News for 10 March 2010
World news
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Albanian Defense Minister Arben Imami met with Turkish National Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul in Ankara on Wednesday.
10 March 2010 [19:12]
10 March 2010 [19:03]
Iran's president says the US must explain what its troops are doing in Afghanistan, as catching terrorists only requires intelligence work not military deployments.
10 March 2010 [18:52]
U.S. Foreign Policy magazine included Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in its world's four Kissingers list.
10 March 2010 [18:41]
European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC) Executive Board assigned Turkey as coordinator country on Europe's civil aviation trainings.
10 March 2010 [18:34]
On March 10, Armenian National Security Council Chief received a delegation headed by Chairman of the CIS Council's of border guard troops Executive Board, General-Colonel Alexander Manilov.
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Georgia has established diplomatic relations with Paraguay.
10 March 2010 [17:09]
Albanian and Kyrgyz statesmen offered their condolences for victims of a 6-magnitude earthquake that hit Turkey's eastern Elazig province on Monday.
10 March 2010 [17:05]
Iranian officials are to launch a series of online courses to promote marriage and sponsor premarital trainings according to the Iranian culture and Islamic standards.
10 March 2010 [16:53]
This April Mikheil Saakashvili, President of Georgia, will visit Washington D.C. with an official visit and will hold a meeting with the U.S. President.
10 March 2010 [16:33]
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The Caspian countries' foreign ministers' next meeting is expected to take important decisions on the legal status of the Caspian Sea, Iranian Foreign Ministry Ramin Mehmanparast said.
10 March 2010 [15:53]
A group of Turkish officials from Energy Ministry are currently in Moscow for talks with Russian officials.
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New German Ambassador to Georgia Ortwin Hennig, will arrive in Tbilisi, former Ambassador Patricia Flor, in Georgia, said.
10 March 2010 [15:13]
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An Israel official has once again threatened Iran with military confrontation by repeating the famous phrase of "all options should remain on the table."
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Turkey's prime minister was presented with the "King Faisal International Prize for Service to Islam" at a ceremony held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.
10 March 2010 [14:35]
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has left Tehran for Kabul leading a high-ranking delegation on his first official visit to Afghanistan since the re-election of Hamid Karzai as president.
10 March 2010 [14:26]
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili hosted President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Joao Soares in Batumi, Adjara Region on Macrh 9.
10 March 2010 [14:22]
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Turkish Culture and Tourism Minister Ertugrul Gunay on Tuesday urged German officials to return in the shortest possible time a historical artifact to Turkey.
10 March 2010 [13:57]
In connection with termination of his diplomatic mission, Ambassador of Armenia in Romania Yeghishe Sargsyan met with President of Romania Traian Basescu.
10 March 2010 [13:51]
Georgian Parliamentary Speaker Davit Bakradze met with President of Poland Lech Kachinsky in Warsaw on March 9.
10 March 2010 [13:39]
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On March 9, Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan met with the newly appointed Polish Ambassador to Armenia Zdzislaw Raczynski.
10 March 2010 [13:10]
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says that imposing additional sanctions on Iran over its uranium enrichment program will not yield any results.
10 March 2010 [13:00]
10 March 2010 [11:23]
Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili considers some opposition members' contacts with Russia a betrayal of national interests of the country.
10 March 2010 [11:19]
On March 6, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan signed amendments to the Law on International Treaties approved by the National Assembly (Parliament).
10 March 2010 [11:14]
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has warned that imposing new sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program would be a very dangerous step.
10 March 2010 [11:00]
Turkey's leaders pledged Tuesday to build quake-proof homes after a magnitude 6 temblor shattered mud-brick homes in the eastern part of the country, killing 51 people. Still, similar promises after devastating earthquakes in the west in 1999 have had limited impact.
10 March 2010 [10:35]
OSCE Parliamentary Assembly may adopt special resolution on break-away territories of Georgia.
10 March 2010 [10:27]
Israel's UN ambassador says the prospects for imposing crippling sanctions on Iran are “grim” because Russia and China insist on diplomacy to solve the dispute over Iran's nuclear program.
10 March 2010 [10:23]
10 March 2010 [10:10]
President Saakashvili said on March 9 that Georgia was moving towards becoming “Switzerland of this region with elements of Singapore.”
10 March 2010 [09:55]
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang says Beijing insists that diplomacy is the only way to end the standoff over Iran's nuclear program.
10 March 2010 [09:47]
Turkish Parliament Speaker Mehmet Ali Sahin received a delegation led by Albanian Parliament Speaker Jozefina Topalli in Ankara on Tuesday.
Analytics
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Weird / Interesting
10 March 2010 [17:30]
True love can take many forms. In this case, it has taken the form of a Korean man falling in love with, and eventually marrying, a large pillow with a picture of a woman on it.
10 March 2010 [16:49]
Cyprus said Tuesday ransom was the motive of thieves who stole the body of former President Tassos Papadopoulos, found in a shallow grave Monday three months after it disappeared from its tomb.
10 March 2010 [16:15]
Loud, obnoxious, and naughty children are the bane of many parents’ existence. Thankfully for the parents in Japan’s Oga Peninsula, Akita Prefecture in northern Honshu, Japan, there is a solution: the infamous Namahage.
10 March 2010 [14:48]
A skydiver has survived plunging 3,000ft to the ground after a parachute jump went disastrously wrong.
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Weddings are an occasion never to be forgotten, especially when the bride and groom both come from noble origins.
Politics
10 March 2010 [19:25]
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President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has today received Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and his accompanying delegation.
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10 March 2010 [15:42]
The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry calls on the citizens to refuse to travel to Iraq in connection with the acts of terrorism and armed confrontation.
10 March 2010 [15:22]
Deputy foreign ministers of Caspian littoral states will convene in the Azeri capital Thursday to discuss security in the Caspian Sea.
10 March 2010 [13:47]
10 March 2010 [13:20]
Interview with member of the Russian Duma (Parliament), Director of the Russia-based Institute of Political Studies and political analyst Sergey Markov.
10 March 2010 [11:32]
Interview with Azerbaijani political expert Arif Yunusov.
10 March 2010 [11:10]
An interview with Goran Lennmarker, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Special Representative on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, who is expected to visit Azerbaijan on March 13-16.
10 March 2010 [10:45]
If Azerbaijan is interested in NATO membership, we could work on it, U.S. representative to NATO Jennifer Davis said.
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Azerbaijan`s foreign minister Elmar Mammadyarov has met Executive Director of the Conference on interaction and confidence building measures in Asia, CICA, Dulat Bakishev.
Business
10 March 2010 [19:42]
10 March 2010 [18:29]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has today received Chairman of the Management Board of RWE AG Juergen Grossmann.
10 March 2010 [16:44]
Libyan-Azerbaijani business forum took place in Tripoli.
10 March 2010 [14:39]
Development of perspective offshore structure Nakhchivan by German RWE can contribute to implementation of Nabucco project, RWE board chairman Juergen Grossmann said today in Baku.
10 March 2010 [13:24]
SOCAR (State Oil Company of Azerbaijan) and German RWE signed a memorandum of understanding for perspective offshore Nakhchivan field in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea.
10 March 2010 [10:05]
Azerbaijani Cabinet of Ministers has made a decision to bring the requirements on emissions of hazardous substances by cars into conformity with the European standards.
Daily Laugh
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Photo Galleries
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Society
10 March 2010 [18:24]
AITF, the only specialised tourism exhibition in the region, will take place on 28-30 April in the Heydar Aliyev Sport and Concert Complex.
10 March 2010 [18:05]
Several MPs from the opposition parties will submit draft Pardon Act to the Azerbaijani Parliament after the Nowruz holiday.
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10 March 2010 [17:24]
The Azerbaijani Red Crescent Society intends to implement the policy of donations, as well as strengthen activities in the field of youth policy, Society Head Novruz Aslanov told journalists today.
10 March 2010 [16:39]
On the eve of the eighteenth anniversary of the Azerbaijani Interior Troops, a residential block for officers at a military unit in the Narimanov district was opened.
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On March 12, Intel Corporation and Azerbaijani Education Ministry’s Office for Informatization of Education System will hold a seminar on the "One student - one computer" project.
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The 10th jubilee ceremony of UGUR national award will take place in the Gulustan Palace in Baku on March 19.
10 March 2010 [09:30]
Increasing the minimum pension in Azerbaijan in 2010 will depend on the level of income to the State Social Protection Fund (SSPF) of Azerbaijan from payments on compulsory social insurance, the head of the Fund Salim Muslimov said.
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Sports
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Two Azerbaijani athlets will battle for medals of the World Cross Country Championship in Bydgoszcz, Poland, late March.
10 March 2010 [10:19]
The retired gymnasts were awarded at the State Social Protection Fund (SSPF) of Azerbaijan.
10 March 2010 [08:25]
Azerbaijani rhythmic gymnastics team will take part in the World Cup in the Portuguese town of Portimao, the Azerbaijan Gymnastics Federation reported.
Arts & Entertainment
10 March 2010 [22:00]
Corey Haim was dead Wednesday morning, Los Angeles police confirmed. He was 38.
10 March 2010 [16:28]
"I don't know what she's saying, but it sounds great... someone can say something about you right in front of your face and you don't even know it's about you."
10 March 2010 [15:59]
One claims she’s the queen of pop, the other the king of bling, but there was room for only one showbiz monarch when Madonna and rap mogul P Diddy battled it out at her Oscars after-party.
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10 March 2010 [10:54]
Jennifer Hudson has revealed that her son David is obsessed with the family dogs.
10 March 2010 [08:35]
Michael Jackson's former bodyguards have claimed that the singer had secret affairs with several women.
