News List
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Somalia's al-Shabab joins al-Qaida, leader says
9 February 2012, 22:24 (GMT+04:00)The Somali militant group al-Shabab has formally joined al-Qaida, according to a video translation released Thursday of a message from al-Qaida's leader.
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Turkish FM to visit United States
9 February 2012, 22:24 (GMT+04:00)Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu begins his official visit to United States, TRT Haber reported. His meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected.
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Syrian death toll rises as troops bombard restive areas
9 February 2012, 21:59 (GMT+04:00)At least 126 people were killed across Syria on Thursday, opposition activists said, as government forces intensified their attacks on dissident areas despite sharp international condemnation and increased diplomatic isolation.
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Turkey foresees bitter end to Syrian regime
9 February 2012, 21:32 (GMT+04:00)The Syrian regime faces a bloody demise, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned.
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IMF blocks credit to Serbia over excessive spending
9 February 2012, 20:54 (GMT+04:00)The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday suspended the release of the first tranche of a 1.1-billion-dollar credit line to Serbia, saying Belgrade had failed to keep spending within the agreed limits, dpa reported.
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126 killed in Syria violence
9 February 2012, 20:52 (GMT+04:00)At least 126 people were killed across Syria on Thursday in an intensified crackdown by government troops, opposition activists said, dpa reported.
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Organizational issues on meeting between Visegrád Group and countries of Eastern Partnership discussed in Tbilisi
9 February 2012, 20:35 (GMT+04:00)Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze and the Ambassador of the Czech Republic Ivan Jestrab discussed the organizational issues on the meeting between Visegrád Group and countries of Eastern Partnership scheduled for March 5, the Georgian Foreign Ministry told Trend on Thursday.
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CBA determines the direction of non-cash payments up to 2017
9 February 2012, 20:33 (GMT+04:00)The Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA) has completed preparation of the project of state program on development of the country's non-cash payments in 2012-2016
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Kazakhstan remains major grain exporter for Egypt
9 February 2012, 20:33 (GMT+04:00) -
Azerbaijan to become shareholder of ECOBANK
9 February 2012, 20:33 (GMT+04:00) -
Kazakhstan introduces new rules for communication and Internet services
9 February 2012, 20:14 (GMT+04:00) -
Azerbaijani state operator will consider the introduction of mobile CDMA
9 February 2012, 20:13 (GMT+04:00) -
Saudi Arabia and South Korea sign oil agreement
9 February 2012, 20:12 (GMT+04:00) -
Azerbaijan prohibits 396 tax debtors to leave the country in 2011
9 February 2012, 20:11 (GMT+04:00)About 70-80 percent of taxpayers in Azerbaijan fulfill their tax obligations in 2011
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Ministry: Azerbaijan has broad opportunities to reduce tax rates
9 February 2012, 18:49 (GMT+04:00)There are broad opportunities in Azerbaijan to reduce tax rates in the future, the head of the department for economic policy, analysis and forecasting under the Ministry of Economic Development Adalat Muradov said.
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FM: Federal government official’s politicization of "Eurovision" song contest in Baku is unacceptable
9 February 2012, 18:48 (GMT+04:00)Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Markus Löning rashly and unfairly politicized the issue of the "Eurovision" song contest in Baku, spokesman for the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry Elman Abdullayev told Trend today.
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BTC transports 2.8 mln tons of Azerbaijani oil in Jan.
9 February 2012, 18:47 (GMT+04:00) -
France boosts small and medium enterprise cooperation with Azerbaijan
9 February 2012, 18:47 (GMT+04:00) -
Conoco Phillips to prepare report within project in Azerbaijan
9 February 2012, 18:46 (GMT+04:00) -
Azerbaijani Central Bank creates portal for e-tax payment
9 February 2012, 18:41 (GMT+04:00)The Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA) is working to create a portal to pay taxes and state fees based on the Komis platform, CBA official Kamala Gurbanova said at the forum "Tax system in Azerbaijan: realities and perspectives" in Baku today.
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E-audit to start on banking sector in Azerbaijan
9 February 2012, 18:38 (GMT+04:00)The Azerbaijani Tax Ministry has prepared a bill that will ensure a legal basis to introduce e-audits in the country, official Asaf Asadov said at the forum "Tax System in Azerbaijan: realities and perspectives" in Baku on Thursday.
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Turkish Is Bankasi decides to create two banks in Azerbaijan
9 February 2012, 18:34 (GMT+04:00) -
Azerbaijani Taxes Ministry supports revision of income tax rate
9 February 2012, 18:31 (GMT+04:00)Income tax rate in Azerbaijan may be revised since it, according to held calculations, doesn’t affect significantly revenues of the state budget
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Azerbaijan examines revision of direct taxes’ rates
9 February 2012, 18:29 (GMT+04:00)State budget revenues in Azerbaijan increased by over 75,000 times and expenditure by 83,000 times over the past twenty years
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Azerbaijan’s ruling party: Isa Gambar manipulates Musavat’s chairman elections
9 February 2012, 18:27 (GMT+04:00)Chairman of the opposition Musavat party Isa Gambar manipulates elections of the party’s chairman
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SOCAR makes presentation to Exxon Mobil
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Five groups of conservators to compete at parliamentary elections in Iran
9 February 2012, 18:24 (GMT+04:00)As the parliamentary elections in Iran, scheduled for March 2, approach the differences in the camp of the conservatives deepen. Five fronts that announced nomination of their lists for the elections have been formed inside this camp.
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Kazakhstan plans to decrease wheat crops
9 February 2012, 18:13 (GMT+04:00) -
France not to change its position on prompt Nagorno Karabakh conflict resolution (PHOTO)
9 February 2012, 18:09 (GMT+04:00)France’s position on the prompt resolution of Nagorno Karabakh conflict will stay stable regardless of the French supreme Constitutional Council’s decision on “Armenian genocide” law, Andre Reichardt, First Vice-President of the Regional Council of Alsace (France), Senator of Bas-Rhin told in an interview to Trend during his visit to Azerbaijan
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Minister: Azerbaijan should create competitive tax system
9 February 2012, 18:02 (GMT+04:00)Azerbaijan should create a competitive tax system and administration, Azerbaijani Taxes Minister Fazil Mammadov said in Baku addressing the forum on 'Tax System in Azerbaijan: realities and perspectives', on Thursday.
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Schedule of Iranian ports' operations for Feb. 3-4
9 February 2012, 17:57 (GMT+04:00) -
Kyrgyzstan interested in Russian agricultural machinery supplies
9 February 2012, 17:53 (GMT+04:00) -
Explosion occurs in microbe lab in Iran
9 February 2012, 17:50 (GMT+04:00)An explosion occurred in a microbe laboratory of pharmaceutics in Iran's Mashhad city, ISNA reported.
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Kyrgyzstan, UAE mull intensification of economic cooperation
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Tajikistan to improve law on insurance and state pensions
9 February 2012, 17:47 (GMT+04:00)Tajikistan’s Ministry of Labor and Social Protection has developed legal acts to realize the law about “Insurance and State pensions”
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Iran to unveil satellite space center soon
9 February 2012, 17:47 (GMT+04:00)Iran will unveil satellite space center in the beginning of next Iranian year.
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Romania's new cabinet voted in, set to keep reformist course
9 February 2012, 17:43 (GMT+04:00)The Romanian parliament on Thursday gave its backing to new Prime Minister Mihai Razvan Ungureanu and his cabinet, which is expected to stick to the country's course of economic reform despite the protests which toppled Ungureanu's predecessor
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French Senate’s “Armenian genocide” law has good chances to be cancelled (PHOTO)
9 February 2012, 17:39 (GMT+04:00)A law criminalizing denial of the so-called "Armenian genocide", adopted by the French Senate at the end of last year, has good chances be canceled, member of the Senate Commission for International Affairs Nathalie Goulet told in an interview to Trend during the visit to Azerbaijan
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Fitch assigns SOCAR's USD notes final senior unsecured 'BBB-' Rating
9 February 2012, 17:33 (GMT+04:00)Fitch Ratings has assigned State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic's (SOCAR) USD500m 5.45% notes due 9 February 2017 a final foreign currency senior unsecured rating of 'BBB-', in line with SOCAR's Long-term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) of ('BBB-'/Stable), the company said today.
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CIS interested in joint humanitarian projects with Turkmenistan
9 February 2012, 17:22 (GMT+04:00)A delegation of the CIS Interstate Humanitarian Cooperation Fund expressed interest in deepening partnership with Turkmenistan, including through implementing joint projects, local media outlets reported on Thursday.
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Kazakhstan to audit airports and airlines
9 February 2012, 17:22 (GMT+04:00)At a meeting attended by the Transport and Communications Ministry in Kazakhstan and the Civil Aviation Committee, Minister Askar Zhumagaliyev said airports and airlines must submit audits.
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Aktau port cuts oil transshipment in January
9 February 2012, 17:19 (GMT+04:00) -
Azerbaijan to host ice climbing championship
9 February 2012, 17:18 (GMT+04:00)The Federation of Air and Extreme Sports in Azerbaijan jointly with the Youth and Sport Ministry will hold an open ice climbing championship on frozen waterfalls near the Lyazya village in Gusar province on Feb. 11-12.
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Azerbaijani President receives Albanian PM (PHOTO)
9 February 2012, 17:16 (GMT+04:00)President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has today received Prime Minister of Albania Sali Berisha.
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European Championship in Gymnastics to be held in Baku in 2014 (PHOTO)
9 February 2012, 17:16 (GMT+04:00)The decision to hold the European Championship in Gymnastics in Azerbaijan in 2014 was made today.
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Azerbaijani Central Election Commission to observe elections in Turkmenistan
9 February 2012, 16:27 (GMT+04:00)A delegation of the Central Election Commission (CEC) in Azerbaijan will participate in the presidential elections in Turkmenistan as observers.
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Azerbaijani Communication Ministry fights cyber threats
9 February 2012, 16:25 (GMT+04:00)The Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies of Azerbaijan is doing everything necessary to improve the sustainability of information resources to cyber threats, deputy minister of Communications and Information Technologies of Azerbaijan Elmir Valizadeh
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Gold prices grow in Azerbaijan’s favour
9 February 2012, 16:13 (GMT+04:00)Gold continues to be in the focus of investors’ attention and judging by the current state of the world economy, will not lose its lustre during the coming years. Excess demand for gold as a safe haven asset has provoked a rise in prices. The April gold futures trading at the New York Stock Exchange on the Comex on the basis of trading amounted to $1731.3 per troy ounce. A day earlier, gold has risen in price to $1,748.4.
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EU ambassador: Azerbaijan has modern tax system
9 February 2012, 16:10 (GMT+04:00)Azerbaijan has a modern tax system, EU delegation in Azerbaijan head Roland Kobia said at the forum "Tax System in Azerbaijan: realities and prospects" held in Baku on Thursday.
