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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed on Friday that Iran would pursue its contested nuclear programme until it could mass-produce atomic fuel, and branded those trying to stop it as ”bullies”. ”We intend to continue our activity … until we manage industrial-scale production of nuclear fuel for our atomic power stations,” Ahmadinejad said.
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/ 9 November 2005
A crowd of at least 15Â 000 Azerbaijanis rallying on Baku’s Victory Square on Wednesday under a forest of orange flags called on the government to resign after reported vote fraud in weekend elections. Azadliq, the country’s largest opposition force, has demanded authorities order a re-vote or face regime change.
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/ 8 November 2005
The West heaped criticism on Tuesday on Azerbaijan’s conduct of parliamentary elections, but authorities in the oil-rich republic dug in their heels and denied major fraud. ”The elections were a step back for democracy in Azerbaijan,” Norwegian Ambassador Steinar Gil told journalists in the ex-Soviet state’s capital Baku.
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/ 7 November 2005
Parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan on Sunday did not meet international standards, an international oberver mission said on Monday in a damning appraisal of the state of democracy in the ex-Soviet republic.
One person was killed and at least five others seriously injured on Wednesday in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, when an escalator suddenly started moving and they were caught in the machinery, a hospital official said. Six people were in intensive care, a doctor said — including one whose arms were torn off at the shoulder.
Shamil knows one of two things will happen this month when he crosses from Azerbaijan to Chechnya to wage jihad: either the Russian infidels will leave his native Chechnya or he will join Allah in trying to force them out. He is one of a 6 000-strong Chechen diaspora in limbo in Baku.
George Soros, the billionaire financier and philanthropist, said on Thursday he disapproved of US President George Bush’s decision to take ”pre-emptive” military action against Iraq.