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Turkey is set to receive a new refinery after Azerbaijan's Socar and a Spanish-led group ink a multibillion-dollar deal to build the facility on Izmir's Petkim peninsula on the Aegean coastSocar Turkey and a consortium led by Spain's Tecnicas Reunidas signed an... The first thing you need to do is choose a news reader, if you already don't have ... (more)

Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev has ordered an inquiry into why his country gave Russia "nul points" at Saturday's Eurovision Song Contest.

The visit to Israel in April 2013 by Azeri Foreign Minister Elmar Mamadyarov, which involved meetings with the president, prime minister, and security officials including the defense minister, again intensified Tehran's concerns over the growing ties between Jerusalem and Baku, both of which view Iran as a threat, albeit to different extents.

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras vowed to return to Azerbaijan after holding talks in Baku on Sunday with the countryA's president Ilham Aliyev.

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has today met Prime Minister of Greece Antonis Samaras who is in Baku for a working visit.

Bob Dylan's cannabis use and anti-war stance mean he's been deemed 'unworthy' of France's highest honour.

Azerbaijani analyst: Allahshukur Pashazadeh's Iran visit will be unproductive http://www.panorama.am/en/politics/2013/05/18/v-gulizade/ 15:55 18/05/2013 » ANALYSIS Allahshukur Pashazadeh's Iran visit will be unproductive, Azerbaijani political analyst Vafa Guluzade told Azadliq newspaper in an interview, according to haqyolu.com Persian ... (more)

Azerbaijan, Baku, May 17 / Trend / President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has today opened the Shamakhi Juma Mosque after major overhaul.

The 17-year contract on the transit of Azerbaijani oil through Russian territory has been ceased.

Former Croatian President Stjepan Mesic and Deputy Prime Minister Milanka Opacic will visit Baku to attend the 2nd World Forum on Intercultural Dialogue.

The 3rd International Congress "Baku Heart Days" organized by the Azerbaijan Society for Cardiovascular Surgery has today started in Azerbaijan`s capital.

Azerbaijan`s President Ilham Aliyev has inspected the Shamakhi Astrophysical Observatory after major overhaul.

Recent amendments to Azerbaijani legislation violate the government's international commitments and would limit free expression.

Human rights groups criticised Azerbaijan on Wednesday for legislation that will make defamation over the Internet a criminal offence punishable by imprisonment ahead of a presidential election in the tightly controlled nation.

Armenian armed forces continue setting fire to the occupied territories of Azerbaijan.

Azerbaijan, Baku, May 15 / Trend / Azerbaijan expects a decision on the Southern Gas Corridor in the near future, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said in a statement made at the joint press conference with Austrian President Heinz Fischer in Vienna.

Azerbaijan, Baku, May 15 / Trend / President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev on Tuesday met with Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization , Lassina Zerbo in Vienna.

Azerbaijan, Baku, May 15 / Trend / President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev on Tuesday met Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Yukiya Amano in Vienna.

Azerbaijani parliament's approval to extend criminal defamation laws to include Internet speech is a serious setback for press freedom in a country that severely curtails free expression already, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

US website "Prweb.com" has issued an article titled "UAE Author Completes Authorized Biography on Azerbaijan President". The author of the book is Graeme Wilson, a 42-year-old British author and documentarian based in London and Dubai.