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Convicted axe murderer welcomed in Azerbaijan

By dog | Published: September 3, 2012

A huge crowd has welcomed home a convicted axe murderer to the Azerbaijan capital of Baku. The former soldier was extradited back to the country by Hungary after murdering an Armenian soldier in Budapest. The case has caused a diplomatic row between old adversaries Armenia and Azerbaijan. Al Jazeera’s Iain Bruce reports.

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UFO? Missile trace? New mystery spiral lights seen over Israel, Middle East

By dog | Published: June 8, 2012

A spaceship flying over Israel? A satellite or a Russian ballistic missile? An unidentified flying object observed in Middle East countries Thursday night has caused panic, with people calling the police to say they witnessed a UFO. DETAILS + PHOTOS on.rt.com WATCH RT video of spiral lights over Norway in 2009 www.youtube.com . Subscribe to [...]

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Frost Over the World – Ilham Aliyev: ‘Our future is in our hands’

By dog | Published: April 25, 2012

Azerbaijan’s president speaks about changes and development since the country gained independence.

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Inside Story – Debating genocide

By dog | Published: March 2, 2012

We ask why Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, is so determined to pass a law making it illegal to deny that the mass killings of Armenians during World War I was genocide. Pierre Purseigle, Robert Aydabirian and Mustafa Akyol discusses.

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Armenian Genocide – Armenia, November 2008

By dog | Published: January 27, 2012

The eviction and slaughter of over a million Armenians in Anatolia began in 1915. There’s little doubt Turkey was behind this massive ethnic cleansing. Yet the Turkish government denies the historical facts. Almost a century later, any mention of the genocide is still taboo. A law designed to protect ‘Turkishness’ is used to sue those [...]

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Anita McNaught reports on France’s ‘genocide’ vote

By dog | Published: January 25, 2012

Turkey has threatened retaliatory measures against France following a French senate vote approving a bill that would outlaw denial that the mass killings of Armenians in 1915 constituted genocide. Reporting from Istanbul, Al Jazeera’s Anita McNaught reports Turkish reactions and growing tensions.

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Turkish anger over French ‘genocide’ vote

By dog | Published: January 25, 2012

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish prime minister, says a controversial genocide bill passed by the French parliament is “racist”. The proposed law makes it illegal to deny that the mass killings of Armenians in 1915 constituted genocide. Turkey says relations between the countries will be seriously affected if French President Nicolas Sarkozy signs it into [...]

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France outlaws Armenian Genocide denial

By dog | Published: January 24, 2012

Turkey has vowed to retaliate, after the French Senate approved a bill making it a crime to deny that the massacre of Armenians by the Ottoman empire in 1915, was genocide. Ankara has already suspended military, political and economic ties with Paris.Both houses of the French parliament have passed the bill, which still has to [...]

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Witness – Grandma’s Tattoos

By dog | Published: January 13, 2012

A filmmaker makes a journey into her own family’s history to investigate the terrible truth behind her grandmother’s odd tattoos and, in the process, unveils the story of the Armenian women driven out of Ottoman Turkey during the First World War.

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Counting the Cost – The euro trigger

By dog | Published: November 28, 2011

A look at Hungary’s trip to the IMF, and Armenia’s export woes; and how the eurozone crisis prompted them both. Guests on the show include legal expert Alexander Currie; and HSBC’s chief economist Stephen King.

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