News for 21 July 2010
World news
21 July 2010 [15:42]
A government-linked film studio in Iran plans to make a movie about the Iranian nuclear scientist who Iranian officials say was kidnapped by U.S. agents, state media reported Tuesday.
21 July 2010 [15:05]
The British prime minister will pay a formal visit to Turkey on July 26-27, the press office of Turkey's Prime Minister said on Wednesday.
21 July 2010 [14:47]
Draft of constitutional amendments, which will cut next President's powers in favor of Prime Minister, have been submitted to the Georgian Parliament.
21 July 2010 [13:35]
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has appointed Mohamed Mehdi Akhundzadeh Special Representative for Caspian Sea Affairs.
21 July 2010 [12:55]
Militants in the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, would disarm if the Turkish government met certain conditions, one of the group’s leader, Murat Karayılan, told the BBC in an interview Wednesday.
21 July 2010 [11:08]
An earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale jolted the Lar town in the Fars province of Iran this morning, IRNA reported.
21 July 2010 [10:27]
Amid ongoing tensions in Turkish-Israeli relations, Turkey’s foreign minister held unannounced talks Monday in Damascus with a senior Hamas leader whose visit to Ankara four years ago drew the ire of Tel Aviv.
Weird / Interesting
21 July 2010 [15:15]
21 July 2010 [11:25]
Politics
21 July 2010 [17:55]
21 July 2010 [16:17]
The Center for Strategic Studies under the Azerbaijani President has hosted a roundtable meeting on “NATO's New Strategic Concept”.
21 July 2010 [15:30]
21 July 2010 [13:25]
The United States' Embassy to Azerbaijan has held an official reception to mark the 234th anniversary of the country's independence.
21 July 2010 [13:15]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has today inaugurated a salt refinery near the Masazyr Lake.
21 July 2010 [12:45]
21 July 2010 [12:35]
Russian young people visited Ministry of Youth and Sports of Azerbaijan in Baku.
21 July 2010 [11:55]
21 July 2010 [11:35]
Azerbaijan has urged to withdraw anti-Azerbaijani film from the air and website of the German-French channel ARTE TV.
21 July 2010 [11:16]
Ambassador of the Netherlands in Baku Jan Lukas Inayat van Hoorn hailed official negotiations the European Union has launched with Azerbaijan on Association Agreement.
21 July 2010 [10:45]
21 July 2010 [10:35]
Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will not visit Azerbaijan in September within the fifth symposium of world leaders, World Leaders Travel said.
21 July 2010 [10:16]
21 July 2010 [10:08]
21 July 2010 [09:55]
The Rector of the State Management Academy under the President of Azerbaijan Seyfaddin Gandilov died on Tuesday.
21 July 2010 [09:45]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has sent a letter of congratulation to Belgian King Albert II on his country's national day - Inauguration of the King.
21 July 2010 [09:35]
21 July 2010 [09:07]
Azerbaijan's Minister of Foreign Affairs Elmar Mammadyarov met Supachai Panitchpakdi, Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) on July 20.
21 July 2010 [09:00]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, accompanied by his spouse Mehriban Aliyeva, inspected the Respublika Hotel after complete overhaul on July 20.
Business
21 July 2010 [17:35]
21 July 2010 [16:08]
Azerbaijan's economy has reached AZN19.7 billion or $24.7 billion in the first six months of the current year, up by 3.7 percent from a year earlier, State Statistical Committee said.
21 July 2010 [14:20]
21 July 2010 [12:10]
Russian young people visited Azerbaijan's Ministry of Communication and Information Technologies.
21 July 2010 [10:55]
Representatives of German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology today have met here with deputy director of Azerbaijan's State Agency for Alternative and renewable Energy Jamil Malikov.
Society
21 July 2010 [17:45]
The mechanism of "traffic lights", to be used in naming in Azerbaijan, will not apply to representatives of other nationalities residing in the country.
21 July 2010 [17:10]
As many as 800 new jobs have been created in Sumgait as a result of measures taken in the first half of 2010, the Sumgait City Administration said.
21 July 2010 [16:55]
21 July 2010 [16:35]
Moscow government's Airline "Atlant-Soyuz" will launch new Moscow-Nakhchivan-Moscow flight from July 27, the company said.
21 July 2010 [14:32]
15 drug smugglers were detained and 425 kg of drugs was confiscated during anti-drug operations conducted by the Ministry of National Security last month.
21 July 2010 [14:07]
17 people have drowned in the sea in Baku beaches this summer, chief doctor of the Baku Emergency Aid Station Rauf Nagiyev said.
21 July 2010 [13:55]
From August 9, Air Astana Airline will open additional Almaty-Baku-Almaty flight, Airline's Baku Office said.
21 July 2010 [12:23]
Azerbaijani experts say police's chasing drivers is unacceptable except for exceptional cases.
21 July 2010 [09:25]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev inaugurated Park Bulvar trade and rest center in Seaside National Park on July 20.
Sports
21 July 2010 [16:45]
Azerbaijani young female athlete Layesh Abdullayeva has won silver in the 3000m race in the world championship in Monkton, Canada.
21 July 2010 [16:25]
Azerbaijan's 15-strong chess team is competing in the Czech Open 2010 festival in Pardubice.
21 July 2010 [15:55]
Interview with Director of Marketing and Advertising Department at the Azerbaijan Football Federations Association (AFFA) Javid Garayev.
21 July 2010 [13:45]
Azerbaijani chess grandmaster Shahriyar Mammadyarov will face German Arkady Naydich in the sixth round of an international tournament in Dortmund, Germany.
21 July 2010 [13:07]
Young Azerbaijani Greco-roman wrestlers have gained two gold medals in the world championship in Budapest, Hungary.
21 July 2010 [09:15]
Young Azerbaijani wrestlers are competing in the world championship in Budapest, Hungary.
Arts & Entertainment
21 July 2010 [17:23]
Works by the Azerbaijani cartoonists will be exhibited in Israel, Chairman of Azerbaijan Association of Cartoonists Bayram Hajizade said.
21 July 2010 [11:45]
Azerbaijani pianist Yegana Akhundova has been named The Successful Woman of the Year by the Euro-American Women's Council, EAWC.
