News for 11 March 2010
Voice of Diaspora
11 March 2010 [13:10]
World news
11 March 2010 [23:50]
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Thursday that the EU needed Turkey in foreign policy.
11 March 2010 [22:17]
Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan, while in France, gave an interview to a French newspaper Le Figaro, where he spoke out about the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and the Turkish-Armenian relations.
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Donald Tusk, PM of Poland, who arrived in Georgia this morning, held a meeting with his Georgian counterpart Nikoloz Gilauri.
11 March 2010 [18:51]
Iran’s special envoy on Caspian Sea Mehdi Safari met on Thursday with Azeri President Ilham Aliyev on issues of mutual interests.
11 March 2010 [18:44]
Turkey's Deputy PM gave a signal that Heybeliada Seminary will be opened, saying the government found the demand "justified".
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Turkey's president said on Thursday that he hoped everybody would see the inaccuracy of the political decisions on Armenian allegations regarding the incidents of 1915.
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Landslide in the village of Orbeli, Tsageri district, and the Alpana-Tsageri central road of Georgia has been blocked up.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has warned Israel that initiating a new military conflict in the Middle East would not save it from downfall.
11 March 2010 [16:25]
On Thursday, Turkish Prime Minister said, that baby mortality rate was down in the last seven years.
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday that Iranians would not let “corrupt powers disturb security in the Persian Gulf region.
11 March 2010 [15:25]
Georgia's Minister of Interior Affairs Vano Merabishvili has left for Italy today.
11 March 2010 [14:45]
Turkey has expressed concern over Israel's plans to build 1,600 new homes in East Jerusalem.
11 March 2010 [14:34]
Tehran will host a meeting of Caspian countries' representatives to determine quotas for sturgeon fishing in the end of March, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Mehdi Safari said today.
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The Turkish Cypriot president said on Wednesday that relations between the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) and Turkey were in the best level in their history.
11 March 2010 [14:05]
An Iranian pro-reform Web site says authorities have released a former senior official detained for suspected involvement in the country's postelection turmoil.
11 March 2010 [13:44]
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US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has paid a visit to Saudi Arabia, seeking to win the support of the United States' closest ally in the Persian Gulf on tough sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program.
11 March 2010 [13:25]
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has informed his Irish counterpart Michael Martin about the recent developments in Cyprus and the Middle East on Wednesday.
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Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast has rejected a Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) statement over its three Persian Gulf islands.
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Turkey and South Korea signed on Wednesday a cooperation protocol to establish a nuclear energy power plant in the northern Turkish province of Sinop.
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Former Iranian Ambassador to France Sadig Kharrazi, expressed his attitude to China's resistance against imposing more severe sanctions on Iran by the UN Security Council.
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Turkey welcomed on Wednesday the decision to resume indirect peace talks between Israel and Palestine.
11 March 2010 [11:34]
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan invited his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy to pay a state visit to Armenia.
11 March 2010 [11:29]
Emphasis was made here Wednesday on need for expansion of cultural cooperation in a meeting between Iran’s CHHTO head and deputies and Vimar city officials.
11 March 2010 [11:21]
House Resolution 252 passed the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) by a vote of 23-22 after HFAC Chairman Howard Berman controversially extended the voting period thrice.
11 March 2010 [11:10]
A British artist whose collage was found to have mocked Turkey's prime minister has been fined by a court in Istanbul.
11 March 2010 [11:05]
11 March 2010 [10:53]
IRI President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Tehran Wednesday night after his day-long visit of Afghanistan.
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11 March 2010 [10:37]
Turkish officials on Wednesday lowered the death toll in this week's magnitude 6 earthquake from 51 to 41.
11 March 2010 [10:27]
The Georgian President's Administration is not confirming the information on the meeting between the Georgian and the US presidents yet.
11 March 2010 [10:09]
A Turkish court arrested three soldiers on Wednesday in an investigation over an alleged plot to topple the AK Party government.
11 March 2010 [09:57]
Citing Iran "contrary" to U.S. interests, President Barack Obama said Wednesday that the United States will continue sanctions set by the previous administrations on Iran.
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Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly of Turkic-speaking countries (TurkPA) will participate in the anniversary of the Turkish Parliament.
Analytics
11 March 2010 [16:35]
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Weird / Interesting
11 March 2010 [16:44]
Bryan Berg gave a (very gentle) sigh of relief when he finally completed the world’s largest ‘house of cards’.
11 March 2010 [13:05]
Scientists are hopeful of finding out more about ancient birds and why they died out after extracting DNA from a huge fossilised elephant bird egg.
11 March 2010 [12:35]
A Kansas man told police officers that he had been beaten and left with a head wound after he tried to buy drugs using Monopoly money.
Politics
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President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has today received Chung Jong-hwan, Korea`s Minister of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs.
11 March 2010 [17:00]
“Washington has already dealt a blow to U.S.-Turkish relations,” Member of the Azerbaijani Milli Majlis (Parliament) Aynur Jamalgizi said.
11 March 2010 [16:00]
Relations between Azerbaijan and Germany have stable character, bilateral ties flourish, and the German side hopes for their further development, Germany's Ambassador to Azerbaijan Per Stanchina said.
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Interview with Editor-in-Chief of the Moscow-based Konservator newspaper Rustam Arifjanov.
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Speaker of Azerbaijan Parliament (Milli Majlis) Ogtay Asadov has today met visiting Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
11 March 2010 [12:54]
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If the U.S. Congress discusses the outdated incident, it must also assess the events that occured 20 years ago, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said.
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Business
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Ganja Automobile Plant (Azerbaijan) and German Haller Company signed a protocol of intention for production of communal equipment on basis of MAZ cars, assembled at the plant in Azerbaijan, director of Ganja automobile plant Hanlar Fatiyev said.
Daily Laugh
11 March 2010 [14:40]
Photo Galleries
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Society
11 March 2010 [23:20]
On March 11, the National Assembly of Youth Organization of Azerbaijan Republic (NAYORA) and the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Azerbaijan held a ceremony on awarding individuals and organizations, contributing to the development of youth policy in the country, the Prize of Honorary Youth.
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Azerbaijan-born businessman has been included to the list of 100 richest men in the world as of Feb. 12, 2010.
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Azerbaijan’s Public Administration Academy and State Oil Academy have launched "Virtual University" pilot project.
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Azerbaijani teachers have purchased more than 6300 computers in “National computer” project, which is implemented by the Azerbaijani Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Education and NR and Microsoft companies.
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Visiting commandant of the Turkish Coast Guard Command Izzet Artunc met with Chief of Azerbaijan`s State Frontier Service Elchin Guliyev.
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Sports
11 March 2010 [19:46]
Azerbaijani female chess player Zeynab Mammadyarova defeated the Armenian rival.
Arts & Entertainment
11 March 2010 [12:39]
No, the headline does not mean that Clint Eastwood was spotted in Argos shopping for a new Dyson: he’s busy locking down a deal to direct a biopic about FBI founder J Edgar Hoover written by Milk scribe Lance Black.
11 March 2010 [11:58]
Lindsay Lohan is suing an online share trading company for $100m (about £66m), claiming one of their adverts features a baby modelled on her.
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