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26 February 2010 [13:25]
A 3-month "Step ahead" will start in Yerevanon Feb. 27.
26 February 2010 [13:05]
Representatives of Georgian diaspora organized a rally near the European Commission building in Brussels urging to admit the presence of the political prisoners problem.
26 February 2010 [12:54]
The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in its meeting in Vienna on Thursday issued a statement to support Iran’s peaceful nuclear activities.
26 February 2010 [12:48]
Turkey's chief negotiator for European Union talks has urged Turkish and Greek Cypriot leaders to reach a settlement by April this year.
26 February 2010 [12:27]
26 February 2010 [11:48]
The National Democratic Party of Georgia and the National Forum have slammed those opposition parties, who have assembled around Zurab Noghaideli, ex-PM who has chosen pro-Russian course.
26 February 2010 [11:35]
The US and Israel have opened talks on Iran's nuclear program following Russia's rejection of imposing tougher sanctions on Tehran.
26 February 2010 [11:24]
By 70 to four, the Armenian Parliament adopted amendments to the RA Law on International Agreements in their second reading on Feb. 25.
26 February 2010 [11:07]
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu and Armenian President Serge Sarkisian met in Kiev on Thursday.
26 February 2010 [10:53]
Russia is ready to resume regular flights with Georgia, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told TV Company Russia Today and radio station Golos Rossii.
26 February 2010 [10:44]
US State Department spokesman Philip Crowley claims that Washington does not aim to impose "crippling" sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program.
26 February 2010 [10:38]
Turkey's state-run news agency says police have detained Tarkan, Turkey's best-known pop star who makes top music charts worldwide, along with some other entertainers in Istanbul.
26 February 2010 [10:14]
26 February 2010 [10:06]
The US State Department spokesman says President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to Syria will undermine Damascus' position in the Middle East.
26 February 2010 [09:55]
Georgia and the United States have signed a new economic agreement.
26 February 2010 [09:44]
25 February 2010 [20:11]
25 February 2010 [19:52]
Armenia's parliament on Thursday adopted legal amendments described as an "exit strategy" for withdrawing from a landmark deal to establish ties with Turkey after decades of hostility.
25 February 2010 [19:44]
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday that all countries in the region call for genuine peace and are determined to attain it.
25 February 2010 [19:30]
Turkish State Minister for foreign trade Zafer Caglayan said on Thursday that economic relations between Turkey and France did not reflect the actual potential.
25 February 2010 [19:23]
The Iranian military has introduced a new squadron of domestically-manufactured Saeqeh fighter-bombers to the country's Air Force to strengthen its deterrence power.
25 February 2010 [19:16]
Georgia has become an associated member of the International Electrotechnical Commission (body of international standards in electrotechnical sphere).
25 February 2010 [18:59]
The subsidiary company of the Turkish Airlines (THY) will start flying between Turkish and Syrian capital cities.
25 February 2010 [18:50]
Tehran and Damascus signed the agreement to abolish the visa regime between the countries.
25 February 2010 [18:25]
Turkey said were concerned about labelling certain Islamic historical artifacts as "Israeli cultural heritage" including those in the West Bank.
25 February 2010 [18:15]
Ex-Navy and Air Force chiefs Özden Örnek and İbrahim Fırtına, and the general staff’s former number two, Ergin Saygun, were brought to an Istanbul court Thursday by anti-terror police.
25 February 2010 [18:12]
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said that transparency can resolve the Iranian nuclear standoff with the West.
25 February 2010 [18:06]
French oil company Total is getting prepared to make a 100 million USD investment in Turkey.
25 February 2010 [17:43]
Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos will arrive in Armenia in early March within the framework of his regional visit, diplomatic sources said.
25 February 2010 [17:18]
The working group on economic issues, established in the framework of Georgia-USA Charter, will hold another sitting today.
25 February 2010 [17:11]
The OSCE Minsk Group (MG) is not interested in resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Iranian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Mohammad Bagir Behrami told journalists at today's news conference.
25 February 2010 [17:05]
A Turkish petty officer was charged with insulting the prime minister Thursday after he confessed to using a call and sign that referred to the leader as "vulgar".
25 February 2010 [16:55]
Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani has announced the Islamic Republic will study a Japanese offer to enrich uranium for Tehran.
25 February 2010 [16:34]
The alert on a bomb planted in the Armenian State Revenue Committee premises was a false alarm.
25 February 2010 [16:21]
25 February 2010 [16:05]
Iran's ambassador to the UN nuclear watchdog has described the latest IAEA report on Tehran's nuclear work as "unbalanced."
25 February 2010 [15:44]
The number of foreigners visiting Turkey was up 7.7 percent in January 2010 over January 2009, the ministry said on Thursday.
25 February 2010 [15:31]
Rumors claiming that Armenia's ex-President Robert Kocharyan will be appointed to the post of prime minister are untrue, Kocharyan’s Spokesperson Victor Soghomonyan said.
25 February 2010 [15:23]
U.S. State Secretary Hilary Clinton has said in her speech at the Foreign Relations' Committee of the Senate, that the U.S. government would increase assistance to Georgia.
25 February 2010 [15:12]
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has arrived in Damascus to discuss with his Syrian counterpart Bashar Assad the threat that Israel poses to the Middle East and beyond.
25 February 2010 [14:45]
Turkey’s newly-appointed ambassador to the United States submitted his credentials to the U.S. president on Wednesday.
25 February 2010 [14:36]
Russia's eminent human rights defenders Valreria Novodvorskaya and Konstantin Borovoy visited Tbilisi today.
25 February 2010 [14:27]
25 February 2010 [14:11]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has made comments that hint at further delays in the delivery of the S-300 missile defense system to Iran.
25 February 2010 [13:58]
Syrian Premier Muhammad Naji al-Utri invited Turkish companies to Syria.
25 February 2010 [13:42]
Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze will pay a working visit to Slovenia on Feb. 25-26.
25 February 2010 [13:34]
Head of Iran's Drug Control Headquarters Brigadier General Esmail Ahmadi-Moqaddam says by next year all Iranian airports will be equipped with body scanners.
25 February 2010 [13:26]
The Armenian Government is developing a package of measures to relieve the consequences of the expected rise in gas prices, Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan stated on Feb. 24.
25 February 2010 [13:20]
Turkey's new ambassador to Ukraine met with Crimean officials and discussed bilateral relations and a mutual free zone in any future.
25 February 2010 [13:05]
The Turkish-Azerbaijani Friendship and Cooperation Fund chairman Ihsan Dogramaci has died at age of 95 years, CNN Turk reported.
25 February 2010 [12:47]
Turkey's president and PM will hold a meeting with the country's top military commander, a government source said.
25 February 2010 [12:36]
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad censure what he describes as self-proclaimed anti-terror fighters for their double standards in countering terrorists.
25 February 2010 [12:06]
25 February 2010 [11:58]
A senior Russian diplomat says his country will not support what he called crippling sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program.
25 February 2010 [11:15]
25 February 2010 [11:07]
Armenia’s first President, leader of the opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC) Levon Ter-Petrosyan held a meeting on Feb. 24 with the Ambassador of the EU member-states to Armenia.
25 February 2010 [10:51]
Volodymyr Litvin, Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada [Ukrainian Parliament], is sure that relations of Ukraine with Georgia and other countries will develop further.
25 February 2010 [10:45]
25 February 2010 [10:33]
UN Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expects the UN Security Council to impose new sanctions against Iran in the “next 30 to 60 days.”
25 February 2010 [10:12]
25 February 2010 [10:04]
25 February 2010 [09:53]
25 February 2010 [09:45]
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad heading a delegation departed for Damascus, Syria, on Thursday morning.
24 February 2010 [21:55]
Heads of Palestinian armed resistance groups will meet in Tehran on Feb. 27-28 with the participation of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahamadinjad.
24 February 2010 [21:36]
Iranian security forces have arrested three members of a terrorist group in the northwestern city of Sardasht as they tried to cross over into the country.
24 February 2010 [21:27]
Turkish State Minister for foreign trade Zafer Caglayan participated in the "Turkey-Syria Business Forum" in Damascus on Wednesday.
24 February 2010 [21:04]
24 February 2010 [20:52]
On Feb. 24, photojournalist Gagik Shamshyan was beaten up just in front of the Armenian Prosecutor General’s Office.
24 February 2010 [20:44]
Prosecutors Wednesday questioned 20 former and active military personnel from a group of nearly 50 who were detained Monday for allegedly plotting a coup.
24 February 2010 [20:35]
Japan has offered to enrich uranium for Iran allowing access to nuclear power by the Islamic Republic, the Nikkei business daily reports.
24 February 2010 [20:17]
Aylin Duruoğlu, the Web coordinator of daily Vatan, was released pending trial Tuesday in the first hearing of the case in which she was charged of being a member of a terrorist organization.
24 February 2010 [20:08]
24 February 2010 [19:57]
The United States has again opposed Iran's latest offer to the UN nuclear watchdog for the purchase of fuel it requires for a Tehran research reactor.
24 February 2010 [19:51]
A Turkish doner kebab vendor told a German court Wednesday how he stabbed his teenaged daughter 68 times in their home, but he denied the attack was an honour killing.
24 February 2010 [19:39]
This morning Iran has executed the Jundullah terrorist organization leader Abdolmalek Rigi's brother Abdulkhamid Rigi.