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. | Ministry’s director-general launches unprecedented attack on UN nuclear watchdog for ‘acting as an obstructive element, whose opinion serve as an excuse for countries to refrain from joining the efforts against Tehran’s nuclear program’ |
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. | Interior Ministry’s Department to Combat Organized Crimes and local police carried out an operation in Azerbaijani region Jalilabad on November 4 at about 01.00. Chief of Jalilabad region Police Office, Colonel Rasim Musayev told APA that an organized gang that trespassed from Iran on Azerbaijan, was neutralized while selling drugs in Shatirli settlement of Jalilabad region. |
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. | AUSTRALIANS are the victims of a secretive culture that makes public officials too frightened to release vital information, a damning report on the state of free speech in the nation has found.
The study of how information is kept hidden from the public has found that governments and judges are denying access to “vital information” through secrecy legislation, “flimsy” suppression orders and million dollar fees for individual Freedom of Information requests. |
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. | Secretary Rice says she is personally disappointed with the suspension of constitutional rule in Pakistan, but added that the crisis can be defused if General Musharraf reverses his decision and recommits to holding democratic elections.
The United States has provided more than $10 billion in assistance to Pakistan since 2001, much of it destined to bolster anti-terrorism efforts. Speaking in Jerusalem, Secretary Rice seemed to preclude an immediate severance of that aid. |