News for 01 January 2007
Politics
01 January 2007 [17:52]
01 January 2007 [17:38]
Iran will never give up its nuclear program and unfair treatment of the country over its atomic work will have consequences for the West and the Middle East, powerful cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said on Sunday.
01 January 2007 [17:31]
When Atilla Yayla, a professor of political science, questioned the legacy of the revered founder of modern Turkey, nationalists called him a traitor and his university suspended him. He could not eat or sleep for days.
01 January 2007 [17:26]
Spain will take over the OSCE Chairmanship from Belgium on 1 January, with the Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs and Co-operation, Miguel Angel Moratinos, succeeding his Belgian counterpart, Karel De Gucht, as Chairman-in-Office.
01 January 2007 [17:09]
Security officers in Armenia have detained a man in connection with an alleged coup plot by opposition activists, officials said Friday.
01 January 2007 [17:04]
Serbia has secured Russia's consent to proceed with a planned arms deal with Armenia, defusing earlier objections from Moscow that caused upheaval at a Serbian weapons manufacturer, the president said Friday.
Business
01 January 2007 [17:08]
China, which is aggressively seeking overseas energy assets to fuel its booming economy, says one of its biggest conglomerates has bought the Kazakhstan oil assets of Calgary-based Nations Energy Company Ltd. for $1.91-billion (U.S.).
Society
01 January 2007 [17:29]
Over a thousand Turks spent the first day of the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha in emergency wards on Sunday after stabbing themselves or suffering other injuries while sacrificing startled animals.
01 January 2007 [16:58]
Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran became the second Indian ever after Viswanathan Anand to join the 2700 ELO rating club in the FIDE ranking list announced on Monday.
