Azerbaijan`s Prime Minister Artur Rasizade has today met participants of the international “Civil defence and preparation of civil societies for disaster risk prevention” conference ...

Participants of the international military surgical symposium have today visited Alley of Honors to put flowers at the tomb of Azerbaijan`s national leader, founder and architect of modern Azerbaijani state Heydar Aliyev. They also put flowers at the grave of prominent ophthalmologist, academician ...

Moscow will host a CIS Council of Tourism meeting on March 14, the CIS Executive Committee said. The meeting will review questions of implementation of a plan on the 20th anniversary of ...

Azerbaijani Embassy in South Africa and Pretoria-based “Azerbaijani Friends” Society have organized an exhibition dedicated to Azerbaijan and Novruz holiday at the University of Pretoria. According to Azerbaijani Embassy, photos reflecting Novruz traditions and ancient and ...

A meeting of the Agricultural Subcommittee of the Azerbaijani-Hungarian inter-governmental commission has been held in Baku. Azerbaijan was represented by Deputy Minister of Agriculture Bahram Aliyev and officials ...

The Azerbaijan women`s under-19 football team have defeated Russia 1-0 in the Kuban Spring international tournament in Sochi, Russia. The Azeri female footballers will next face Moldova on Friday ...

Azerbaijan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) will officially present its “Building Safe and Resilient Communities” project. The project receives technical support from the Austrian Red Cross (ARC) and financial support from the Austrian Development Agency ...

Japan and the United States held talks Monday on wide-ranging cooperation in space, including the satellite monitoring of ships, a joint statement said. The collaboration is apparently aimed at countering China`s growing assertiveness at sea ...

A book in English called ‘The EU Eastern Partnership: Common framework or Wider Opportunity?’ has been published in Italy as a result of cooperation of the Center of Strategic Studies of Azerbaijan and the International Political Studies Institute of Italy. The book is analyzing the framework of Eastern Partnership and role of Azerbaijan ...

Rector of the Baku branch of the Moscow Stat University was awarded the Order of Merit in Gold of the European economic Chamber of Trade, Commerce and Industry (EEIG) in a solemn ceremony held on Wednesday. Opening the ceremony, senior lecturer Andrey Krupchanov told of the activity of the ...

Wrestling will be included in the inaugural European Games in Azerbaijan, another step in the sport`s bid to win back its place in the Olympics. Nenad Lalovic, acting president of governing body FILA, signed a “letter of understanding” Tuesday with organizers of the 2015 Games in Baku ...

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President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has today received the participants of the international conference on ‘Civil Defense and preparation of civil societies for disaster risk prevention’, which was organized by the Ministry of Emergency ...

A Brazilian doctor faces charges of fraud after being caught on camera using silicone fingers to sign in for work for absent colleagues, police say. Thaune Nunes Ferreira, 29, was arrested on Sunday for using prosthetic fingers to fool the biometric employee attendance device used at the hospital where she works near Sao ...

In a reported world first, Japan on Tuesday extracted natural gas from methane hydrate, considered a next-generation energy source, in the Pacific seabed off Aichi Prefecture, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said ...

We're quick to blame modern diets -- and heavy drinking, and smoking, and lack of exercise -- for atherosclerosis, the hardening of the arteries that can cause heart attack and stroke. And there's no reason not to, because it's caused by a buildup of fat and cholesterol in the walls of our arteries. We're also quick to think of the ...

The Azerbaijani culture was represented in the international charity festival International Day 2013 here. The festival organized by the American College in Cairo was attended by representatives from over 25 countries including Egypt, Turkey, Russia, USA, UK, Italy, countries of Central Europe and Latin America ...

President of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies Valeriu Zgonea will today embark on official visit to Azerbaijan to discuss prospects for interparliamentary relations, as well as development of bilateral ties between the two countries in various fields ...

Moviegoers aren`t the only ones wearing 3D glasses nowadays — doctors could benefit from them, too, a new study suggests. In the past, doctors have been skeptical of using 3D technology in their work, preferring to rely on their own experience. But that may change, thanks to improved 3D glasses ...

An opening ceremony of the third international mugham festival here saw the concert program Journey into World of Seven Mughams. The festival is organized by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, Ministry of Culture and Tourism and Azerbaijan`s Union of Composers ...

The standoff between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Armenian-occupied Nagorno-Karabakh region remains a potential flashpoint, says Director of the US National Intelligence James Clapper`s Worldwide Threat Assessment Statement that submitted to the Congress ...

SOCAR is developing a program on increasing of oil extraction in the country and its implementation will be started in the early April, said SOCAR`s President Rovnag Abdullayev. Abdullayev stressed that as a result of this project, it would be possible to increase ...

Azerbaijan`s Gabala under-15 football team have defeated Ukrainian Sevastopol 2-1 in an international tournament in Tiraspol, Moldova. Gabala`s goals came from Kanan Rafiyev and Elvin Damirov ...

Mexican lawmakers announced legislation yesterday that threatens to rein in the country`s telecommunications monopolies, raising the possibility of a Ma Bell-style breakup for Carlos Slim`s dominant America Movil (AMXL) SAB. The bill, which will be presented in Mexico`s congress, would create an agency ...