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. | The massacre of about 20,000 innocent people – elderly, women and children started at the night of March 30, 1918.
Armenian Bolshevik troops led by Stepan Shaumyan massacred thousands of people, burnt Muslim shrines and confiscated the 400-million-manat estate of Baku residents. Tezepir Mosque was bombed, and one of the magnificent architectural buildings – Ismailiyyeh was burnt. |
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. | The Arab League foreign ministers who met in Baghdad on March 28-29 failed to sway the Syrian authorities. A day after the opposition was defeated in Homs, Bashar Assad’s foreign minister said that Syria would not talk with the League of Arab States, which had suspended Syria’s membership.
The Syrian president does not appear frightened by the possibility of isolation |
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. | Far-left candidate, George Galloway, won a landslide victory in the by-election for the Bradford West parliamentary seat in the U.K. on Thursday night. Galloway, a former Labour MP who was banished from the party after he called the Iraqi resistance to kill British soldiers in the country, celebrated his victory, tweeting to supporters, “Long live Iraq. Long live Palestine, free, Arab, dignified. George Galloway MP.”
The Bradford West constituency |
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. | President Aliyev underlined the dynamics of the development of current bilateral relations. “The documents signed today are very important. I hope that our relations will have a great future. We support the initiatives for further strengthening the unity of the Turkic nationsâ€. |
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. | This was the response of the Georgian Embassy in Baku to the request to comment on upcoming July “presidential elections” in the separatist Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, which calls itself “The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic” (NKR).
The Embassy in its comment was referring to the statement of the Georgian Foreign Ministry made on 23 September 2011 regarding “elections†to self-government bodies |
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. | Erdogan will begin his visit to China from East Turkistan (Xinjiang) Uyghur Autonomous Region.
This will be Erdogan’s first visit to China as the prime minister of Turkey. Erdogan visited China in 2003 as the chairman of the ruling Justice & Development (AK) Party. |
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. | More than 3,000 new historical monuments were revealed in Azerbaijan , First Deputy Culture and Tourism Minister Vagif Aliyev said.
About 7,000 historic sites were included in the official list, as a result the number of such sites registered in the country increased to 10,000. There can be found monuments |
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. | Tens of thousands of protesters packed a square in central Madrid to vent their anger at labour reforms and deep spending cuts, while in Barcelona, police fired rubber bullets to disperse a crowd that had set bins ablaze on the sidelines of a demonstration.
Thursday’s strike was called by trade unions protesting against labour reforms and spending cuts which the conservative government says are needed to save the economy, and |
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. | In particular, four senior diplomats and military intelligence officers say that the United States has concluded that Israel has recently been granted access to airbases on Iran’s northern border. To do what, exactly, is not clear. “The Israelis have bought an airfield,” a senior administration official told me in early February, “and the airfield is called Azerbaijan.” |
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. | President Almazbek Atambayev was welcomed here by First Deputy Prime Minister of Azerbaijan Yagub Eyyubov and other officials. The Kyrgyz leader and First Deputy Premier Yagub Eyyubov had a brief meeting |
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. | Turkey has offered to host the talks and the location will be decided in the next few days, Salehi said, after greeting Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on his arrival in Tehran.
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. | France is in talks with the United States and Britain on a possible release of strategic oil stocks to push fuel prices lower, French ministers said on Wednesday, four weeks before the country’s presidential election.
Earlier in March, British sources said London was prepared to cooperate with Washington on a release of strategic oil stocks that was expected within months, in a bid to prevent |
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. | The Syrian government has agreed to accept the six-point plan by joint United Nations-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan on ending the violence in Syria, the former UN chief’s spokesman has said.
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. | Prime Minister ErdoÄŸan will inugurate the Yunus Emre Culture Centre in Tehran on the sidelines of his visit to Iran.
Some experts believe that the premier is to hand a letter from US president addressed to Iranian authority, however this is not confirmed yet. |
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. | The main Syrian opposition block voiced support on Tuesday for a peace and ceasefire plan drawn up by U.N. and Arab League special envoy Kofi Annan so long as it led to the removal of President Bashar al-Assad.
The main Syrian opposition block voiced support on Tuesday for a peace and ceasefire plan drawn up by U.N. and Arab League special envoy Kofi Annan so long as it led to the removal |
