Recent News Headlines : Baku - Azerbaijan

NORWEGIANA PIN-UP MAGNUS CARLSEN TO DEFEND WORLD CHESS CROWN IN LONDON


World Chess, the commercial arm of the game's governing body Fide, then turned its attention to London... READ MORE

29th November, 2017 591

HELLO KITTY AND PIKACHU RECRUITED TO BACK OSAKA'S BID TO HOST THE 2025 WORLD EXPO


Hello Kitty and Pikachu have been enlisted to give Osaka a boost in its efforts to host the 2025 World Exposition... READ MORE

29th November, 2017 72

HOW TURKEY, IRAN, RUSSIA AND INDIA ARE PLAYING THE NEW SILK ROADS


It connects Central Asia to Turkey with the Marmaray project in Istanbul and via the Caspian region... READ MORE

22nd November, 2017 3803

OSAKA GOV. ICHIRO MATSUI HEADS TO PARIS TO BOOST BID FOR 2025 WORLD EXPO


Yoshimura, who called the statue a form of Japan-bashing, has threatened to end the 60-year Osaka-San Francisco sister city relationship over the matter... READ MORE

14th November, 2017 0

SILK ROAD RAIL LINKS EUROPE AND CHINA


A new rail link connecting Europe to China has gone into service in Azerbaijan. Spanning more than 800 kilometers, the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars link bypasses Russia... READ MORE

2nd November, 2017 1896

JAPAN SUBMITS OSAKA'S BID TO HOST 2025 WORLD EXPO


Osaka's rivals are Paris, the Azerbaijani capital of Baku and the western Russia city of Yekaterinburg... READ MORE

26th September, 2017 2

Trending News Headlines : Baku

AZERBAIJAN LEADER ALIYEV APPOINTS WIFE TO TOP POST (PHOTOS)


France's President Nicolas Sarkozy and Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliev speak near first lady Mehriban Aliyeva in Baku October 7, 2011... READ MORE

21st February, 2017 8216

REPORT: SAUDI, UAE WEAPONS END UP WITH ARMED GROUPS


Therefore, the weapons transported on diplomatic flights end up in the hands of terrorist militants in Syria and Yemen that Saudi Arabia officially admits supporting... READ MORE

28th August, 2017 7400

AZERBAIJAN'S PRESIDENT HAS CHOSEN A NEW VP -- HIS WIFE


This year, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev offered his wife a special anniversary present -- he appointed her first vice president... READ MORE

23rd February, 2017 2698

WHY NOBODY TRUSTS THE WORLD'S BEST CURRENCY


The regulator in January removed regulations limiting lenders from buying and selling foreign currency outside a 4 percent band on either side of the official exchange rate... READ MORE

23rd March, 2017 2366

ST PETERSBURG ATTACK INCLUDED MANY STUDENTS AMONG VICTIMS


Mrs. Medyantseva was famous in St. Petersburg, Russia's second-largest city and imperial capital, for making dolls for the past 15 years... READ MORE

6th April, 2017 1985

ONE WORKER KILLED, 30 MISSING AFTER AZERI OIL RIG FIRE


As hopes of finding survivors faded, SOCAR said a severe storm was hampering rescue efforts at its platform in the Guneshli oil field... READ MORE

5th December, 2015 1471

AZERBAIJAN SAYS 12 OF ITS SOLDIERS KILLED IN FIGHTING


Since then, mountainous Nagorno-Karabakh -- officially part of Azerbaijan -- has been under the control of local ethnic Armenian forces and the Armenian military... READ MORE

2nd April, 2016 1385

'QUITE AN ENTANGLEMENT': DONALD TRUMP AND HIS POTENTIAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST


'Quite an entanglement' Donald Trump and his potential conflicts of interest... READ MORE

13th December, 2016 1270

EGYPT S GLOBAL TELECOM TO SELL DJEZZY MAJORITY STAKE FOR 2.6 BILLION


Across the line in Shushi, a city whose Azerbaijani residents were forced to flee during the war, an Armenian woman, Anaida Gabrielyan, said... READ MORE

1st February, 2015 818

DONALD TRUMP'S FAMILY SETTLE IN FOR THE GOOD TIMES


Washington The Trump brain and its fabulous functioning will fascinate researchers long after POTUS 45 leaves the Oval Office... READ MORE

26th November, 2016 687

ABDUCTED AZERI JOURNALIST'S WIFE REJECTS GEORGIAN OFFER


The abducted journalist Afgan Mukhtarli had been investigating Georgian business ties of Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev's family, claimed Mukhtarli's wife Leyla Mustafayeva... READ MORE

4th June, 2017 578

KAMIKAZE DRONES, RUSSIAN MISSILES JOLT OLDEST EX-SOVIET FEUD


Azerbaijan regained control of several hills lost to Armenians 23 years ago, before another Russian-engineered truce... READ MORE

14th November, 2016 574

NAGORNO-KARABAKH FIGHTING: AZERBAIJAN 'CALLS TRUCE'


Azerbaijan has announced a unilateral ceasefire in fighting with Armenian forces over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region... READ MORE

3rd April, 2016 549

AZERBAIJANI JOURNALIST DIES AFTER CRITICISING FOOTBALLER ON FACEBOOK


Aliyev had criticised local footballer Javid Huseynov on Facebook... READ MORE

11th August, 2015 465

THE SUN HITS BACK AT HYPOCRITE RUSSELL BRAND BY SAYING HE S NOT FUNNY... AND NO-ONE LIKES HIM


Earlier this year, Ms. Ismayilova said she was summoned for questioning and accused of leaking government secrets to two United States Senate staff members whom she had met in Baku... READ MORE

6th December, 2014 410

TRUMP TOWER IN AZERBAIJAN SHOWED CONFLICT RISK IN STRATEGIC AREA


A central issue in Azerbaijan was Trump's partners... READ MORE

16th December, 2016 401

AND SIX OTHER CLAIMS IN NEW DOCUMENTARY


Vladimir Putin regularly used violence against his divorced wife Lyudmila, a new German documentary about the Russian leader has claimed... READ MORE

20th February, 2015 386

TOP U.S. GENERAL TO MEET HIS RUSSIAN COUNTERPART ON THURSDAY


Under the Obama administration, the United States harshly criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin's seizure of the Crimean Peninsula and Russia's support for separatists in eastern Ukraine... READ MORE

16th February, 2017 331

PUTIN ENCOURAGES IRAN TO JOIN RUSSIA-LED EURASIAN ALLIANCE


In some branches of the economy Russian-Iranian cooperation has already become strategic, Putin noted... READ MORE

5th August, 2016 282

AZERBAIJAN MAKES A MOCKERY OF JUSTICE AS COUPLE SENTENCED IN POLITICAL SHOW TRIAL


I remember Leyla Yunus from numerous international conferences - a handsome, middle-aged woman with a proud bearing... READ MORE

14th August, 2015 248

AZERBAIJAN JOURNALIST KHADIJA ISMAYILOVA VOWS TO CONTINUE FIGHT FROM PRISON


Award-winning Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova delivered a defiant closing statement in Baku before her conviction, saying a lengthy jail term would not crush her spirit... READ MORE

2nd September, 2015 244

WHY WON'T RUSSIA BE AT EUROVISION 2017?


Politics spills over into popular culture, with Ukraine banning Russian Eurovision Song Contest entrant from attending Kyiv event... READ MORE

16th April, 2017 235

AZERBAIJAN SAYS TO STOP FIGHTING IN NAGORNO-KARABAKH, SEPARATISTS VOICE DOUBTS


The conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, a region home to around 150,000 people on the southern Armenian-Azeri border, broke out in the dying years of Soviet Union... READ MORE

4th April, 2016 203

AZERBAIJAN VOTE LENGTHENS ALIYEV'S TIME IN OFFICE, BOOSTS HIS POWERS


A majority of Azeri voters expressed their confidence in Azerbaijan's president, said Ali Akhmedov, secretary of the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan party... READ MORE

27th September, 2016 196

AZERBAIJAN-ARMENIA CONFLICT IS A REMINDER OF EUROPE'S INSTABILITY


The shelling was carried out from both Armenian territory and from Armenian-occupied Karabakh, the Azerbaijan defence ministry said... READ MORE

3rd April, 2016 175

FROM POLITICAL PRISONERS TO MEDIA BANS


Of the 35 heads of state attended the opening ceremony only four represented the European Union Bulgaria, Luxembourg, Monaco and San Marino... READ MORE

30th June, 2015 165

REPRESSIVE AZERBAIJAN REGIME HOSTS FIRST EUROPEAN GAMES


The Heydar Aliyev Arena is a venue for the European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan... READ MORE

12th June, 2015 162

AUSTRIAN ATHLETES MOWN DOWN BY BUS AT EUROPEAN GAMES


Footage has emerged of the horrific moment a bus driver ploughed into a group of teenage Austrian swimmers attending the European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan... READ MORE

12th June, 2015 134

ETHNIC CONFLICT BETWEEN ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN FLARES ANEW


Also on Monday, five Armenian volunteers were killed when their bus was hit by an Azerbaijani drone, a spokesman for the Karabakh military said... READ MORE

5th April, 2016 134

AZERBAIJAN SAYS 12 OF ITS SOLDIERS KILLED IN FIGHTING


BAKU, Azerbaijan -- Heavy fighting erupted Saturday between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces over the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh... READ MORE

2nd April, 2016 123


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