Month: May 2024

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has received a delegation consisting of Muslim …

President Ilham Aliyev receives delegation of religious leaders of OTS member states and observer countries [PHOTOS]  AzerNews.Az

VI World Forum on Intercultural Dialogue commenced in Baku, President Ilham Aliyev is attending opening of the …  APA

Blinken speaks to Azeri, Armenian leaders about peace talks  StreetInsider.com

According to recent updates, Azerbaijan is poised to generate a surplus in its current account by the end of 2024 if the nation’s current trends persist, Azernews reports.

Nineteen people have died after a slice of a mountainside highway collapsed in China’s Guangdong province, following days of heavy rain, the BBC reports.

Thirty others were taken to hospital after a 17.9m stretch of the Meilong expressway crumbled at 02:10 local time (19:10 BST) on Wednesday.

Authorities have yet to state the cause of the incident.

Images on state media showed a massive gash in the forested mountainside below the highway.

The 30 people in hospital are “not currently at risk”, state media report. The provincial government has dispatched 500 emergency response personnel to the scene.

Footage that appeared to have been taken shortly after the collapse showed flames and black smoke billowing from below the highway.

Another video carried by state media showed a smoking pile of charred cars partially covered in mud.

Координатор Госдепартамента США по санкциям Джим О’Брайен пишет, что после разгона мирной демонстрации против российского закона в Тбилиси у него «произошёл важный разговор с грузинскими депутатами». «У меня был важный разговор с грузинскими парламентариями о наших двусторонних отношениях, а также о нашей серьезной обеспокоенности по поводу инициированного Кремлем законопроекта о «внешней прозрачности» и его негативного […]

Lise Christoffersen (Norway, SOC) and Ian Liddell-Grainger (United Kingdom, EC/DA), Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) rapporteurs for the monitoring of Azerbaijan, and Hannah Bardell (United Kingdom, NR), PACE rapporteur on “Threats to life and safety of journalists and human rights defenders in Azerbaijan”, have expressed deep concern over the…