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19 September 2006 [11:27]
The Soldier of Kaspyisk Border Office of Russian Federal Security Service, who broke out of the military unit on September 10, attempted to flee to Azerbaijan through Akhti region.
19 September 2006 [11:26]
The level of the river Kyur in Azerbaijan has risen by 1,5 meters.
19 September 2006 [10:20]
Two-day workshop on child welfare and social protection organized by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in partnership with the Government of Azerbaijan starts on September 19.
19 September 2006 [09:45]
The crisis over Pope Benedict's remarks about Islam seems to play this pattern out on a global scale, Muslim and Christian analysts say.
18 September 2006 [22:22]
Krasnoyarsk authorities will help the parents of five boys, who went missing in Leninsky district 17 months ago, to organize the burial.
18 September 2006 [21:02]
Azad Rahimov, Azerbaijan's Minister of Youth and Sports met September 18 with Vessela Lecheva, head of the State Agency for Youth and Sport of Bulgaria.
18 September 2006 [20:55]
Vessela Lecheva, head of the State Agency for Youth and Sport of Bulgaria, Ivan Palchev, Ambassador of Bulgaria to Azerbaijan, Azad Rahimov, Azerbaijani Minister for Youth and Sports visited September 18 the Alley of Honors to revere memory of the national leader Heydar Aliyev and laid wreath on his grave.
18 September 2006 [20:36]
Azerbaijani delegation led by Minister of Youth and Sports Azad Rahimov will visit September 21-28 China to familiarize with the preparation for Olympic Games 2008 and negotiate with the heads of All China Youth Federation.
18 September 2006 [20:32]
Azerbaijani athletes completed their workouts in Moscow as preparation for the World Weightlifting Championship to be held from September 30 to October 7 in the Dominican Republic.
18 September 2006 [19:04]
Commander of Azeri peacemakers contingent in Iraq has been recalled ahead of schedule and substituted with another one.
18 September 2006 [18:41]
Negligence in a blood transfusion centre led to the death of four babies in Kazakhstan and the infection of at least 55 children and one adult with the HIV virus, the Health Ministry said on Monday.
18 September 2006 [18:36]
Azerbaijan has launched a new school year September 15th, just as did the Jewish Ohr Avner Chabad School. The 'first-bell' event took place in the school yard and involved more than 400 students, their teachers and parents as well as guests of honor.
18 September 2006 [18:21]
Ganja city residents are invited to festivity on September 18-19 on ocassion of city's 2500th jubilee.
18 September 2006 [18:17]
The clocks will be turned back an hour at the night of October 28 to 29 due to the end of DST.
18 September 2006 [16:50]
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a message to the international congress marking the centenary of the birth of late Azeri poet, Mohammad Hussein Shahriar, underlined that the history of Iran is not only distinguished by the braveries and epics, but is marked with scientific and cultural achievements.
18 September 2006 [16:31]
26 judges have appealed to Interior Ministry for service firearms and they were provided with, Abdulmajid Afandiyev.
18 September 2006 [15:31]
The next bird flu monitoring started in Azerbaijan due to the start of migration of wild birds, which may cause spread of avian flu virus.
18 September 2006 [14:12]
Azerbaijani Military Prosecutor's Office officer Fuzuli Mammadov, who has shot at his son and himself on family dispute, died in Central Clinic Hospital resuscitation department after 18-day coma.
18 September 2006 [13:18]
On Monday Azerbaijan's Minister for Labor and Social Protection of Population and Turkey's Minister for Labor and Social Security signed final protocol of 3rd meeting of Joint Standing Cooperation Commission.
18 September 2006 [13:05]
A Russian rocket carrying a U.S.-Russian crew, and the world's first female space tourist, lifted off Monday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, a mission control spokesman said.
18 September 2006 [12:44]
Office of Caucasian Muslims (OCM) headquartered in Baku demands Roman Pope Benedict XVI to apologize to Muslims for his insulting remarks against Islam and Prophet Muhammad.
18 September 2006 [12:40]
Warmer weather is forecast in Azerbaijan this week.
18 September 2006 [11:35]
"Araz Azerbaijan" newspaper's first edition was published in London.
18 September 2006 [11:12]
World weight-lifting championship for veteran athletes has wrapped up in Bordeaux, France.
18 September 2006 [11:05]
Azerbaijan national team has been named to compete in the world wrestling championship to be held between September 24 and October 1 in Guangzhou, China.
18 September 2006 [10:58]
The outbreak of a severe avian influenza pandemic could cost the world economy up to 2 trillion U.S. dollars, the World Bank warned Sunday.
18 September 2006 [09:04]
On September 10th, 2006, at AACC's call, the members of local Azerbaijani-American community have joined the parade "Celebrating the Ethnic and Cultural Diversity of Los Angeles County".
18 September 2006 [08:48]
Nearly 20 people have infected AIDS in the Azerbaijani region of Ali Bayramli.
17 September 2006 [18:49]
On September 15, International Religious Freedom Report 2006 was released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor of the U.S. Department of State.
17 September 2006 [02:19]
President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, MP, first lady Mrs. Mehriban Aliyeva visited Smamakhi province to familiarize with the boarding school overhauled at the expense of Foundation.
17 September 2006 [02:14]
The participants of the 1st International Russian Book Festival held in the frames of the Russian Year in Azerbaijan visited Baku Slavonic University on Saturday.
17 September 2006 [02:11]
Azerbaijan Composers' Union head, people's artist Vasif Adigozelov's funeral was held in Baku Music Academy.
17 September 2006 [02:09]
The second-year students of the private Independent Azerbaijan University (IAU) banned by the Education Ministry staged a protest action in front of the university main building for meeting the university administrator Abbas Mustafayev.
17 September 2006 [02:01]
The Conference of the Caucasus Intercultural Festival started in the Turkish region of Kars.
17 September 2006 [01:56]
Azerbaijan's Health Ministry, US Agency of International Development (USAID) and the International Medical Corps today organized a joint media workshop for journalists.
17 September 2006 [01:52]
Azerbaijan has medications for treatment of 500 bird-flu inflected patients.
16 September 2006 [14:37]
Azerbaijan and Russia set an example of good-neighborly relations, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said Friday as he addressed participants in the first International Festival of Russian-Language Books.
16 September 2006 [14:26]
A soldier of Azerbaijani Armed Forces died on Friday.
16 September 2006 [14:25]
Azerbaijan might face bird flu danger again in autumn and winter months. An individual must be very careful if he has fever over 38, coughs and feels flu symptoms in October-November, he should see a doctor.
16 September 2006 [14:24]
A 16-year-old boy committed suicide in Azerbaijani region of Terter. The boy burnt himself by pouring petrol outside the region court.
16 September 2006 [14:13]
Azerbaijani Islamic Party (AIP) demands Roman Catholic Pope Benedict XVI to apologize to Muslim world and the humanity and retract his statement linking Islam with violence.
16 September 2006 [14:09]
The first international Russian book festival is coming to an end in the Azerbaijanian capital.
16 September 2006 [10:08]
Turkey's Labor and Social Security Minister Murat Basesgioglu has today visited Heydar Aliyev Foundation.
16 September 2006 [09:16]
New school year starts in Azerbaijan, 127, 940 pupils go to school for the first time this year.
16 September 2006 [09:00]
The chief of the US Republican Institute representative office in Azerbaijan John Elvis's murder is much probably be uncovered, Baku Police Office chief, General Lieutenant Maharram Aliyev told journalists.
15 September 2006 [23:13]
Muslims deplored on Friday remarks on Islam by Pope Benedict and many of them said the Catholic leader should apologize in person to dispel the impression that he had joined a campaign against their religion.
15 September 2006 [20:25]
According to the agreement signed between Azerbaijan State Oil Academy (ASOA) and China Oil University, the arrival of 65 more Chinese young people are expected arrive late September in Baku to pursue their studies at the ASOA.
15 September 2006 [19:50]
A photo and painting exhibition featuring works by Iranian artists is currently underway in Baku, Azerbaijan, the Persian service of IRNA reported on Thursday.
15 September 2006 [19:47]
The Prosecutor's Office of Republic sent an appeal to the Grave Crimes Court for the continuation of the criminal case #637 launched on the murder of Monitor journal editor-in-chief Elmar Huseynov.
15 September 2006 [19:44]
The Conference of the Caucasus Intercultural Festival, which was expected to be held in the Turkish region of Kars today, has been postponed.
15 September 2006 [19:42]
Azerbaijan's Court of Grave Crimes today continued the trial of the gang led by Haji Mammadov, former high ranking official of the Interior Ministry Crime Investigation Department.
15 September 2006 [19:32]
Azerbaijan's Court of Grave Crimes today continued the trial of the gang led by Haji Mammadov, former high ranking official of the Interior Ministry Crime Investigation Department.
15 September 2006 [16:47]
Azerbaijani people's artist, head of the Azerbaijan Composers’ Union Vasif Adigozalov died at the age of 71 this morning.
15 September 2006 [15:30]
The ceremony of opening of the 1st International Russian Book Festival in the frame of the Russian Year in Azerbaijan held.
15 September 2006 [14:53]
The 88th anniversary of the liberation of the Azerbaijani capital, Baku from Russian and Armenian invasion by the help of the Turkish Caucasus Islamic Army has been marked.
15 September 2006 [14:47]
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev today attended the opening of a newly built school in Zabrat settlement on the occasion of the start of new school year.
15 September 2006 [14:43]
Two Azerbaijanis have been arrested in the Russian capital, Moscow for document forgery.
15 September 2006 [14:03]
"The offers on Haji Mammadov's transference from National Security Ministry's jail are purposeful. Suicide is not an exception in this case," Samad Aliyev, defense-lawyer for Haji Mammadov, former high ranking officer of the Azerbaijani Interior Ministry Crime Investigation Department Haji Mammadov told.
15 September 2006 [13:59]
Russian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Vasili Istratov commented on the Russian RTR TV channel's recent introduction of Nagorno Karabakh as an independent state.
15 September 2006 [10:07]
The cases of some high-ranking officials committed penitentiary crimes are being investigated.
15 September 2006 [09:18]
Authorities in Armenia have detained two suspects accused of involvement in the killing of a senior Armenian tax official, officials said Thursday.
14 September 2006 [21:56]
Switzerland national volleyball team is training in the Azerbaijan Volleyball Federation's gym together with senior coach Faig Garayev-led Azerbaijan women national team.
14 September 2006 [21:53]
International contests laureate Murad Huseynov has been invited to France.
14 September 2006 [21:49]
14 September 2006 [21:37]
More than a decade after they were displaced from homes in Nagorno Karabakh and Armenia, refugees finally swap tents for homes, only to encounter new problems.
14 September 2006 [21:28]
Azerbaijan's Education Minister held a press conference on Thursday.
14 September 2006 [21:25]
Azerbaijan's Court of Grave Crimes today continued the trial of the gang led by Haji Mammadov, former high ranking official of the Interior Ministry Crime Investigation Department.
14 September 2006 [21:05]
Azerbaijan's Court of Grave Crimes today continued the trial of the gang led by Haji Mammadov, former high ranking official of the Interior Ministry Crime Investigation Department.
14 September 2006 [16:33]
A world religion forum is being held in the Kazakh capital, Astana, to discuss tolerance and religious freedom, bringing together laymen, churchmen, and clerics from 45 national delegations.
14 September 2006 [16:29]
Relatives say Turkmen Service correspondent Ogulsapar Muradova has died in custody.
14 September 2006 [15:05]
The second festival of patriotic song "Huner" ("Courage"), organized within the framework of the Ministry of Youth and Sports will be held in November.
14 September 2006 [14:34]
Incessant rains beginning from September 12 increased water level to 80-90cm in country's rivers.
14 September 2006 [14:32]
Unstable weather will continue in Azerbaijan on weekend.
14 September 2006 [14:25]
Turkish Labor and Social Protection Minister Murat Basheskioglu visited tombs of Heydar Aliyev and Academic Zarifa Aliyeva in Honor Alley in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku.
14 September 2006 [14:08]
The third-year students of the private Independent Azerbaijan University will not attend lessons though lessons start in all higher schools tomorrow.
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