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  • Indian women strike gold at Asia 3x3 basketball meet

    Indian women beat Mongolia 21-14 to win the gold medal at the inaugural FIBA Asia 3x3 basketball event here. The team with Geethu Anna Jose at the vanguard of their challenge won the three play-off games without breaking much sweat Thursday. India won all their three games reaching the 21-point mark with ample time left on the clock in each of their games. "We achieved what we set out for," ...

  • Representatives of all religions in Azerbaijan live as a family - president

    1news.az reports with reference to the official website for the President of Azerbaijan that the mosque opening ceremony was attended by President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev. The muftis of the Caucasian peoples, ambassadors of Muslim countries in Azerbaijan, public representatives and religious figures warmly welcomed the head of state. President Ilham Aliyev met the guests. Chairman of ...

  • VTB Group considers Azerbaijan priority region

    Azerbaijan is one of the priority regions for the VTB Group, director of the department of subsidiaries of Bank VTB OJSC Mikhail Yakunin said on Friday at the opening ceremony of the new head office of VTB Bank (Azerbaijan) in Baku. Yakunin said opening the new office marks a new stage in the development of VTB Bank (Azerbaijan). Speaking at the ceremony, Chairman of the Board of VTB Bank ...

  • National Briefing | Northwest Idaho Uzbek Man Pleads Not Guilty to Charges of Supporting Terrorism

    An Uzbek man pleaded not guilty on Friday to three federal terrorism charges that accuse him of providing support to a terrorist group in Uzbekistan. Wearing slippers and yellow and white striped prison garb, the defendant, Fazliddin Kurbanov, entered the federal courtroom in Boise in shackles and spoke primarily through a Russian interpreter. Federal agents arrested Mr Kurbanov, 30, a truck ...

  • Idaho neighbors surprised by Uzbek refugees arrest allegations

    BOISE, Idaho - The Uzbek national and Boise resident accused of training people to carry out terrorist attacks is a refugee who resettled in Boise in 2009. Jan Reeves, director of the Idaho Office for Refugees, confirmed Friday that Fazliddin Kurbanov was admitted to the U.S. as a refugee in August 2009 and resettled in Boise. Reeves would not say whether Kurbanov came to the U.S. with family ...


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The Way of the Gun

From its earliest inception, the movies have engaged in an ongoing love affair with the criminal. The most popular genres--the Western, the gangster flick, film noir--all revolved around criminals as the central characters. Yet, while engaging in this affair, movies often feel moved to romanticize the criminal in order to lessen the impact of the complicit audience falling in love with wrong doer ... ...

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  • Russian cargo craft uses thrusters to adjust orbit of space station

    A Russian Progress M-19M resupply spacecraft attached to the International Space Station was used to adjust the station's orbit Friday, Russian officials say. The space freighter's engines were run for slightly more than 15 minutes to raise the ISS's orbit by about 1.6 miles, a spokesman for the Russian space agency Roscosmos said. The station's orbit is now 259 miles above ...

  • Turkmenistan goes green and is happy

    president Saparmurat Niyazov initiated the project under the name ''Green Belt''. Each Turkmen ministry is responsible for planting its own trees. However, as past initiatives have shown, not all of the trees survive, either because of the harsh weather conditions or the lack of care, such as regular watering. According to Mustafa Bilgin, the owner of a Turkish company ...

  • Azkals test Kyrgyzstan booters in friendly

    THE PHILIPPINES will face fellow AFC Challenge Cup final round qualifier Kyrgyzstan in an international friendly in Bishkek on June 8. Philippine Football Federation general secretary Ed Gastanes confirmed the development to the Inquirer, even as the PFF is also close to sealing an agreement to play against Tajikistan on June 11. Gastanes said the match with Tajikistan is also ideal as the ...

  • Azerbaijan - Free expression advocates protest Azerbaijans legislative amendments

    The International Partnership Group for Azerbaijan (IPGA) strongly condemns a series of repressive legislative amendments that Azerbaijan's National Assembly (Milli Majlis) adopted on 14 May 2013. The amendments were submitted by the prosecutor-general's office to a parliamentary commission two weeks before and are being enacted in the run-up to October's Presidential election.The ...

  • Fazliddin Kurbanov Idaho man in court for Uzbekistan terrorism plot

    FBI investigators and Boise police officers conduct an investigation at a Boise, Idaho, apartment complex connected to the arrest of Fazliddin Kurbanov, an Uzbekistan ...

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