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. | Families of Iraqis who died in a shooting involving Blackwater USA contractors in Baghdad have sued the company, saying the firm violated US law and fostered a culture of lawlessness among its employees.
A US rights group announced on Thursday it was filing a petition against Blackwater on behalf of a survivor and the families of three victims. |
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. | NATO member Turkey recalled its ambassador to the United States for consultations on Thursday after a vote in a U.S. congressional committee branded killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks genocide.
The committee’s decision is expected to weaken U.S. influence over Turkey at a time when the government is considering a military incursion into mainly Kurdish northern Iraq to fight Kurdish rebels. |
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. | Iranian news agency “Fars” is not happy of international news agencies. They think all agencies are wrong because they did not reported that Doris Lessing is an Iranian writer! Fars news agency claims that if the winner was American or Israeily, all agencies were happy to announce that! but because the winner is an Iranian! all have chosen to be quiet!
Ms. Lessing was born in a British family in Kermanshah-Iran while her parents were working in a bank and a hospital. |
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. | The annual report on military-technical cooperation and international experts emphasized concealing military leadership of Armenia purchases in Slovakia 35 aircraft missiles ML X-25 and X-29 L.
Although the official Bratislava said that the supply of arms to Armenia in 2005, Yerevan categorically refused to provide information about the transaction. It should be noted |
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. | Ankara rejects the Armenian position, backed by many Western historians and some foreign parliaments, that up to 1.5 million Armenians suffered genocide at the hands of Ottoman Turks during World War One.
Turkey says many Muslim Turks died alongside Christian Armenians in inter-ethnic conflict as the Ottoman Empire collapsed. IRAQ The White House had warned the resolution would harm ties with Turkey, which is an important logistics player in the Iraq war. |
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. | Oil prices rose more than a dollar on Wednesday on expectations of tight fuel inventories heading into the Northern Hemisphere winter and news of a fire at BP Plc’s oil field in Alaska.
U.S. crude jumped $1.04 to $81.30 a barrel by 2:30 p.m. EDT, after gaining more than $1.24 on Tuesday. London Brent crude rose $1.11 to $78.60. |
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. | In 2005, El-Masri filed suit against George Tenet and several private contractors for their role in his abduction. But el-Masri has been unable to gain a court hearing in the US due to the administration’s invocation of the “state secrets privilege, which allows the government to block release of any information deemed harmful to national security.” |
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. | Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, fired the government after Hamas forcibly took control of Gaza.
Abbas, who will attend a US-sponsored conference on Palestinian statehood next month, has ruled out re-engagement with Hamas unless it submits to his authority and ends its control of Gaza. |
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. | Presidents stated that energy security was the important issue at the background of modern realities. The statement says that this forum is not directed against any country, as well as Russia.
“Finding new partners in energy sector will give opportunity to create health competition atmosphere in energy market. Odessa-Brodi project and its extension till Europe is very perspective”. |
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. | Iraq’s division by the will of a super power and without the consent of the United Nations is harmful both for the whole world and for the United Nations itself.
The United States openly supports Iraq’s division against the Turkmens and disregards its former ally Turkey. Separation of the Northern Iraq would cause the Kurds to covet the territories of Turkey and to pay efforts to divide Turkey. It is now time for the Turkmens in Iran, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Syria, Turkey, and Iraq and the Turkmens throughout the world to rise and unite against |