http://www.kurdistanem.com/news/Interesting news from around the world.Copyright 2008 Kurdistanem.comSun, 16 Mar 2008 12:47:50 MDTEeraan News RSS version V.1.00kurdistanem@hotmail.com (Hiwa)kurdistanem@hotmail.com (Hiwa) http://www.kurdistanem.com/news/ind_news_index.php?direct=200803&link=20080316124750&type=htmhttp://www.kurdistanem.com/news/ind_news_index.php?direct=200803&link=20080316124750&type=htmTurkish troops have killed 11 fighters from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in clashes in the Turkish province of Sirnak, near the border with Iraq, according to the Turkish news agency Dogan. A government-paid village guard, who was assisting the Turkish soldiers, was injured in the fighting on Wednesday. Two of the PKK men were killed after an unmanned air vehicle detected a small group of fighters in the area. Click on the link to read more.Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:47:50 MDTKurdish News http://www.kurdistanem.com/news/ind_news_index.php?direct=200803&link=20080309014715&type=htmhttp://www.kurdistanem.com/news/ind_news_index.php?direct=200803&link=20080309014715&type=htmVenturing into the preserve of science fiction and stage magicians, scientists in the United States claim to have made extraordinary progress towards reading the brain. The researchers said they had been able to decode signals in a key part of the brain to identify images seen by a volunteer, according to their study, published by the British journal Nature. The tool used by the University of California at Berkeley neuroscientists is functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), a non-invasive scanner that detects minute flows of blood within the brain, thus highlighting which cerebral areas are triggered by light, sound and touch. Click on the link to read more.Sun, 09 Mar 2008 01:47:15 MSTScience http://www.kurdistanem.com/news/ind_news_index.php?direct=200803&link=20080304143139&type=htmhttp://www.kurdistanem.com/news/ind_news_index.php?direct=200803&link=20080304143139&type=htmThe images, taken Feb. 19, show clouds of dust and ice billowing away from a 2,300-foot slope near the planet's north pole. Capturing the pictures was a fortuitous accident, according to project scientist Candice Hansen, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter had been doing routine imaging of seasonal changes on the planet when it caught the avalanches in progress. Click on the link to read more.Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:31:39 MSTScience http://www.kurdistanem.com/news/ind_news_index.php?direct=200802&link=20080227132633&type=htmhttp://www.kurdistanem.com/news/ind_news_index.php?direct=200802&link=20080227132633&type=htm"Iraq's government should resort to the United Nation to complain against raid of Turkish troops into Iraq's territories," Nouri Talabani a member of Iraqi Kurdistan Parliament said Alalam News Network. He said that this operation has been planned a long time ago and some other reasons including internal differences between political parties involved it. Regarding Turkish Foreign Minister's statement, Ali Babacan, saying that the incursion aims PKK hideouts in Iraqi Kurdistan, Nouri Talabani said,"The main reason behind the Turkish offensive lays in Turkey's internal political crisis, its political motivation toward Kirkuk in northern Iraq and Turkey's fear of political developments in Iraqi Kurdistan. Click on the link to read more.Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:26:33 MSTKurdish News http://www.kurdistanem.com/news/ind_news_index.php?direct=200802&link=20080222130535&type=htmhttp://www.kurdistanem.com/news/ind_news_index.php?direct=200802&link=20080222130535&type=htmGoogle and the X Prize Foundation have announced that 10 teams will compete to put a privately-funded robotic spacecraft on the Moon. The Google Lunar X Prize, announced six months ago, offers $30 million worth of prizes for the first teams to create a machine that can travel at least 500 meters on the lunar surface and send video and other images and data back to Earth. Dr. Click on the link to read more.Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:05:35 MSTInternet And Technology http://www.kurdistanem.com/news/ind_news_index.php?direct=200802&link=20080221130312&type=htmhttp://www.kurdistanem.com/news/ind_news_index.php?direct=200802&link=20080221130312&type=htmARBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Turkish troops inside northern Iraq fought gunbattles with Iraqi Kurdish security forces on Thursday, a senior Iraqi Kurdish official said. Fouad Hussein, head of the office of the president of Iraq's Kurdistan region, said Turkish troops tried to move tanks from a base that has long been inside northern Iraq, but Kurdish Peshmerga forces tried to stop them. Click on the link to read more.Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:03:12 MSTKurdish News http://www.kurdistanem.com/news/ind_news_index.php?direct=200802&link=20080219130549&type=htmhttp://www.kurdistanem.com/news/ind_news_index.php?direct=200802&link=20080219130549&type=htmA ground offensive against Kurdish PKK hideouts in northern Iraq remains possible, Turkey's foreign minister has said. Ali Babacan said the timing of any operation would depend on weather conditions. Turkey has staged air attacks against suspected PKK camps in northern Iraq since December 16 after securing US promises to provide intelligence about Kurdish militants. Dogan news agency reported that 100 military vehicles, including armoured personnel carriers and ambulances, headed toward the Iraqi border from the town of Cizre on Tuesday. Click on the link to read more.Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:05:49 MSTKurdish News http://www.kurdistanem.com/news/ind_news_index.php?direct=200802&link=20080214131627&type=htmhttp://www.kurdistanem.com/news/ind_news_index.php?direct=200802&link=20080214131627&type=htmThe Pentagon plans to shoot down a disabled 5,000-pound spy satellite before it enters the atmosphere in early March, a senior Pentagon official said Thursday. The official said the operation was expected to be carried out from a Navy cruiser that would fire a missile specially fitted for the mission. Other details on the timing and location of the operation were not available, pending a Thursday afternoon briefing at the Defense Department. Click on the link to read more.Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:16:27 MSTWorld News http://www.kurdistanem.com/news/ind_news_index.php?direct=200802&link=20080210214040&type=htmhttp://www.kurdistanem.com/news/ind_news_index.php?direct=200802&link=20080210214040&type=htm Kurds hoist new Iraqi flag over their Parliament The Kurdistan National Assembly (KNA) has raised the new Iraqi flag for the first time on its building in a special ceremony. Regional Kurdish president Massaud Barzani and representative of Iraq's President Jalal Talabani along with regional Kurdish ministers and high-ranking officials attended the ceremony. On the occasion of the ceremony, KNA speaker Adnan al-Mufti said that "Raising the flag is a symbol of Kurdish people commitment to Iraq unity under democracy and federal system. Click on the link to read more.Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:40:40 MSTKurdish News http://www.kurdistanem.com/news/ind_news_index.php?direct=200802&link=20080210010931&type=htmhttp://www.kurdistanem.com/news/ind_news_index.php?direct=200802&link=20080210010931&type=htmTurkey's prime minister criticized European nations Saturday for providing sanctuary to groups that support the Kurdish Workers Party, which Turkey, the European Union and the United States have labeled a terrorist organization. VOA's Al Pessin reports from Munich, where Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke to the European Security Conference on Saturday. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks at Conference on Security Policy in Munich, 9 Feb 2008 Prime Minister Erdogan called on European countries to stop allowing affiliates of the group, known as the PKK, to raise money and promote their cause. Click on the link to read more.Sun, 10 Feb 2008 01:09:31 MSTKurdish News http://www.kurdistanem.com/news/ind_news_index.php?direct=200802&link=20080208023912&type=htmhttp://www.kurdistanem.com/news/ind_news_index.php?direct=200802&link=20080208023912&type=htmWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Talk about a knee-jerk reaction. Scientists in the United States and Canada said on Thursday they have developed a unique device that can be strapped on the knee that exploits the mechanics of human walking to generate a usable supply of electricity. It generates enough power to charge up 10 cell phones at once, the researchers report in the journal Science. Click on the link to read more.Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:39:12 MSTScience http://www.kurdistanem.com/news/ind_news_index.php?direct=200802&link=20080207024102&type=htmhttp://www.kurdistanem.com/news/ind_news_index.php?direct=200802&link=20080207024102&type=htmThe Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has received an expert independent legal opinion that confirms the KRG's constitutional authority to manage the Kurdistan Region's oil and gas resources. The KRG asked for a formal independent legal opinion from Professor James R. Crawford, a professor of international law, through Clifford Chance, a multinational legal firm. Professor Crawford concluded, "The Kurdistan Region Oil and Gas Law is consistent with the Constitution of Iraq". Click on the link to read more.Thu, 07 Feb 2008 02:41:02 MSTKurdish News http://www.kurdistanem.com/news/ind_news_index.php?direct=200802&link=20080206132515&type=htmhttp://www.kurdistanem.com/news/ind_news_index.php?direct=200802&link=20080206132515&type=htmThe protesters said they were acting as human shields to prevent assaults on bases in neighbouring Iraq Members of a pro-Kurdish political party have set up camp near Turkey's border with Iraq to protest against military raids on Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) fighters. About 150 activists from the Democratic Society party (DSP) arrived on Tuesday at Mount Cudi in Sirnak province to demand a peaceful solution to the conflict. Click on the link to read more.Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:25:15 MSTKurdish News http://www.kurdistanem.com/news/ind_news_index.php?direct=200802&link=20080206101835&type=htmhttp://www.kurdistanem.com/news/ind_news_index.php?direct=200802&link=20080206101835&type=htmFeb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- For the first time in four years, Google Inc. is feeling the heat of potential competition in the proposed combination of Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo! Inc. Microsoft's $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo may slam another door in Google's so far unsuccessful attempt to expand beyond the four-line text advertisements that run alongside Internet search results. That's because Microsoft and Yahoo would control more than a quarter of the market for animated ads and colorful display banners at the top of Web pages. Click on the link to read more.Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:18:35 MSTInternet and Technology http://www.kurdistanem.com/news/ind_news_index.php?direct=200802&link=20080205193105&type=htmhttp://www.kurdistanem.com/news/ind_news_index.php?direct=200802&link=20080205193105&type=htmNine people were killed in a German apartment building fire that led to desperate residents tossing young children out the windows to firefighters. Apartment residents throw a baby to firefighters in Ludwigshafen. The baby was rescued by the firemen. It's not known if the parents survived. (Rene Werse/AFP/Getty Images) Police found eight bodies inside the building in the city of Ludwigshafen, while one other person died later in hospital, police said Monday. Click on the link to read more.Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:31:05 MSTWorld News http://www.kurdistanem.com/news/ind_news_index.php?direct=200802&link=20080205131221&type=htmhttp://www.kurdistanem.com/news/ind_news_index.php?direct=200802&link=20080205131221&type=htmSupposedly, there's no place like home. But a new study suggests that earthlike planets orbit or are forming around many, if not most, nearby sunlike stars, providing places where life might have gained a foothold. That conclusion comes from an infrared survey of some 300 stars similar in mass to the sun and ranging in age from a youthful 3 million years to a middle-aged 3 billion. Click on the link to read more.Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:12:21 MSTScience http://www.kurdistanem.com/news/ind_news_index.php?direct=200802&link=20080205024930&type=htmhttp://www.kurdistanem.com/news/ind_news_index.php?direct=200802&link=20080205024930&type=htmThe Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by the criminal defamation lawsuit filed by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani on Tuesday against the editor-in-chief of the independent Kurdish weekly Hawlati for translating and publishing a report written by a US scholar. Tariq Fatih, publisher of Hawlati, told CPJ the newspaper was served papers on Tuesday notifying it of a criminal libel complaint against Editor-in-Chief Abid Aref for a critical report the paper translated and published on January 13. Click on the link to read more.Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:49:30 MSTKurdish News http://www.kurdistanem.com/news/ind_news_index.php?direct=200802&link=20080205024549&type=htmhttp://www.kurdistanem.com/news/ind_news_index.php?direct=200802&link=20080205024549&type=htmIran said on Sunday it had successfully launched its first rocket into space for research purposes, at a time of mounting tension with the West over its nuclear programme. The rocket reached an altitude of 150 kilometres (93 miles) but did not stay in orbit, said Ali Akbar Golrou, deputy head of Iran's aerospace research centre. He described the rocket as a "sounding rocket" -- one used for research purposes -- and said it returned to earth with the aid of a parachute, the Fars news agency reported. Click on the link to read more.Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:45:49 MSTIran News http://www.kurdistanem.com/news/ind_news_index.php?direct=200802&link=20080205024445&type=htmhttp://www.kurdistanem.com/news/ind_news_index.php?direct=200802&link=20080205024445&type=htmTurkish warplanes bombed three villages Monday in a mountainous area of northern Iraq near where the borders of Iraq, Iran and Turkey meet, according to a Turkish military statement. A spokesman for Iraqi Kurdish regional security forces told CNN there were no casualties since most residents moved out of the area in the wake of Turkish bombardments in recent months. Turkey has been targeting rebels from the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK -- which has been launching cross-border attacks against Turkey from Iraq. 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