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Day 4: Behind the scenes at the Cannes Film Festival

Agence France-PresseMay 18, 2013 05:30
Behind the scenes at the May 15-26 Cannes Film Festival: SPARKLING HUMOUR: Stars have been quick to quip about Friday's predawn jewellery theft at Cannes hotel. Just hours before the heist, the festival had premiered "The Bling Ring," a movie about teens who rob the homes of Hollywood celebrities. "I promise I'm innocent," British actress Emma Watson, who plays one of the girls gone wild, told The Hollywood Reporter. "I can have someone vouch for my whereabouts at the time of the robbery."

Putin denies he is returning Russia to Stalinism

April 25, 2013 08:16
MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he was not returning Russia to the era of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and denied any political motive in the prosecution and jailing of opponents. In response to a question from a liberal journalist at his annual phone-in, Putin said he saw "no element of Stalinism" in the country since his return to the presidency last May.

Azerbaijan’s President visits Hajigabul region

April 15, 2013 16:31
Alibey Zeynallı; Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev is visiting Hajigabul region. APA’s local bureau reports that the Head of State will open the road from the center of Hajigabul region to Renjber village, new water pipeline, visit Heydar Aliyev Center. Following this, the Head of State will attend the opening of hostel and headquarters built for the personnel of the Interior Troops and tile plant.Azeri-Press news agency

Mobile photo-exhibition on horrors of Khojaly opens in Israel

April 12, 2013 14:02
A mobile photo-exhibition on Khojaly tragedy is going on in Israel.

Azerbaijan has not provided aid to Iran after quake hit city Bushehr

April 12, 2013 14:02
Ali Alibeyli ; Azerbaijan has not provided aid to the neighboring country to eliminate the consequences of the earthquake in Bushehr, Azerbaijani Deputy Prime Minister Abid Sharifov told APA.Though Sharifov did not reveal the reasons, he advised the journalists to remember which foreign countries had provided aid to Azerbaijan after the quake hit the country a few years ago: “Which countries provided aid to the quake-hit Azerbaijan? We have helped all.

Leyla Aliyeva: “Tolerance and friendliness is a way of life for us”

April 12, 2013 14:02
Rashad Suleymanov ; Representative of MGIMO Alumni Association in Azerbaijan Leyla Aliyeva made a speech at the second session of the first international forum of Moscow State Institute of International Relations Alumni in Baku, APA reports. Addressing the session on “Energy and environmental parameters of the global economy towards sustainable development,” Leyla Aliyeva said that she is very pleased that the first international forum of Moscow State Institute of International Relations Alumni is being held in Azerbaijan: “Our country has been always distinguished by its hospitalit

Presidential Administration’s representative: “A group of persons calling themselves believers attempt to commit provocations to show themselves to their patrons abroad”

April 12, 2013 12:53
Ramiz Mikayiloghlu; “The whole world knows that under the instructions of President, churches and synagogues are being restored and constructed in Azerbaijan, along with mosques” representative of socio-political department of the Presidential Administration Janpolad Musayev said at the regional conference on the 90th anniversary of Heydar Aliyev in Shamakhi, APA reports.“Recently, a group of persons calling themselves well-known theologians, believers attempt to commit provocations to show themselves to their patrons abroad.

Gorbachev says "exceptional" Thatcher helped end Cold War

April 8, 2013 10:45
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Margaret Thatcher was "a great politician and an exceptional person" who helped end the Cold War, said Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union. Thatcher, Britain's first woman prime minister, died of a stroke on Monday. "Thatcher was a politician whose word carried great weight," Gorbachev, who sought to reform the Soviet Union and improved its ties with the West but failed to avert the collapse of the nuclear-armed superpower, said on his website.

Azerbaijan invests over $1.2 bn in development of national aviation

April 5, 2013 13:32
Nijat Mustafayev; To the present day, Azerbaijan invested AZN 956.3 mln (about 1.226 billion dollars) to the national aviation and air fleets, Azerbaijani Transport Minister Ziya Mammadov told in interview to The Business Year, APA-Economics reports.To him, over the past few years, the air fleet of Azerbaijan hassignificantly developed. Thus, new Boeing, Airbus aircrafts and helicopters wee added to the fleet.‘A new international airport was built in Gabala and the airports in Nakhchivan, Ganja, Lankaran and Zagatala were repaired.

Developer tears down further stretch of Berlin Wall

March 27, 2013 14:02
A property developer removed more of the Berlin Wall on Wednesday in a surprise dawn move amid a bitter running protest over the dismantling of the once-detested Cold War division. Four segments were taken down from around 5:00 am (0400 GMT) from the Wall's longest surviving stretch, creating a gap of more than six metres (20 feet). But the property company said it was only a temporary measure. Some 250 police were dispatched to the site.
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