News: Azerbaijan

We have started to collect the most important news related to Azerbaijan in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

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Azerbaijan: news

VIDEO: Fire engulfs Azerbaijan apartment block

Tuesday, May 19th 2015, 21:56
related places: Baku

Reports from Azerbaijan say 16 people have died in a fire at an apartment building in the capital, Baku.
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Azeri site 'erases' Armenia flag

Monday, May 11th 2015, 21:19
related countries: Armenia, Russia

Azerbaijan's Defence Ministry website digitally removed Armenia's flag in a photo of Russia's Victory Day parade in Red Square, Armenian reports say.
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VIDEO: Clearing mines from conflict region

Tuesday, April 7th 2015, 9:39
related countries: Armenia

For over two decades Armenia and Azerbaijan have been locked in conflict over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, which lies in Azerbaijan but has a majority population that is ethnic Armenian.
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VIDEO: Between war and peace 20 years on

Tuesday, April 7th 2015, 5:30
related countries: Armenia

Rayhan Demytrie reports from Nagorno-Karabakh, the region that is the subject of a 'frozen' conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
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Azerbaijan 'silencing critics' by detaining activists

Tuesday, February 17th 2015, 11:55

The activists in Azerbaijan being branded as traitors
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Azerbaijan raids US radio station

Friday, December 26th 2014, 18:09
related countries: United States
related places: Baku

Prosecutors in Azerbaijan raid the offices of a radio station in the capital, Baku, which is funded by the US government.
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Warning over downed Armenian 'copter

Thursday, November 13th 2014, 16:02
related countries: Armenia

Armenia denounces and threatens Azerbaijan over the shooting down of a helicopter in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
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Azerbaijan downs Armenian helicopter

Wednesday, November 12th 2014, 15:36
related countries: Armenia

Azerbaijan's defence ministry says its forces have shot down an Armenian military helicopter violating its airspace.
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Azerbaijan targets pro-democracy groups

Sunday, October 12th 2014, 23:26

Oil-rich Azerbaijan arrests critics while chairing Council of Europe
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Fourth activist held in Azerbaijan

Thursday, August 14th 2014, 9:45

A court in Azerbaijan upholds the pre-trial detention of a top human rights lawyer, after similar charges are brought against other activists.
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Fifteen die in Karabakh clashes

Saturday, August 2nd 2014, 22:29
related countries: Armenia

The worst clashes in years over the disputed Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan leave 15 dead in recent days.
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Azerbaijan to hold Formula 1 race

Friday, July 25th 2014, 10:21

Azerbaijan will host a Formula 1 Grand Prix in 2016, the former Soviet state has announced.
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