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. | “There will be that choice because as the SNP only have one policy and that’s independence, then people who vote for the SNP have that opportunity to cast that vote in that way.”
The first minister has previously said he would consider a referendum question on more powers for the Scottish Parliament. |
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. | “A railway was hit by an explosion before a train travelling from Tyumen to (Azerbaijan’s capital) Baku passed. The train did not derail, although the locomotive pulled the carriages about 150 meters along the damaged rails,” a local police official was quoted as saying.
“The incident took place at about 06:00, Moscow time on |
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. | The United Arab Emirates offered banks emergency support on Sunday, the first steps to ease fears that a looming debt default by two of Dubai’s flagship firms could derail the global economic recovery.
But the move to inject liquidity into Dubai’s banks by the central bank of the Gulf Arab state, together with promises by neighboring city-state Abu Dhabi to provide selective support |
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. | Swiss voters are reported to have voted for a controversial ban on minarets, a move proposed by right-wingers and opposed by the government and parliament.
Fifty seven percent of Swiss voters have approved on Sunday a right-wing-backed proposal to ban construction of new minarets in Switzerland. If confirmed, the result would be a huge embarrassment for the neutral Swiss government, which had warned that amending the constitution to ban construction of minarets |
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. | Germany’s former defense minister Franz Josef Jung has stepped down from his cabinet position over an alleged cover-up regarding civilian deaths during a NATO airstrike in Afghanistan in September.
Announcing his resignation to reporters in Berlin on Friday, Jung said he would take responsibility for any policy mistakes. |
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. | The board of the International Atomic Energy Agency has censured Iran for its nuclear program, in a motion endorsed Friday by all five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.
Twenty five nations in the 35-member board of the International Atomic Energy Agency voted in favor of the censure motion, which calls on Iran to halt construction of a recently revealed uranium |
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. | In connection with this, Northern Azerbaijani Cabinet of Ministers has declared November 27-30, 2009, as non-working days.
BayBak congratulates Azerbaijani people on sacred Gurban holiday. |
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. | Prime Minister Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan has paid a 2-day visit to Libya, with a group of businessmen and deputies accompanying him.
The contact of Turkish and Libyan authorities highlighted bilateral trade relations during the first visit at Prime Ministerial level after 13 years. Premier ErdoÄŸan met Libyan President |
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. | A bus collided with a tank in Azerbaijan’s capital, Republic State Traffic Police Office told APA.
The accident happened in Pirekushkul settlement, on Baku-Shamakhy highway this evening. The bus going from Baku to Gobustan collided with the tank near the military unit. |
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. | The bullet-riddled bodies of 24 people were found buried in shallow graves yesterday in a remote farming area of Maguindanao province, adding to the 22 corpses police had already discovered on Monday that had been dumped along a dirt road. Local officials said the victims, including 14 women and several journalists, were shot at close range and then hurriedly piled on top of one another in a pit dug up with a bulldozer.
And there were warnings that the death toll was only likely to rise. “We still have to check one other suspected mass grave,” the national police chief Jesus Verzosa told local reporters while inspecting the area. As grieving relatives took away the their loved ones’ bodies for burial, troops were looking for 40 people still missing, using shovels and their bare |
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. | Yavuz EfendioÄŸlu was known for his efforts to protect the unity and unitarian structure of Iraq.
The incident was met with reactions among Iraqi Turkmen, and condemnation from Turkey. According to Turkmen officials, unidentified men arrived at EfendioÄŸlu’s house |
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. | Eliezer said before his flight to Turkey that Israel hopes to set up trust relationship with Turkey again as the two countries have extremely important strategic interests.
Noting that he visits Turkey as the representative of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Eliezer also gave signs of Israel’s wish to restart indirect talks with Syria. However, Netanyahu said |
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. | A potentially devastating bomb attack on a police headquarters in Belfast, Northern Ireland on Saturday night failed when a massive car bomb did not detonate fully.
On Sunday, police said the 180-kilogram (400-pound) device would have caused “widespread destruction” had it functioned as planned. It is thought that |
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. | Landslides devastated several houses in northeastern Turkey on Saturday, killing at least three people, Anatolia news agency reported.
According to local governor Recep Kızılcık, two victims were crushed to death when a large rock smashed their two story house in the Black Sea port city of Trabzon, reported Agence France- Presse. The |
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. | He will meat Armenian president regarding Armenian occupied territories of Azerbaijan. Mr. Aliyev had reminded that all options are on table, including military action to free Azerbaijani lands. |
