News for 28 January 2007
Politics
28 January 2007 [20:43]
Tensions in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia flared Sunday after separatist officials said three police officers had been wounded in a nighttime attack and blamed the incident on the central government.
28 January 2007 [20:23]
Several hundred Russian ultranationalists rallied in central Moscow Sunday to protest against the detention of 'political prisoners,' including two officers charged with killing civilians in Russia's violence-torn Chechnya province.
28 January 2007 [20:20]
Around 1,500 opposition supporters rallied in the Azerbaijani capital Sunday to protest against recent sharp hikes in domestic utility rates.
Business
28 January 2007 [15:42]
Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said Georgia hopes to receive gas mainly from Azerbaijan.
Society
28 January 2007 [22:15]
A 14-year-old Azeri boy, treated for suspected bird flu in a medical institute in the capital, Baku, died on Sunday before his diagnosis could be finally established, a Health Ministry spokesman said.
28 January 2007 [20:42]
Police have detained a man who held up a ferry and threatened to blow it up to protests against pro-Armenian slogans chanted at a slain journalist's funeral, a provincial official said Sunday.
28 January 2007 [20:40]
Shahryar Eivazzadeh runs a small software startup in Tehran, spends his spare time blogging and feels little affection for Iran's current regime. But when tensions with the U.S. are mentioned, he comes to his country's defense.
28 January 2007 [20:25]
Teymur Rajabov of Azerbaijan and Bulgarian Veselin Topalov have agreed on an even score in the game from the 13th round of the chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee, the official cite of the tournament announced.
