• Central Asia

    Armenia Deplores Russian Arms Selling to Azerbaijan

    Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan has criticized the arms selling of Russia to Azerbaijan and he said this creates conflict in the region. He said, “Russia is our strategic ally and we have a strategic agreement with Russia. With all that bearing in mind, we openly say we are against Russia’s…

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  • Pope Francis to Visit Caucasus

    Pope Francis will visit the three countries of Caucasus in coming months, the Vatican Press office announced on April 9. The first visit scheduled for Armenia between June 24-26 and for Georgia and Azerbaijan in late September. “Accepting the invitations from His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of…

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  • Azerbaijani, Russian, Iranian FMs Hold Meeting in Baku

    A trilateral meeting of Azerbaijani, Russian and Iranian foreign ministers Elmar Mammadyarov, Sergey Lavrov and Mohammad Javad Zarif took place in Baku on April 7. The officials discussed bilateral and multilateral relations, energy and transport projects and regional security issues. Russian Foreign Minister expressed his satisfaction with the ceasefire and…

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  • Kazakhstan Proposes to Change the EEU Meeting from Yerevan to Moscow

    The prime-ministerial summit of Eurasian Economic Union will be held in Moscow instead of Yerevan, on April 13. According to RFERL report, Kazakhstan offered to change the place for the meeting. Karim Masimov, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan declared not to attend the meeting in Yerevan and proposed another place. His…

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  • Politics

    Malaysia’s commitment to support nuclear safety globally

    Malaysia has gained much exposure from the Nuclear Security Summit (NSS), which was held in the United States of America (USA) recently even though the country has not much expertise and are not active in the field. The presence of the Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia Ahmad Zahid Hamidi at…

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  • Russia and China Increase Military Spending

    Stockholm International Peace Research Institution (SIPRI) published a report about increased military expenditure in 2015. The world’s total military expenditure was $1.7 trillion in 2015. It increased 1 percent from the previous year. The five biggest spenders are the US, China, Saudi Arabia, Russia and the UK. According to the…

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  • Turkish Police Chief drives stolen car, goes undetected

      Mahmut Karaaslan, the police chief of the Provincial Security Directorate of Ankara, exposed the security weakness of the Turkish capital. He tried an extraordinary tactic to control the works of policemen. He drove a stolen car for three days in all streets of Ankara, but he couldn’t be detected…

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  • Kazakhstan Looks for Visa-Free Travel to EU

    Nursultan Nazarbayev, the president of Kazakhstan paid a working visit to Brussels on March 30. Meetings were held with Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission and Donald Tusk, president of the European Council. Kazakh president urged the EU for the visa-free regime for the citizens of Kazakhstan to visit…

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  • What Really Happened in Nagorno Karabakh?

    The Nagorno Karabakh conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia started in 1988 with the territorial claims of Armenians over the land of Azerbaijan. Until the year of 1994 when ceasefire treaty was signed, Armenian troops occupied 20% of Azerbaijani territories including Nagorno Karabakh region and seven more districts. On April 2,…

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  • South East Asia

    Youth lifestyles shape the “halal industry”

    MALAYSIA is doing well in the halal industry as there are more than 5,500 halal certified companies with 92% are small medium entrepreneurs, thus showing the robustness of this sector. In Arabic, halal is defined as permissable to use or engage according to Islamic law. In 2011, the industry created…

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