France will close its embassies and schools in 20 countries on Friday in fear of a hostile reaction to a magazine's publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH), the foreign ministry said on Wednesday.
Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius announced earlier that he had ordered special security measures in all the countries where this could pose a problem, according to AFP.
Fabius admitted he was concerned by the potential for backlash to Charlie Hebdo's weekly printing of a satirical series of cartoons featuring the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH), and against a background of violent protests in the Muslim world over an anti-Islam film. -0-
Politics
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On 26 July "Platform III of the Republic" made a statement which drew attention to the unlawful seizure of electronic devices of underage children of the arrested head of this structure Akif Gurbanov.
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From 19 to 26 July, 24 automatic rifles, 1 machine gun, 9 rifles, 28 grenades, 441 shells, 3118 cartridges of different calibre and other ammunition were found in Khankendi, the Azerbaijani Interior Ministry reported. During the mentioned period, the police found 1 machine gun, 50 grenades, 7 fuses, 3 shells and 320 cartridges of different calibre in Shusha.
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President Ilham Aliyev has approved by decree the Azerbaijan-Kazakh intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in military intelligence defense sector. The document was signed in Baku on 7 June 2024.
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At the trial of the opposition politician Tofig Yagublu, the statement of Elnur Vaqifoglu, another accused, was heard at the Baku Serious Crimes Court.
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