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. | An ex-Khmer Rouge prison chief has been charged with crimes against humanity by a UN-backed tribunal in Cambodia. Kang Kek Ieu, also known as Duch, was in charge of the notorious S21 jail in the country’s capital, Phnom Penh. Duch is the first of five suspects whom prosecutors have asked the tribunal to investigate over their role in the brutal Khmer Rouge regime. |
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. | Armenian Armed forces continue to commit arsons in the Azerbaijani-occupied territories, APA’s Karabakh bureau reports. After they burned Yusifjanli village flames were seen towards Agdam. The Armenians committed |
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. | He said his chief of staff was in Beijing to discuss and develop the two agreements which he hopes will be finished by December.
Leavitt said: “We believe that with the technology, the scientific expertise, and the commitment each side has, we can work together to correct the outstanding issues.” |
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. | Japanese architect Shigeru Ban — iconic for his use of eco-friendly, lightweight materials — on Friday lifted the veil on a paper bridge over the Gardon River in southern France.
Built half a mile from the Pont du Gard — a section of ancient Roman bridge classed as a UN World Heritage site — Shigeru’s cardboard-tube structure is strong enough to carry 20 people at a time. |
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. | 520 criminal cases on sale of drugs were committed, which is 48 facts more compared with the reporting period of last year. 1119 were held accountable regarding these crimes. 383 of them were engaged in selling narcotics. Smuggling of 69.4kg narcotics in Azerbaijan was prevented.
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. | The Korean Christian aid workers were kidnapped 10 days ago.
The leader of the group was shot by the Taleban on Wednesday. The militants want government prisoners released. |
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. | Anniversary Symposium on Language and Human Rights (Geneva, UN, Palais des Nations, Room VIII, April 28, 1998) Linguists don’t bother with artificial languages. results in reinforcing a feeling of rejection and of inferior status. A similar, but much more serious, interference in the relationship between parent and child is prevalent in Turkish jails, where a father visiting his son is forced to speak Turkish, whereas the family language, the language of feelings and emotions, so important in such a context from a humane point of view, is actually Kurdish. |
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. | Turkey’s newly elected government is prepared to turn its back on its long-standing alliance with the United States to counter the threat of Kurdish terrorism, one of the closest allies of the prime minister has warned.
Egemen Bagis, foreign policy advisor to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said Turkish forces were prepared to mount operations against Kurdish PKK fighters |
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. | “Basic services, ruined by years of war and sanctions, cannot meet the needs of the Iraqi people,” the director of Oxfam International, Jeremy Hobbs, said.
“Millions of Iraqis have been forced to flee the violence, either to another part of Iraq or abroad. Many of those are living in dire poverty.” |
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. | Dear Dad,
Captive are we both, you in the dungeon but we wander in freedom. Happy fathers day. Your children love you, |
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. | They are told other’s land is your’s, fight for, kill for till you get it!! It could happen again tomorrow, are we ready?
Terrorism: As the Kurdish labour party enlists Kurdish worker’s party under the eyes of Federal Intelligence Service and protection of the constitution in Germany recruit |
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. | Ergun Poyraz was detained in the early morning at his home in Ankara and flown to Istanbul for questioning by police.
Poyraz is suspected of having links to an ultra-nationalist group which came to light with a police raid last month on a house in Istanbul in which 27 hand |
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. | Since the beginning of the Republic, Ankara’s Kurdish policy has been based on the principle of “Turkification,” an authoritarian policy that has sparked violent reactions. But now, the AKP is accomplishing something that the state has never been very successful in doing: Winning Kurdish hearts and minds |
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. | Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister sent a letter to Albanian Foreign Minister Lulzim Basha, secretary general of Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu and the head of the organization’s Foreign Ministers’ Council, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri on illegal arms sales to Armenia, spokesman for Foreign |
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. | Truly, this is a day not to be missed—a veritable explosion of culinary delights and culture!
TORONTO – Get ready for the TORONTO TURKISH FESTIVAL! This year, the Festival will be held on Saturday, August 4th, and Sunday, August 5th , 2007, from 10 am to 10 pm, at the YONGE AND DUNDAS SQUARE, in downtown Toronto. What a great chance to get out with the family and enjoy fun, fine food, fantastic music, and |
