Azerbaijan had demanded the return of the four villages as a condition for a peace deal after decades of conflict. Armenia has agreed to return several villages to Azerbaijan in what both countries say is an important milestone as they edge towards a peace deal after fighting two wars since the collapse of the Soviet … Read more
Crocus City Hall in the Moscow region, the scene of a deadly shooting and fire claimed by Islamic State, is a plush concert venue where former US president Donald Trump once held a Miss Universe contest. It is a short walk from a Moscow Metro station and just next to Moscow city ring road, although … Read more
The inaugural edition of the FIFA Series, which will pit nations from different confederations against each other, is set to get underway in March. The tournament will provide nations that would otherwise not play each other normally and the opportunity to square up against sides from different continents, with the objective being to permit more … Read more
Turnout was 67.7 per cent, he added. Nagorno-Karabakh’s entire ethnic-Armenian population – more than 100,000 people – fled to Armenia after Baku’s takeover. File photo: AP Aliyev was heralded at home after his troops recaptured in September the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region from Armenian separatists who had controlled it for decades. But the oil-rich nation’s main … Read more
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Sunday that he has proposed the signing of a non-aggression pact to Azerbaijan, pending a comprehensive peace treaty between the arch-foe Caucasus neighbours. Yerevan and Baku have fought two wars – in 2020 and in the 1990s – over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, which Azerbaijan recaptured in a … Read more
Azerbaijan’s Minister for ecology and natural resources and formerly an executive at state oil company SOCAR Mukhtar Babayev (C) visits at the Norm cement plant in Baku, on February 23, 2023. Azerbaijan named on January 5, 2024, Mukhtar Babayev minister to preside over the November 2024 COP29 meeting, in Baku, on January 6, 2024. Tofik … Read more
Flags of Azerbaijan and Iran Tehran: Iran and Azerbaijan have agreed to open a new transit passage at their shared border in the near future, Iran’s official news agency IRNA reported Friday. In a phone call with Azerbaijani Deputy Prime Minister Shahin Mustafayev, Iranian Minister of Roads and Urban Development Mehrdad Bazrpash discussed the latest … Read more
Dubai: For years, climate change has been a factor – not the only one – in wars and conflicts. Now for the first time, it’s part of a peace deal. A long-time stand-off that had turned the choice for next year’s United Nations climate talks into a melodrama and mystery resolved as part of a … Read more
