News for 21 January 2007
Politics
21 January 2007 [23:34]
Adamant not to budge under pressure, Iran on Sunday announced new short-range missile tests, and hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dismissed criticism that new U.N. Security Council sanctions were hurting the economy.
21 January 2007 [23:19]
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr. Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah said on Sunday that he discussed with visiting Foreign Minister of the Republic of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov a host of issues including Islamic, Caspian sea and Gulf developments.
21 January 2007 [16:23]
A teenager detained over the slaying of an ethnic Armenian journalist has confessed to the killing, the prosecutor said Sunday.
21 January 2007 [16:17]
The Republic of Azerbaijan expressed high appreciation on Jordan's supportive stands to the Azerbaijani causes, as well as its keeness on further developing bilateral relations in all fields.
21 January 2007 [03:08]
U.S. contingency planning for military action against Iran's nuclear program goes beyond limited strikes and would effectively unleash a war against the country, a former U.S. intelligence analyst said on Friday.
21 January 2007 [02:59]
Turkish police on Saturday arrested the suspected killer of a prominent Turkish-Armenian writer who had angered nationalists with articles referring to a Turkish "genocide" of Armenians, government sources said.
21 January 2007 [02:12]
"International organizations will continue to work intensively on the issue of political prisoner irrespective of whether to appoint a special rapporteur to deal with it in Azerbaijan," said Denis Bribosia, special representative of CE Secretary General for Azerbaijan.
Business
21 January 2007 [03:24]
Kazakhstan outlined tougher laws for investors in its growing oil sector on Thursday and forecast that 2007 oil output would stay at last year's 1.35 million barrels per day level while new capacity is developed.
21 January 2007 [02:28]
The State Agency for Standardization, Metrology and Patents are studying to apply new standards to all spheres of the economy.
21 January 2007 [02:26]
"Although the EU called Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railroad a political project, many European States show great interest in this project," said TRACECA Azerbaijan National Secretariat Chief Akif Mustafayev.
Society
21 January 2007 [23:16]
Azerbaijan's grandmaster Teymur Rajabov suffered his first defeat at the Corus Chess Tournament 2007 in Wijk aan Zee by losing to Armenia's Levon Aronian.
21 January 2007 [16:46]
A moderate earthquake shook eastern Turkey on Sunday, causing damage to homes in at least seven villages in the eastern Turkish province of Agri, Governor Halil Ibrahim Akpinar said. Two people were slightly injured.
21 January 2007 [16:40]
Three lorries belonging to the Republic of Azerbaijan burnt on fire in Astara at the joint border with the Islamic Republic of Iran Sunday morning.
21 January 2007 [02:34]
Belarusian Sergey Pavlyukovich has gone to the native country in connection with personal affairs.
21 January 2007 [02:30]
"Sport facilities and stadiums in Azerbaijan will not be reconstructed in 2007," stated Azad Rehimov, minister of youth and sports.
21 January 2007 [02:23]
Fire took place in the building of Statistics Office, the region of Berde at 10.00 on Saturday morning.
21 January 2007 [02:22]
Voters' lists specification process will be finished by May 30 in Azerbaijan.
21 January 2007 [02:19]
"The number of deaths remained the same as previous year in 2006," said Azerbaijan's Military Prosecutor Khanlar Valiyev.
21 January 2007 [02:17]
"Unfortunately, Appeals Court canceled arrest verdict against Elkhan Huseynov. He is still be interrogated," said Azerbaijan's Military Prosecutor, Khanlar Huseynov while commenting on the arrest of commander of a military unit, Elkhan Huseynov.
