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Inaugural European Games approved for Baku in 2015
The inaugural European Games were approved Saturday by continental Olympic committees and assigned to Baku in June 2015. The secret ballot of European ...
EU officials: We were hacked at Web conference
A European official says her staff members were hacked when they joined her for a conference on Internet security in Azerbaijan. European Commission ...
Azerbaijan to level output at key oil field
Azerbaijan's state oil company says it has agreed with British oil giant BP on a plan to stabilize output at a key oil field in the Caspian Sea.
90 dead in Syrian regime attacks on rebel areas
The Syrian military unleashed heavy airstrikes and artillery bombardments targeting rebel strongholds in the north on Tuesday, killing at least 90 ...
Shot Pakistani girl responding well to treatment
A teenage Pakistani girl shot in the head by the Taliban for promoting girls' education has responded well to treatment and impressed doctors with her ...
Azerbaijan seeks more scrutiny over BP-led project
Azerbaijan's top energy official urged further scrutiny of the international consortium developing the Caspian Sea nation's main oil field amid ...
Azerbaijan's leader assails BP over falling output
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliev has criticized a consortium led by BP PLC for a slump in production at the Caspian Sea nation's main oil field.
Azerbaijan defends Mexico monument to ex-leader
The Caucasus republic of Azerbaijan is defending a multimillion-dollar renovation of Mexican parks and a monument to late president Geidar Aliyev that ...
Azerbaijani ax killer's pardon raises war fears
Shortly before dawn, an Azerbaijani on an English course in Hungary crept into the room of a fellow student from arch-enemy Armenia. In a frenzy of ...
Azerbaijan's president defends killer's pardon
Azerbaijan's president on Friday vehemently defended his pardon of a military officer who murdered an Armenian officer with an ax, a decision that has ...
Azerbaijan pardons, frees convicted killer
Armenia broke off diplomatic ties with Hungary after an Azerbaijani military officer sentenced to life in prison here for killing an Armenian officer ...
Residents describe terror of Iran quake, 250 die
Residents of the zone in northwestern Iran hit by powerful twin earthquakes described moments of terror and panic with birds crowing loudly in warning ...
Azerbaijan editor accused of spying for Iran
Azerbaijan has charged the editor of a Talysh ethnic minority newspaper with spying for neighboring Iran and inciting public unrest, officials said ...
Iran arrests 2 Azerbaijan nationals as spies
Iran's state TV is reporting officials have interrogated two Azerbaijan citizens on charges of spying. The Tuesday report by the English language ...
Officials: Iranians targeted Israeli, US interests
Two Iranians who led authorities to a cache of explosives after their arrest planned to attack Israeli, U.S., British or Saudi targets inside Kenya, ...
Turkey, Azerbaijan sign gas pipeline deal
Turkey and Azerbaijan have signed an agreement to build a pipeline to transport Azeri gas to Europe through Turkey. Turkish Prime Minister Recep ...
Azerbaijan pardons prisoners jailed after protests
The president of Azerbaijan has pardoned 66 convicts, including nine youth activists arrested during a wave of anti-government protests last year ...