
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28 January 2010 [10:06]
