News for 21 June 2010
World news
21 June 2010 [14:07]
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Weird / Interesting
21 June 2010 [13:44]
At the age of 9, most girls are happy playing with dolls or watching their High School Musical DVDs. But, for alligator wrestler Samantha Young, nothing passes the time like grappling with a 2.4m (8ft) reptilian killing machine.
21 June 2010 [11:53]
A struggling Italian village with high unemployment and dismal prospects has had its prayers for help answered from an unexpected quarter – Libya's eccentric leader, Muammar Gaddafi.
21 June 2010 [11:23]
First-time Bollywood director Rakesh Ranjam Kumar is intent on producing a film depicting Adolf Hitler’s last ten days with his lover, Eva Braun, prior to their suicide.
Politics
21 June 2010 [18:31]
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A conference on business and investment opportunities in Azerbaijan and CIS has today kicked off in Baku as part of the 35th Meeting of the Board of Executive Directors of the Islamic Development Bank, IDB.
21 June 2010 [16:53]
Interview with Vice President of Russia-based Political Technologies Center, Russian political analyst Sergey Mikheyev.
21 June 2010 [16:20]
Activity of the Sub-committee on Nagorno-Karabakh remains urgent, the PACE President Movlut Cavusoglu said at a press conference on the eve of the organization's summer session.
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Journalist and blogger Ibrahim Rashidi (Savalan), who peacefully struggles for national rights of Azerbaijanis in Iran, was arrested in Ardabil, Yashar Hakkakpour, human rights activist of the Committee on Azerbaijani Political Prisoners said.
21 June 2010 [12:40]
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The Armenian armed forces again attacked Azerbaijani troops.
21 June 2010 [11:30]
The agenda of the summer session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) includes discussions the functioning of democratic institutions in Azerbaijan, the website of the Council of Europe reported.
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Azerbaijani Defense Ministry has confirmed the shooting between Azerbaijani and Armenian armies that have claimed at least four lives on June 18.
21 June 2010 [09:48]
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Shooting occurred on the contact line of Azerbaijani and Armenian troops on June 18, APA reports citing Armenian press.
Business
21 June 2010 [18:48]
The Islamic Development Bank has allocated 130 million euros to Azerenerji, major electricity supplier in Azerbaijan so far, the company`s president has told journalists.
21 June 2010 [18:13]
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A seminar on “Financing and Opportunities provided by the Islamic Development Bank Group” has been held in Azerbaijan's capital.
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21 June 2010 [15:17]
Expanding its support for oil and gas producers that play a vital role in the economic growth of the Caspian Sea Region, GE Oil & Gas today officially opened a new Global Services facility south of Baku in the Republic of Azerbaijan, the company reported.
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Oil pipelines have transported 19.9 million tons over the past five months this year, according to the State Stats Committee.
21 June 2010 [10:20]
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Russian gas giant Gazprom is prepared to purchase all of Azerbaijan's gas volume, the company's CEO announced on Saturday.
21 June 2010 [09:40]
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The 268th meeting of the Islamic Development Bank`s Board of Executive Directors presided over by IDB President Ahmed Mohammad Ali started here on Sunday.
Daily Laugh
21 June 2010 [11:35]
Society
21 June 2010 [17:45]
Heydar Aliyev Foundation, Azerbaijan-based Ziya Bunyadov Oriental Studies Institute, Romania-based Center for Turkic and Central Asia Studies and Azerbaijani embassy in Romania organized an international conference entitled “Dialogue between East and West” in Kluj-Napoka city of Romania on June 17-18.
21 June 2010 [17:37]
Application for pilgrimage to Hajj has been started. Caucasian Muslims Office said, that the application deadline is in September.
21 June 2010 [16:26]
About 60,000 hectares of cultivated land are under water as a result of natural disaster in Azeraijan, the Azerbaijani Agriculture Minister Ismat Abbasov said today.
21 June 2010 [16:13]
21 June 2010 [15:44]
With a grant from Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation (OSI AF) Azerbaijan Media Center just kicked off the series of live online program for the first time in the Southern Caucasus.
21 June 2010 [15:35]
Baku police found weapons and ammunition in the house of an Iranian citizen.
21 June 2010 [14:55]
The U.S. Government has announced the completion of repair works in the Azerbaijan's Republican Veterinary Laboratory carried out under the project "Reduction of biological danger" .
21 June 2010 [14:35]
Heavy rains and hail are expected to in mountainous and lowlying areas of Azerbaijan in the coming days, chief hydrologist at the Azerbaijani Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry's National Hydrometeorological Department Asif Verdiyev said.
21 June 2010 [14:25]
Population should be informed of health dangers of swimming in polluted Absheron Peninsula beaches to prevent attempts to swim in these beaches, chairman of the 'Green Movement' ecological organization Farid Huseynov said.
21 June 2010 [14:16]
21 June 2010 [13:35]
Azerbaijani embassy in Kyrgyzstan is working to help remaining Azerbaijanis to leave the country.
21 June 2010 [13:23]
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“Recently, an increase is observed in the number of rabies cases in animals in Azerbaijan”, Chief of the State Veterinary Service under the Azerbaijani Agriculture Ministry Siyala Rustamova told media.
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A Scholarship named after Azerbaijani National Leader Heydar Aliyev will be created in Greece.
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Sports
21 June 2010 [18:40]
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Ayla Ahmadova and Dilara Sultanova became the absolute winners of the international tournament in acrobatic gymnastics held in Kazakhstan.
21 June 2010 [16:39]
Young Azerbaijani boxers will compete in an annual Vladimir Klichko tournament in Berdichev, Ukraine.
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Arts & Entertainment
21 June 2010 [12:03]
British singer Tara Mcdonald is prepared to give a concert in Baku for the first time by the end of June.
21 June 2010 [11:44]
