An explosion hit a railway in Russia's Caucasian region of Dagestan early Monday, the Interfax news agency reported quoting police officials. "A railway ...
SINGAPORE (Reuters Life!) - Looking to tread terrain still untouched by foreign stag expeditions? Want to unwind in luxury or drink up the ...
BAKU (Reuters) - An Azeri man said Tuesday he had been asked by the authorities to explain why he voted for the entry of arch-rival Armenia in this year's Eurovision Song Contest. Forty-three Azeris voted for the song "Jan Jan" by Armenian ...
BAKU (Reuters) - European Union officials visiting Azerbaijan protested on Monday at the arrest of two opposition bloggers, a case seized on by rights groups concerned over shrinking freedoms in the oil-producing state. "I have informed (President) Ilham Aliyev about our concern ...
VIENNA (Reuters) - Hooliganism charges against two opposition bloggers in Azerbaijan are unfounded and the case is fresh proof that freedom of speech is dying in the central Asian state, an official from Europe's main rights watchdog said on Thursday. Adnan Hajizade, ...
Azerbaijan authorities lash out at foreign embassies for protests over bloggers' arrest Azerbaijani authorities are lashing out at the German and U.S. embassies for their public protests over the arrest of two bloggers. Last week's Baku court decision ordering two months of ...
Two bloggers in Azerbaijan have been ordered detained for two months pending trial on hooliganism charges, media rights group Reporters Without Borders said Saturday. "Reporters Without Borders condemns yesterday's decision by judge Rauf Ahmadov of the Sabail district court in Baku to ...
Nearly 20 years after it broke from the atheist Soviet Union, Azerbaijan is seeing a deep religious revival, its ancient capital Baku dotted with new mosques and the Muslim call to prayer echoing through city streets. Designated by the Organisation of the ...
UNESCO has put two natural sites, a coral reef in Belize and a national park in Colombia, on its list of endangered world heritage, a statement issued Saturday said. The UN cultural agency's World Heritage Committee meeting in Seville, Spain, said human ...
Israeli President Shimon Peres met Azerbaijan's president in Baku on Sunday at the start of a landmark visit to the region that will also include Kazakhstan. Peres met Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and other officials for talks on "bilateral relations as well ...
A medical team carries a badly wounded man on a stretcher following a gun attack at the Azerbaijani State Oil Academy in Baku, Azerbaijan, 30 April 2009. Thirteen people were killed and ten were injured in the incident. Local reports said one ...
Map locates Baku, Azerbaijan, where at least seven students were killed in a shooting at a college1c x 1 7/8 inches; 46.5 mm x 47 mm; Copyright 2009 AP News
