" A MUST READ report. Reporting by Tariq Saeedi in Ashgabat, With Sergi Pyatakov in Moscow, Ali Nasimzadeh in Zahidan, Qasim Jan in Kandahar and S M Kasi in Quetta. Additional reporting by Rupa Kival in New Delhi and Mark Davidson in Washington An...
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"America’s military policy is following its foreign policy which follows the smell of oil. Forget freedom and democracy. That’s for fools. Pakistanis are fooling themselves if they think President Obama will be able to change this. Let’s pray he does. The...
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STOREY OF CONTINUENCE IF VIOLANCE has become the regulation storey every day some casualty is geting reported from somewhere So it is the Turkey turn to give the News." ANKARA (Reuters) - Fifteen Turkish...
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"Iran, Pakistan and India will sign a deal this month to build a natural gas pipeline to help feed the subcontinent’s desperate need for energy, indeed a major blow to illegal US-led sanctions against Tehran and a defeat for US influence in South Asia. The $7.5 billion...
Much of China is still locked in bitter snow that has been coming down for well over a week now. International aid organizations like the Red Cross and other countries have extended help to the frozen...
"Misery for millions as temperatures plummet across the Middle East - The Middle East is shivering amid exceptionally low temperatures. The severe cold snap, caused by a weather system spawned in Siberia, has...
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8 have died as a result of major snow storms and cold weather in Iran. The government has shut down schools and offices and has stopped the shipment of gas to Turkey because of local shortages. "The worst...
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The smoke had not yet cleared from the crime scene before Osama bin Laden had been named the perpetrating bogeyman of the 9.11 attacks. Only days later, US intelligence...
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"Russia's threat in early August to nearly halve the amount of gas it exports to Belarus over unpaid bills must have brought back bad memories for many in Europe.
Memories, for instance, of earlier this year, when...
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Turkmenbashi, the Turkmen dictator who died in December 2006, built the most elaborate personality cult of the 21st century. Ashgabat, his white marble capital, became a monument to his ego and his aspirations. Paid for by oil and gas revenue, his people were left to live a...
"According to the Open Society Institute, one of Berdymukhammedov's first actions was to arrest the speaker of parliament, Ovezgeldy Atayev, who, according to the constitution, should have been Niyazov's successor. Atayev was then criminally charged, effectively taking him...
"MOSCOW, December 27 - The leader of Turkmenistan's United Democratic Opposition, currently based in Norway, proposed Wednesday sending a trainload of flour to Turkmenistan and carrying out a "flour" revolution in the republic.
President-for-Life Saparmurat Niyazov died at...
"Turkmenistan's president for life Saparmurat Niyazov has died at the age of 66, state television has reported. Known outside of the desert nation on the Caspian mostly for his tremendous ego, Niyazov had himself...
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"SUVA, Fiji: Fiji's powerful tribal chiefs failed Thursday to approve a draft plan to restore civilian rule to the South Pacific nation and end the crisis sparked by a military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase on Dec. 5.
Late Thursday,...
"SUVA, Fiji: Fiji's powerful tribal chiefs failed Thursday to approve a draft plan to restore civilian rule to the South Pacific nation and end the crisis sparked by a military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase on Dec. 5.
Late Thursday,...