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. | Supreme Board of Radio and Television (RTUK) president, Zahid Akman, decided to close down 11 channels belonging to the Dogan Media Corporation’s D-Smart, along with several other channels, for failing to acquire the necessary broadcasting licenses.
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. | Tens of thousands of residents, refugees and government troops have fled the town of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, despite rebel forces declaring a ceasefire to prevent panic.
Troops loyal to Laurent Nkunda, a renegade army general, were on the outskirts of the provincial capital of Nord-Kivu on Thursday |
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. | “We have lost contact with the ship for the last 24 hours. There is no contact or demand for a ransom from the pirates yet. According to the information we have the ship is in Aden Bay in Somalia,” Fehmi Ulgener, an official at the company that owns the ship told Turkish NTV broadcaster. |
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. | Meanwhile on Thursday, Livni offered Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz on Thursday to act as the party’s campaign director in the oncoming elections.
Livni told Mofaz that she sees him as the party’s deputy leader, regardless of the pending legal issues about his place on the list. |
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. | The U.S. Commerce Department says Thursday the country’s Gross Domestic Product, GDP, – the value of all the goods and services produced in the U.S. – fell by three-tenths of a percent.
That is a sharp change from the previous three-month period when the GDP grew by 2.8 percent. |
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. | Many armed separatist groups are active in India’s northeast, which is wedged between Bangladesh, Bhutan, China and Myanmar, with only a thin corridor connecting it to the rest of India.
Earlier this month, at least two people were killed and 100 injured in four bomb blasts in Assam that police blamed on Muslim groups based in Bangladesh. |
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. | Mr. Leysanli was treathened by Yazd, Tehran and Ardabils secret services about his future. He is asked to leave Azerbaijan if he does not want any accident to happen to him or his family.
Mr Leysanli will attend a ceremony tomorrow in memorial of recently died activist Golamreza Amani and his two brothers. |
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. | In the aftermath of our Independence War, which ended with a decisive Turkish victory in August 1922, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk embarked on what is often termed as the most comprehensive reform period in the history of Turkish enlightenment. The coming into being of our young republic on October 29 1923 marked the demise of a centuries-old Empire, and let Atatürk gather a new country together, scrap by scrap. |
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. | Iran’s government assault on human rights and ethnic minorities continues, and the pace appears to be growing.
On 10 September 2008, became more prominent Azerbaijani poets and writers were arrested and jailed. In previous years, the Azerbaijani |
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. | Rasizadeh was approved the Prime Minister with 101 parliamentarians voted for, 2 against and 1 abstained.
President Ilham Aliyev had presented the recommendation |
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. | Even before armed hostilities between Russia and Georgia ended in August, the ultra-nationalist mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, began investing colossal sums in changing the ethnic geography of the Georgian breakaway state of South Ossetia in favor of Russia. In one public speech to Ossetians, he exuded the confidence and chutzpah that has come to symbolize the Russia of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev. |
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. | Court records unsealed Monday say local officers arrested the two men last Wednesday. They say the suspects were already armed with a sawed-off shotgun, a rifle, and three pistols, and were planning to rob a gun store for more weapons.
Officials said the two |
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. | Milli Majlis wil consider a number of international as well as local laws.
Milli Majlis (Azerbaijan’s |
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. | The Chinese men had been working for the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) at the time of their capture.
The oilfield is run by the Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company (GNPOC), a consortium of four oil companies from China, India |
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. | Four people, including Yanardag, were detained in Istanbul and Ankara provinces as part of the Ergenekon investigation, the channels said.
The four had worked at Turkish TV channel, Kanalturk, formerly one of the fiercest opponents of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), until the |
