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17 July 2009 [17:22]
Doctors of Umberto Parini hospital of northern Italian city of Aosta operated Pope Benedict XVI on wrist. The pontiff slipped and fell in his chalet in the Alps, local media said with reference to sources in clinic.
17 July 2009 [17:16]
Representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) met soldiers of Armenian army Ohan Harutunyan and Gevorg Tomosyan in captivity in Azerbaijan on July 15, ICRC Spokeswoman in Baku Gulnaz Guliyeva said.
17 July 2009 [16:13]
“Armenian soldiers who voluntarily crossed border to Azerbaijan in an effort to go a third country understand very well that Azerbaijani authorities will not return them home,” Azerbaijani member of parliament and chairman of Great Establishment Party Fazil Mustafa said.
17 July 2009 [15:32]
A total of 220 new HIV cases have been confirmed in Azerbaijan in recent years, Health Ministry said.
17 July 2009 [14:45]
Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister and Rector of the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy Hafiz Pashayev has presented a new book entitled “Manifest of an Ambassador."
17 July 2009 [14:19]
Azerbaijan’s Movement of Intellectuals faces problem of premises again, AMI chairman Eldaniz Guliyev said.
17 July 2009 [13:53]
Representatives of the Azerbaijan Ombudsman Administration performed a monitoring at the detention facility at the Penal Service of the Justice Ministry today.
17 July 2009 [13:26]
Tourism & Rest, Russian bestseller magazine with 90,000 issues sold every week, calls into question the facts about Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity.
17 July 2009 [11:14]
Azerbaijanis can once again encounter problem of iodine shortage as 50 percent of salt on the local markets is not iodinated, Free Consumers Union said.
17 July 2009 [10:42]
17 July 2009 [09:34]
17 July 2009 [09:26]
First Lady of Azerbaijan Mehriban Aliyeva has been awarded medal by the Azerbaijan Association of Women Journalists.
17 July 2009 [08:38]
OSCE Secretary General Marc Perin de Brichambaut noted progress of Azerbaijan in the creation of a modern penal system during a meeting with the Minister of Justice and Chairman of the Judicial-Legal Council Fikrat Mammadov.
17 July 2009 [08:20]
The Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed the decree by approving financial monitoring service under the Azerbaijani Central Bank on July 16, AzerTaj state information agency said.
Upon the President's decree, the Central Bank must approve structure and staff schedule of financial monitoring service within 15 days and own powers to solve other issues proceeding from the decree
16 July 2009 [17:48]
16 July 2009 [16:52]
Soldier of the Armenian Armed Forces who crossed border to Azerbaijan in Gadabay region has been detained.
16 July 2009 [16:37]
Baku will host 7th international Mammadaliyev conference on petrochemistry on the 80th anniversary of Petrochemical Processes Institute at the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan (NASA) from September 29 to October 2, the NASA press service said.
16 July 2009 [15:38]
An aircraft heading from Tehran to Yerevan crashed near Qazvin, Iran on July 15.
16 July 2009 [15:12]
Recently Day.Az published an article which reported that juice the label of which depicts Azerbaijan without Nakhchivan is sold in Kopeika chain of shops in Russia.
16 July 2009 [12:18]
Specialists of the Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action (ANAMA) will hold one-month training for Georgian field engineers, the ANAMA press service said.
16 July 2009 [10:35]
Day.Az has received a letter from its reader which says that Russian largest food company 4SEZONA has labeled Azerbaijani dish bozbash as Armenian.
16 July 2009 [10:10]
16 July 2009 [09:48]
On July 15, the Armenian Armed Forces opened fire at Azerbaijani troops located in areas of the Gazakh region at 18:10-18:20. The shots were fired from Armenia's Noembryan region.
16 July 2009 [08:46]
President Ilham Aliyev has today sent a letter of condolence to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran.
15 July 2009 [16:28]
“Poverty rate has reduced 12 percent in Azerbaijan thanks to government’s successful policy,” Azerbaijani parliament’s social policy committee chair Hadi Rajabli said.
15 July 2009 [16:17]
The first republican forum of Azerbaijani women journalists was held in Baku today.
15 July 2009 [13:41]
15 July 2009 [11:26]
Another consignment of books, CD and DVD have been delivered to the Kazakh Ministry of Culture and Tourism to promote traditions of ancient governance, history and rich cultural heritage of Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani Culture and Tourism Ministry said in a statement.
15 July 2009 [10:07]
Dead bodies of the two who died as a result of helicopter crash over the Caspian Sea on July have been found.
15 July 2009 [09:56]
15 July 2009 [09:26]
Kazakh frontier guards detained 15 poachers from Azerbaijan with sturgeon of over a ton on the Caspian Sea, Kazakhstan Today reported.
15 July 2009 [09:13]
Canada aims to crack down on a flood of what it considers bogus refugee claims by imposing a travel visa requirement on people from Mexico and the Czech Republic, the Canadian government said on Monday.
15 July 2009 [08:55]
Icherisheher subway was closed in Baku today.
15 July 2009 [08:32]
Number of swine flu infections his 113,000.
14 July 2009 [17:55]
Mi-8 helicopter that crashed over the Caspian Sea on July 12 is being pulled out, Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) said.
14 July 2009 [15:12]
Georgia has been included in a swine flue spread area, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.
14 July 2009 [15:00]
“I have only principle related to Karabakh. It is a return of occupied lands of Azerbaijan."
14 July 2009 [14:44]
“The law on freedom of faith paves a way for future activity of the persons educated abroad under auspices of the Caucasian Muslims Clerical Office and Islamic University."
14 July 2009 [13:53]
This year the quota set for Azerbaijan for Hajj pilgrimage has been reduced from 6,000 to 2,000 people, Chairman of the Caucasian Muslims Office Sheikh-ul-Islam Haji Allahshukur Pashazade said at a news conference.
14 July 2009 [10:52]
A fire took place in Azneftyag oil refinery in Baku on July 14.
14 July 2009 [09:58]
13 July 2009 [16:33]
Helicopter owned by Azerbaijan Airlines crashed over the Azerbaijani section of the Caspian Sea on July 12.
13 July 2009 [16:01]
A delegation led by the Minister of Communications and Information Technologies Ali Abbasov is on visit to Switzerland.
13 July 2009 [15:45]
Skilled rapid response workers graduated from the National Security Ministry’s Heydar Aliyev Academy for the first time.
13 July 2009 [15:14]
“I’ve always followed the conflicts around Nagorno Karabakh problem with sorrow."
13 July 2009 [14:49]
Azerbaijan's population increased 969,000 compared to January 1999, the State Statistics Committee said.
13 July 2009 [09:47]
“It is difficult to say how much escalator replacement in Icherisheher subway will take,” Baku Metro Deputy Director Arif Rasulov said.
13 July 2009 [09:18]
13 July 2009 [08:48]
A documentary on Azerbaijan's National Leader Heydar Aliyev is being shot in Ukraine.
11 July 2009 [12:26]
Large-size state flags will be placed on a square in Kiev.
11 July 2009 [08:35]
10 July 2009 [15:14]
The Azerbaijan State Customs Committee (ASCC) installed remote temperature measuring devices in the country's airports to prevent swine flu.
10 July 2009 [13:55]
The first Friday prayers were held in Tezepir mosque in Baku after major overhaul.
10 July 2009 [12:55]
A book "Toward the Future", devoted to the 40th anniversary of Azerbaijan National leader Heydar Aliyev's accession to power was presented in Baku on July 10.
10 July 2009 [12:12]
Moscow militia released an Azerbaijani man captured by rackets for ransom.
10 July 2009 [10:26]
Icherisheher subway station will close for a time being in Baku.
10 July 2009 [10:10]
China has ordered mosques in its restive western city of Urumqi not to open for Friday prayers, BBC reported.
10 July 2009 [09:55]
10 July 2009 [08:35]
Chairman of Azerbaijan`s Supreme Court Ramiz Rzayev met program manager at the German society for technical co-operation (GTZ) Zeno Reichenbecher and newly appointed director of “Support of Legal and Judicial Reforms in Azerbaijan” project Anja Konigsmann on July 9.
09 July 2009 [16:25]
“The sanitary condition in sales outlets of doner is so bad that, if it keeps on like this, their sale will be banned.”
09 July 2009 [15:53]
National archive agencies of Azerbaijan and Georgia have signed a memorandum on cooperation, National Archive Agency Director Kamal Agayev said.
09 July 2009 [15:08]
Artificial islands are expected to be built near the costs of Baku on the Caspian Sea, the government sources said.
09 July 2009 [09:25]
Armenian armed forces has violated ceasefire again.
08 July 2009 [14:28]
The Youth Houses will be set in the regions of Azerbaijan to ensure efficient leisure of young people, Azerbaijani Youth and Sports Minister Azad Rahimov said during his visit to Yevlakh.
08 July 2009 [14:17]
A star-studded public tribute to Michael Jackson was held Tuesday in Los Angeles with thousands of randomly selected fans joining family and friends to bid farewell to the King of Pop, Xinhua reported.
08 July 2009 [11:53]
The Azerbaijani Interior Ministry Central Security Department provides security of nearly 8,500 private and public facilities.
08 July 2009 [10:24]
08 July 2009 [09:29]
The chairman of the Azerbaijani Parliamentary Committee does not believe in efficiency of legislation prohibiting smoking in public places and facilities.
08 July 2009 [08:38]
State Committee on State Commission on POWS, Hostages and Missing Persons says 30 Azerbaijani citizens are kept as captives in Azerbaijan’s occupied lands.
07 July 2009 [17:34]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has decreed to apply the law which calls for issuing medal for merit in diplomatic services.
07 July 2009 [14:35]
The Heydar Aliyev Foundation overhauled the St. Maria Church in Baku as part of the project "Azerbaijan is Address of Tolerance", implemented jointly with the Roman Catholic religious community, the Foundation told Trend News on July 7.
07 July 2009 [14:21]
Delegation of the Georgian Justice Ministry National Archive will pay a two-day visit to Baku on July 8.
07 July 2009 [13:24]
Young representatives of Dashnaksutyun political organization appealed to Yerevan mayor Gagik Baglaryan to remove outward advertisement about holiday vacation in Turkey.
07 July 2009 [12:37]
Leader of Azerbaijani community in Lithuania and member of National Minorities’ Council at the Lithuanian government Mahir Hamzayev says Lithuanians have sharply changed attitude to Armenia.
07 July 2009 [12:13]
Due to high temperature, Azerbaijani Defense Minister Safar Abiyev instructed to ban military exercises in hot hours of summer months.
Iran rejects planned transit corridor outlined in Azerbaijan-Armenia pact
India’s Russian oil lifeline under threat as Trump turns up heat
Serbia hails U.S.-brokered Azerbaijan–Armenia peace declaration
Witkoff said to meet Qatari PM to discuss Gaza peace
Azerbaijan marks 112th anniversary of people’s artist Kazim Kazimzade
Ministry of Emergency Situations continues fire safety awareness in liberated territories
Damc?l? Cave’s archaeological legacy showcased at ADA University’s Gazakh Center