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. | Shootings were heard at the 2nd building of the Sate Oil Academy in Dilara Aliyeva str. at 9.30 am today. An unidentified man reportedly used “Makarov” pistol.
Operation, carried out at the Academy has been concluded. However, ANS PRESS correspondent reports from the site that specially trained dogs were brought to the shooting place |
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. | Four Lebanese generals detained for nearly four years in connection with the 2005 assassination of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri were released on Wednesday following a ruling to that effect by a special U.N. court.
The four were escorted separately out of Roumieh prison on the outskirts of Beirut in a convoy of vehicles after the pre-trial judge at |
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. | U.S. President Barack Obama marked his 100th day in office on Wednesday, saying he is “pleased but not satisfied” with the progress his administration has made. The president spoke at a question and answer forum near Saint Louis, Missouri. |
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. | Three blasts occurred within minutes of each other in markets in the impoverished Shiite district of Sadr City and two other neighbourhoods during afternoon rush hour when they were packed with mothers and schoolchildren. |
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. | The World Health Organisation has raised its pandemic alert for swine flu to the second highest level, meaning that it believes a global outbreak of the disease is imminent.
WHO says the phase 5 alert means there is sustained human-to-human spread in at least two countries. |
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. | “It is important that Armenia withdraw from Azerbaijani territories it occupied,” Turkey’s Chief of General Staff General Ilker BaÅŸbuÄŸ told pres conference today, CNN-Turk reports. |
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. | Russian Federal Security Service Office in Dagestan and Anti-Extremism Office of the Dagestan Interior Ministry arrested the citizens of nine countries, including 7 Azerbaijani and one Turkish, in Izberbash City of the republic. |
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. | The television channel was broadcasting from Denmark. Danish officials explain the channel stopped broadcasting on technical grounds despite the claims that this is a response to Turkey’s request. Roj TV was a reason for a big diplomatic scandal between Turkey and Denmark. For now Danish authorities refrain from speaking |
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. | Two Armenian gunmen riding a motorcycle open fire on a diplomatic spouse, Isik Yonder, as he drives his wife, Sadiye Yonder, to the Turkish Embassy where she works. Isik Yonder is killed and Sadiye Yonder is injured. Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) claims responsibility. |
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. | East Turkistan Information Center strongly condemns Pakistan’s recent extradition of nine Uyghur freedom fighters that arrested from Pakistan’s lawless tribal areas to China and demands that Pakistan refrain from future extraditions Uyghurs who forced to flee Pakistan to escape from torture and execution in China |
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. | Three die and nine are injured as police clash throughout the morning with a suspected terrorist in the Bostancı district on the Asian side
A police raid on an apartment building in Istanbul’s Bostancı neighborhood yesterday ended in the deaths of three people, including |
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. | Speaking from WHO headquarters in Geneva, Dr. Keiji Fukuda, Assistant Director-General for Health Security and Environment told reporters that this means there is sustained human-to-human transmission of the virus causing outbreaks in a contained geographic area. |
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. | Yunes Aghayan, a member of Iran’s Azerbaijani minority and an Ahl-e Haq follower, is at imminent risk of execution after being convicted of “enmity against Godâ€. He is held in Oromieh Prison in West Azerbaijan Province, in north-west Iran. Another man, Mehdi Qasemzadeh, was executed after being convicted in the same case around 28 February 2009, giving rise to fears that Yunes Aghayan could be executed at any time. |
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. | Sahandali Mohammadi, Bakhshali Mohammadi and Ebadollah Qasemzadeh were arrested when they replied to armed attack by Iranian troops on their village. Troops opened fire on people just because of their religious belief. |
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. | Turkish political leaders are displeased by US President Barack Obama’s decision to use ’Meds Yeghern’ during his April 24 statement to commemorate the 1915 events. Even though he did not say ’genocide,’ his usage of the Armenian term, which can be translated as ’Great Catastrophe,’ is still too close for comfort |
