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. | Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, a former Islamist, has been elected president in a parliamentary vote. He is the first politician with an Islamist background to become head of state since the creation of the deeply secular Turkish Republic in 1923. |
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. | Gordon Brown has ruled out setting a timetable for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq, saying they still have “an important job to do”.
The prime minister said in a letter to Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell the military still had “clear obligations to discharge”. |
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. | The Administration for some time hands over the Turkmen pastures to the Kurds to be used as plateaus and winter quarters. The Islamic Republic supports the Shiite Kurds (they have been sent to Northern Khorasan together with the Kisilbash Army during the time of Safawi). Weapons were also provided to them in order for them to be able to maintain their security and protect themselves from the Turkmens. |
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. | The resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales brings to a close a bitter standoff between the Bush administration and Congress over the attorney general’s loss of personal credibility and integrity with lawmakers. VOA National Correspondent |
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. | Chaika also suggested that “individuals located outside the Russian Federation” who seek to discredit Russia were ultimately behind Politkovskaya’s death.
Chaika announced the |
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. | Address: Yöteburq, Sweden Göteborg, Sverge FOLKETSHUS HAMMARKULLEN Date/Time: |
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. | He said the army will not “be deterred by such attacks” and will continue to defend the basic tenets of the republic set out by the country’s founding father Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in 1923.
Anniversary speech Buyukanit’s message was issued |
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. | Some AIDS victims are being buried alive in Papua New Guinea by relatives who cannot look after them and fear becoming infected themselves, a health worker said Monday.
Margaret Marabe, who spent five months carrying out an AIDS awareness campaign in the |
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. | Kiraj Muganlio resident, 34-year old Azerbaijani Elmikhan Nasibov was shot in 5 meter of Georgian-Azerbaijani border. Two bullets hit him while he was shepherding at 08.00 in the morning. The officials of Georgia Prosecutor General are carrying out investigation in the place of the incident. Georgia claims that Samadov |
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. | Regarding news from Azerbaijan, Ms. Golami and her daughter are missing. Report claims she was arrested day after raid to her home on 20th of August.
New information we received indicates that Ms. Golami may have been detained in Prison |
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. | The move comes two weeks before senior US officials in Iraq present a highly-anticipated status report on the country.
Iraqi officials said five leaders had agreed on draft legislation that would ease curbs on former members of Saddam Hussein’s Baath party joining the civil service and military. |
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. | people and injured more than 60 in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad. Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, security has been stepped up in Hyderabad, a well-known information technology hub.
The federal government rushed paramilitary troops and bomb detection equipment to Hyderabad a day after the explosions ripped through a roadside stall and an amusement park. |
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. | According Atatürk, Mevlana was ‘a mighty reformer, who had adapted Islam to the Turkish soul.’
While visiting Konya on the 20th of March 1923, ‘The Sufi-Vatican’ build around the shrine of Mevlana, Atatürk is quoted as saying: |
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. | The racially motivated attack on eight Indians in the eastern town of Mügeln continues to resonate in Germany and the leader of the co-ruling Social Democrats (SPD), Kurt Beck, spoke out in favor of a starting the process that would ban the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD). But other political leaders and the interior ministry have voiced skepticism.
The NPD is an anti-immigrant party that has close links to neo-Nazis and is represented in the parliaments of two states in the former communist East Germany. Eastern Germany has seen disproportionate rates of violence against foreigners since German reunification in 1990, although incidents have also occurred in western Germany. |
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. | The Tajik head of state, Emomali Rahmon, told the ceremony in Nizhny Pyanj that the “bridge of friendship” will first of all “strengthen the old and vital relations of two countries and two peoples.”
But he also expressed concern that Tajik and Afghan authorities need “to prevent all kinds of inadmissible activities such as human, drug, and weapons trafficking.” |
