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. | Iran says the economic sanctions would not stop it from pursuing nuclear energy development and says the Baghdad talks must be based on the recognition of rights of the Iranian nation to do so.
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. | Lincoln Mitchell, an associate research scholar specializing in the Caucasus at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute, believes that Georgia’s ties with Iran do not have too “much salience” in Washington for now, but notes that that “may change, if push comes to shove on Iran.”
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. | North Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry has responded to the latest anti-Azerbaijani protest held in the city of Tabriz, Iran. Spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan, Elman Abdullayev, today expressed official Baku’s concern.
The Azerbaijani authorities are convinced that forces hostile to Azerbaijan |
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. | In the German city of Aachen to receive the award for European Unity, he called for the direct election of an EU president to make Europe more democratic.
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. | Meanwhile, some Shiite figures regarded the move as a means of rapprochement between the different Islamic doctrines.
Following the inauguration of the Husseiniya in Cairo, a numbers of Shiites gathered and practiced some Shiite rituals which included beating their chests and chanting poems to commemorate the death |
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. | “We have seen nothing in the past months except political incompetence in the SNC and a total lack of consensus between its vision and that of the revolutionaries,” the network said in a statement.
Ghalioun, a secularist who has led the Syrian National Council by consensus rather than through election since the organisation was founded in October 2011, was re-elected as the |
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. | As leaders in Athens accepted the need for a new general election to end a national stalemate, the International Monetary Fund said Europe’s leaders should prepare for the possibility of a Greek departure from the single currency.
Christine Lagarde, head of the IMF, warned she was “technically prepared for anything” and said the utmost effort must be made to ensure any Greek exit was orderly. The effect |
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. | On the 26th of May, 2012. Sabina’s performance at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Baku will take on a new dimension with the news that she will be joined by the mugam’s legend Alim Qasimov on stage in the final of the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest. |
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. | Turkish security is investigating whether or not the bird was a possible secret agent of the Israeli secret police and had an embedded surveillance device. In the most obvious denial ever, Israeli wildlife |
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. | Majid Jamali Fashi, 24, was convicted of killing Professor Massoud Ali Mohammadi by detonating a bomb outside his home in January 2010.
Fashi was also accused of being a spy for the Israeli intelligence |
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. | An informal summit of CIS leaders holds in the capital of Russia, Moscow. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev attends at Summit organized by the initiative Russian President Vladimir Putin, APA’s Moscow correspondent reports. |
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. | Greek political leaders stuck to entrenched positions before another round of coalition talks on Monday, dashing hopes of a last-minute compromise to avoid a new election that risks pushing the country closer to financial default.
European shares slid and Spanish and Italian bond yields rose as investors fretted the political deadlock meant Greece was on track to become the first country to abandon the euro |
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. | As thousands of sympathisers for the strikers held a rally in Gaza, Israel and Hamas confirmed that a deal had been struck.
It is said to have been brokered by Egypt after earlier talks resulted in deadlock. |
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. | “Iran has nothing to do with what happens between the two countries, even if it develops into a unity,” al-Faisal said.
GCC leaders agreed to allow time for further discussions over the proposed Gulf union, Saud said. Iranian MPs earlier on Monday condemned the planned union between Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. |
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. | Police violently dispersed the protesters of the Public Chamber in the center of Baku, close to the Nizami monument park and the surrounding area.
The opposition had intended meeting at 13:00, to make a procession to the |
