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. | Tens of thousands of Lebanese voted on Sunday to choose successors to two assassinated anti-Syrian politicians - Pierre Gemayel and Walid Eido.
Michel Aoun, the Christian opposition leader, said his candidate had narrowly beaten Amin Gemayel, a former Lebanese president and a key member of the ruling coalition in the Metn district northeast of Beirut. |
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. | The submitted Communications bring to focus once again the issues of collusion among different state departments and security machineries; racist policies are spearheaded by the Iranian authorities; the authorities are inventive in devising new mechanism for arbitrary acts; and gagging the activists of the National Movement of Southern Azerbaijan is widespread. Within this context, the comprehensive initiatives of the victims to defend their |
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. | The Islamic Republic tries to divide the public vote and thus send the non-Turkmen candidates to parliament because it is aware of the population density of the Turkmen nation in Turkmensahra. According to the reports from the area of Gorgan and Aq Qala, the ultra conservative circle tries to prevent the election of a Turkmen as the Member of Parliament. Thus, the Assembly of Experts of the regime tries to name Ali Taheri, the son of Ayatollah Taheri as the definitively appointed candidate and a Turkmen of Aq Qala who has a very weak personality |
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. | Russian gas giant Gazprom cancelled a threatened cut-off of gas supplies to Belarus on Friday after receiving the first payment to clear nearly half a billion dollars in debt, Gazprom said in a statement.
“Today Beltransgaz has made the first payment for a significant part of the debt it owes Gazpromm… The decision has been made to put off a reduction in gas supplies to Belarussian consumers,” the company said. |
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. | But who was Sabiha Gökçen? Turk or Armenian as some have claimed? Today she is remembered more for having her name on Istanbul’s second international airport than for her exploits during the first half of the last century Then one day in 1935 Gökçen accompanied Atatürk to the opening ceremony of the Türkkuşu (Turkish Bird) Civil Aviation School… As the two |
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. | New MPs are to approach the general assembly chair and swear to protect the ‘principles of Atatürk and a democratic, secular republic’. Those whose oaths cannot be heard or who misread the oath will be warned by the head of parliament and asked to repeat it. |
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. | Anniversary was organised by students and activists in Qum, holly city of Azerbaijan.
Bakhtyar Farrokh, Seyyed Heydar Bayat, Alireza Aghazadeh and Hasan Faraji were among those who joined the ceremony. |
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. | Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., who voted for the Iraq War and then argued it would be a mistake to set a “date certain” for withdrawing American troops from Iraq, is now declaring that she wants to end the War “today,” reports the N.Y. Times.
What’s more, concludes the report, the change in her stance has occurred gradually |