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. | U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the Americans delivered a letter to the Iranians at Tuesday’s meeting in The Hague.
The United States used an international meeting on Afghanistan to make an unusual direct diplomatic overture to Iran. |
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. | Libya’s leader disrupted the opening Arab League summit in Qatar by taking a microphone and criticising King Abdullah, calling him a “British product and American ally”. |
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. | Hamid Karzai has been accused of trying to win votes in Afghanistan’s presidential election by backing a law the UN says legalises rape within marriage and bans wives from stepping outside their homes without their husbands’ permission.
The Afghan president signed the law earlier this month, despite condemnation by human rights activists and some MPs |
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. | Asian heart news net reported official Chinese government statistics in March 27 and revealed the data of unemployed in East Turkistan. According to the report, 116,000 university and technical institutes’ graduates and 18,000 vocational school graduates need to get employed in 2009, including 60,000 graduates as well. Unemployed city labor forces in this year is 543,000 people, addition to 57,600 state – owned enterprise laid – |
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. | Although Kadir Topbaş holds his throne as Istanbul mayor, his party’s head-to-head fight with the main opposition CHP mayoral candidate ends in a close result, highlighting a significant drop in the ruling AKP’s support. AKP looses to CHP in 5 districts.
The confidence of the ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, was seriously shaken Sunday in Istanbul, traditionally seen as one of the |
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. | The aggressive Armenian units mercilessly dealt shortly with civilians in Urmiya, Khoy, Maku, Salmas, Baku, Iravan, Shamakhi, Guba, Shusha, Ganja, Lankaran, Kurdamir and other regions of Azerbaijan in 1918, murdered hundred thousand innocent Azerbaijanis.
91 years have passed since March 31 – Day of Genocide by Armenians against Azerbaijanis. Right on this day – March 31 of |
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. | Israeli police dressed in Palestinian garb who have gone under cover to catch violent Jewish settlers got a taste of what Palestinians routinely confront as Jewish settlers attacked undercover officers thinking they were Arabs, Israeli press reported. |
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. | The report comes after a 10-month investigation by the Information Warfare Monitor (IWM), which comprises researchers from Ottawa-based think tank SecDev Group and the University of Toronto’s Munk Centre for International Studies.
They were acting on a request from the Tibetan spiritual leader’s office to check whether the computers of his Tibetan exile network had been infiltrated. |
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. | Turkish voters have gone to the polls in nationwide local elections, seen as an indicator of support for the ruling Justice and Development party (AKP).
At least 48 million people are eligible to vote in Sunday’s elections to elect mayors and district administrators in 81 provinces. |
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. | the switch to summer time in Azerbaijan Republic happened on 04:00, forwarding the time one hour forward. According to Trend News, the transition to winter and summer time is carried out according to the decision of the Cabinet of Ministers. |
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. | Tens of thousands of demonstrators have marched through European cities to demand action on poverty, job losses and climate change ahead of a meeting of the world’s 20 leading economies.
In London, the British capital, about 35,000 protesters gathered on Saturday as part of an alliance of more than 100 trade |
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. | Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is likely to reshuffle his Cabinet after the local elections. He is expected to replace at least 13 ministers. While a move to divide the Culture and Tourism Ministry into two separate ministries also seems to be in the work. |
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. | On the same day, two Armenian gunmen attempt to assassinate Turkish Military Attaché, Master Sergeant Ismail Pamukcu, in Tehran as he leaves for work, seriously wounding the diplomat. ASALA claims responsibility.
Also in Tehran on the same day, two |
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. | The US military says it has evidence elements within Pakistan’s military intelligence, the ISI, continue to provide support for the Taleban.
Officials said that this support for militants had to end. |
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. | Spanish police have detained a PKK suspect who was sought for his alleged crimes in Turkey, Spanish authorities said Friday.
Remzi Kartal, a former |
