Rupert Murdoch wins Dow Jones at 11th hour
Wednesday 1 August 2007
. The agreement has secured for News Corporation a business Mr Murdoch has long coveted.

Although in recent years, his media empire has focused more on expansion within the fast-growing online realm rather than the struggling print

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Mohammad Reza Avazpur, an Azerbaijani teenage is released from prison
Wednesday 1 August 2007
. Him and his brothers are well known Azerbaijani activist who have been arrested several times and been charged.

He is on his 16s but was tortured and beaten by security forces and prison officers to confess or sing false statements, he denies any wrong doing and claims he is a Turk and only because of writing that he is a Turk was arrested by Basijis.

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Borders and Brethren: Iran and the Challenge of Azerbaijani Identity (BCSIA Studies in International Security) by Brenda Shaffer
Wednesday 1 August 2007
. She analyzes how Azerbaijanis have maintained their identity and how that identity has assumed different forms in the former Soviet Union and Iran. In addition to contributing to the study of ethnic identity, the book reveals the dilemmas of ethnic politics in Iran.
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Confronting Iran
Wednesday 1 August 2007
. For an American secretary of state and secretary of defence to visit the Middle East jointly is rare, and an indication of the strategic and political importance of this turbulent region. More unusual still is an announcement by Washington of huge arms deals to Israel and key Arab states without immediate uproar and accusations, by both sides, of bias. The new $63 billion package, however, has been calibrated to ensure the continued strategic balance among America’s allies in the region. While bolstering military aid to Israel by $30 billion, an increase of 25 per cent, the Americans are also to send arms to Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the
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German hostage in video appeal
Wednesday 1 August 2007
. Al Jazeera has aired video footage of Rudolph B, a German engineer who was taken hostage along with a colleague and several Afghans by the Taliban two weeks ago.

His colleague was killed by the

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Iran is not Persia!
Wednesday 1 August 2007
. It the Press TV’s advert there is a scene of lies:

Aspets of Persia
Short documentaries about life and people in Iran! Meaning: Iran is Persia and Persians are Fars. Fars, who are in power for only 80 years but have many dark points on their history of their chauvinistic policies, including banning language of other nations.

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Cheney admits was wrong about “last throes” in Iraq
Wednesday 1 August 2007
. It was Cheney’s most direct public admission of how badly the administration had underestimated the strength of America’s enemies in the increasingly unpopular war in Iraq.

But Cheney, an architect of

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German Official Slams US Arms Plan for Middle East
Wednesday 1 August 2007
. “The region is not suffering from a lack of arms but from a lack of stability,” Voigt said. “I have strong doubts whether stability could be achieved with these weapons.”

Bolstering democracy with weapons?

An official for the US defense

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International community can do nothing about world’s poorest countries
Wednesday 1 August 2007
. Every year the G8 leaders and participants of other important international summits promise to maintain and even increase the financial aid that the poorest countries so terribly need. However, the situation does not change radically. According to the UN Conference on Trade and
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Iran Confirms Two Kurdish Reporters Sentenced To Death
Wednesday 1 August 2007
. Iran’s judiciary today confirmed that two Iranian Kurdish journalists have been sentenced to death for being “enemies of God.”

Judiciary spokesman Alireza Jamshidi said they have 20 days to appeal their verdicts.

Adnan Hassanpur and Hiwa Butimar

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