News for 11 February 2010
World news
11 February 2010 [20:09]
A Turkish court has sentenced the editor of a Kurdish newspaper to 21 years in prison for "printing PKK propaganda".
11 February 2010 [19:32]
11 February 2010 [19:22]
The Turkish president suggested on Thursday Turkish and Indian businessmen to make mutual investments.
11 February 2010 [18:58]
Turkey and Kazakhstan signed three agreements Thursday on bilateral cooperation.
11 February 2010 [18:53]
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11 February 2010 [17:55]
Head of the Adjaran Government Levan Varshalomidze familiarized representatives of the Turkish company Turkmol with the autonomous republic's economic and tourist potential.
11 February 2010 [17:35]
11 February 2010 [17:13]
Turkish President Abdullah Gul has responded to Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan's letter.
11 February 2010 [17:08]
Georgian nationals deported from Poland arrived in Tbilisi by a special flight Warsaw-Tbilisi late last night.
11 February 2010 [16:35]
11 February 2010 [16:23]
European lawmakers on Wednesday endorsed a resolution that called on Turkey to withdraw its troops from Cyprus.
11 February 2010 [16:00]
The number of the H1N1 lethal cases has reached 30 in Georgia.
11 February 2010 [15:51]
11 February 2010 [15:35]
Turkish Prime Minister had phone conversations with leaders of Ukraine, Saudi Arabia and Italy, prime ministry officials said on Wednesday.
11 February 2010 [15:13]
11 February 2010 [14:54]
The opposition has failed to agree on the scheme of the voter list monitoring and the distribution of funds allocated for this procedure.
11 February 2010 [14:20]
11 February 2010 [14:15]
Prince Charles hosted Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan at Windsor Castle on Feb. 10.
11 February 2010 [13:36]
Turkey's president continued to hold talks in India on Thursday.
11 February 2010 [13:23]
Turkish State Minister & Chief Negotiator for EU talks Egemen Bagis said on Wednesday that it was not possible for Turkey to accept the sections regarding Cyprus in Turkey report of European Parliament.
11 February 2010 [13:17]
11 February 2010 [13:05]
Rise in rate wave was observed in Armenia in 2009, Armenian Police Chief said.
11 February 2010 [12:49]
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says regional and global issues cannot be resolved through military action.
11 February 2010 [12:41]
The top NATO commander in Afghanistan restates his request for combat troops and praises Turkey’s role as he meets with Turkish journalists visiting a Turkish military camp in the war-torn country.
11 February 2010 [12:14]
The US Treasury Department orders a freeze on assets of a commander and four subsidiaries of a construction company linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).
11 February 2010 [12:08]
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11 February 2010 [11:52]
Turkey plans to invest about $12 billion over the next decade to build a high-speed railway network and shift more traffic to trains, a Turkish State Railways (TCDD) official said on Wednesday.
11 February 2010 [11:19]
Iran has told nuclear inspectors it will begin higher-grade uranium enrichment within days after preparations to do so carried out since Monday, according to a confidential U.N. memo.
11 February 2010 [11:14]
11 February 2010 [11:08]
Yerevan-Tbilisi-Yerevan flights have been resumed.
11 February 2010 [10:55]
Tehran on Wednesday summoned the Canadian charge d'affaires to Iran after the country's former envoy admitted to having spied for the US against the Islamic Republic.
11 February 2010 [10:32]
Turkey has long been eager to build nuclear power plants.
11 February 2010 [10:23]
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan has held a meeting with Queen Elizabeth II in London on Feb. 10.
11 February 2010 [10:13]
11 February 2010 [09:55]
A senior Iranian commander has announced that the country has developed a new system to distract missiles.
11 February 2010 [09:43]
Analytics
11 February 2010 [18:48]
11 February 2010 [15:47]
Congress Pushing for Radical Steps to Shake up Iran with New Energy Sanctions.
Weird / Interesting
11 February 2010 [20:25]
11 February 2010 [16:47]
A drunk man allegedly got a bit more than he bargained for when he went on a drunken joyride - because he stole an ambulance with a patient and paramedics still inside it.
11 February 2010 [15:03]
California Man Arrested For Allegedly Trying To Buy Boys' Urine At Elementary School.
11 February 2010 [14:25]
Joey, an Alsatian-Collie crossbreed, gets a nasty rash if he eats meat or chases a cat. His allergy is also brought out by activities as diverse as running through grass or jumping into water.
11 February 2010 [12:53]
A week before Valentine's Day, a consignment of cocaine was found hidden among 20,000 roses from Latin America at Amsterdam airport, Dutch authorities said Wednesday.
Politics
11 February 2010 [18:47]
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11 February 2010 [14:43]
Presentation of the documentary on Karabakh (”Karabakh in the Maelstrom of History”) took place at the conference hall of “Opera” hotel in Kiev.
11 February 2010 [13:44]
Day.Az interview with well-known Russian political expert, founder of the Russia-based National Strategy Institute Stanislav Belkovski.
11 February 2010 [13:00]
President of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) Rovnag Abdullayev met with visiting Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Feb. 10.
11 February 2010 [12:21]
The book titled "Irevan Khanate. Russian occupation and resettlement of Armenians in Azerbaijani lands" was presented by the New Azerbaijan Party (YAP) on Feb. 10.
11 February 2010 [11:46]
Day.Az interview with candidate of political sciences and Executive Director of the US Azeris Network Adil Bagirov.
11 February 2010 [11:38]
Speaker of Azerbaijan Milli Majlis (parliament) Ogtay Asadov met visiting Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman on Feb. 10.
11 February 2010 [11:31]
11 February 2010 [11:00]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev accepted credentials of newly appointed ambassador of Canada Mark Bailey on Feb. 10.
11 February 2010 [10:50]
11 February 2010 [10:28]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received credentials from newly appointed ambassador of the Republic of Mali Brahima Coulibaly on Feb. 10.
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Business
11 February 2010 [18:34]
11 February 2010 [16:02]
Structural changes in Azerbaijan's tax system will improve the country's tax administration and will increase budget revenues, Azerbaijani Tax Minister Fazil Mammadov said.
11 February 2010 [15:23]
The SOCAR, Azerbaijan's state-run oil firm, has built a gas pipeline to the Lanchkhuti region of Georgia.
Photo Galleries
11 February 2010 [19:30]
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Society
11 February 2010 [19:46]
As part of his trip to Azerbaijan, Foreign minister of Israel Avigdor Lieberman has met Wednesday representatives of the Jewish community.
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11 February 2010 [13:52]
Italian Theater of Pantomime will perform in Baku with a Comedy show program.
11 February 2010 [10:06]
The Czechia-based Cedok Travel Agency has removed Nagorno-Karabakh as travel destination from its website after receiving a letter of protest from the Azerbaijani embassy in the country.
11 February 2010 [09:37]
Chairman of the NGO Governmental Support Council Azay Guliyev met with representatives of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) on Feb. 10.
Sports
11 February 2010 [20:17]
Baku will host on February 24-25 medical training of UEFA organized by Association of Football Federation of Azerbaijan (AFFA).
11 February 2010 [20:00]
11 February 2010 [16:13]
Beijing Olympic bronze medalist Movlud Miraliyev (100 kg) will compete in the 2010 Grand Prix Dusseldorf slated for Feb. 20.
Arts & Entertainment
11 February 2010 [19:51]
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11 February 2010 [16:07]
Tennis ace Boris Becker is a daddy again.
11 February 2010 [14:32]
Singer John Mayer ignited a media storm on Wednesday with a no-holds barred Playboy interview in which he described former girlfriend Jessica Simpson as "sexual napalm" and confessed an aversion to sleeping with black women.
11 February 2010 [14:06]
New Line appears ready to commit to getting the remake of John Carpenter’s cult sci-fi action pic Escape From New York back on its feet and striding on the path to our screens, thanks to a new script by Wall Street 2 writer Allan Loeb.
11 February 2010 [12:33]
A former James Bond has returned for a new mission, and this time he has a licence to wear tights.
11 February 2010 [11:27]
11 February 2010 [10:44]
Brits organisers are panicking after Liam and Noel Gallagher - who are up for a special award with Oasis - said they would not attend if the other was there.
