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26 January 2007 [16:43]
Michel Platini was voted in as UEFA's new president on Friday, ending Lennart Johansson's 17-year reign in European soccer's top job by just four votes.
26 January 2007 [16:28]
The analysis of Salyan resident, 14 year-old Alesker Askerov being cured in Scientific Institute of Resperatory Diseases will be sent to World Health Organization reference laboratory.
26 January 2007 [16:14]
Azerbaijani and Armenian Football Federations' officials held a meeting in Dusseldorf, Germany.
26 January 2007 [16:11]
The weather will change at night of January 28 to 29 in northern and western regions of Azerbaijan after abnormal weather.
26 January 2007 [13:12]
Milli Majlis will consider the draft law on Education on February 6.
26 January 2007 [11:10]
Young children work illegally to support their impoverished families - with the government seemingly turning a blind eye.
26 January 2007 [01:27]
Azerbaijan Labor and Social Protection Ministry has worked out Social Rehabilitation Program for families in low incomes.
26 January 2007 [01:25]
Scientific conference devoted to famous Azerbaijani poet, thinker and philosopher Nizami Ganjavi's life and literary activity was held in Mark Bloch University in Strasbourg, France.
26 January 2007 [01:22]
Social Union for Women Problems "Clean World" made a statement on increase of HIV/AIDS in Azerbaijan.
26 January 2007 [01:15]
On Jan. 1, 2007, the Azerbaijani-language services of both the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (which is known locally as Radio Azadliq) launched a new 24/7 FM broadcast stream to the Azerbaijani capital of Baku. The new station, known as Baku 101.7 FM, is heard in Baku and its suburbs, which comprise 40% of Azerbaijan's total population.
26 January 2007 [00:58]
The opening of the new detention ward constructed in Nakhchivan will be held in summer.
26 January 2007 [00:54]
United Nations Department of Public Information in Baku organized observance of the International Day for the Commemoration of the Victims of Holocaust.
26 January 2007 [00:52]
Bill on Education will be discussed in the Ministry of Education, State Student Admission Commission and in all relevant structures, parliamentarian Bahar Muradova said.
26 January 2007 [00:48]
The amount allocated for education sector increased by 33% in 2006 and by 47% in 2007. Investments in the sphere of education were AZN48 million last year, it will be AZN82 million in 2007, Education Minister Misir Mardanov said at the board meeting.
26 January 2007 [00:46]
Agasi Mammadov, returning to the boxing ring after 18 months, stopped fighting in Azerbaijani championship held in Baku Sport Palace.
26 January 2007 [00:41]
The delegation led by Zahid Akman, head of Turkey's Supreme Board of Radio and Television will visit Azerbaijan in spring.
26 January 2007 [00:36]
Azerbaijani champion Baku FC stopped fighting in CIS and Baltic football championship at quaterfinal.
26 January 2007 [00:27]
"Quota should be increased for Azerbaijani students in Russia's higher educational institutions," said Russian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Vasili Istratov.
25 January 2007 [21:04]
Health authorities in Azerbaijan are treating a 14-year-old boy for suspected bird flu, the Health Ministry said on Thursday.
25 January 2007 [18:37]
Baku-Tbilisi flight was delayed on Thursday at 07.50, because of found gun on one of the passengers of the plane.
25 January 2007 [16:15]
"The information about a patient infected with bird flu and brought to our institute from Salyan and the death of that man is uncorrect," said head physician of the Scientific Institute of Lungs Diseases Khayyam Mammadov.
25 January 2007 [15:07]
Interior Ministry State Traffic Police Department called on drivers and passengers to fasten seat belts.
25 January 2007 [15:06]
Unusual heat is observed in the territory of Azerbaijan.
25 January 2007 [14:06]
3197 car accidents were recorded in the republic last year, Interior Ministry State Traffic Police Department of Baku informs.
25 January 2007 [13:45]
Last year, nearly 30 traffic policemen were dismissed because of irregularities.
25 January 2007 [12:45]
On Wednesday the officials of International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) Armenian Office visited captured Azerbaijani soldier Samir Mammadov.
25 January 2007 [00:52]
Fire occurred in Sabunchu district on Tuesday night.
25 January 2007 [00:50]
Azerbaijan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) received 218 appeals on searching documents lost during conflict and family members.
25 January 2007 [00:49]
70 car accidents happened in Baku on January 1-20, as a result of which 24 died and 89 were injured.
25 January 2007 [00:16]
Neftchi football club appealed to Youths and Sport Ministry on leasing of Tofig Behramov stadium.
24 January 2007 [21:52]
Turkish prosecutors on Wednesday charged five people, including a teenaged gunman, in the killing of ethnic Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, prosecutor Aykut Cengiz Engin said.
24 January 2007 [21:13]
Partnership for a better life.
24 January 2007 [18:37]
The criminal case launched on the death of the former chief of Development of Entrepreneurship Department of Economic Development Ministry Alihuseyn Shaliyev on article 125 of the Criminal Code (drive to suicide) is over.
24 January 2007 [14:57]
"As only one organization participated in the tender announced on ANS TV and ANS ChM radio, it is supposed that the results of the tender will be abolished and the tender will be announced again," said National Radio and Television Council chief Nushiravan Maharramli.
24 January 2007 [12:22]
Journalists striving to expose the misuse of government power are increasingly living under the threat of politically motivated arrests, physical assault and even death, Amnesty International said on Tuesday.
24 January 2007 [01:12]
A statement presented as an announcement of the secret services of Armenia was placed on the online site of the Azerbaijan Public TV last weekend.
24 January 2007 [00:46]
"Azerbaijan-Scandinavian Cooperation" Public Union operating in Azerbaijan was registered in the Ministry of Justice.
24 January 2007 [00:26]
Azerbaijani national football team under 19 will meet with Georgian team in the second stage of European Championship.
24 January 2007 [00:04]
Azerbaijani Football Federations Association President Ramiz Mirzeyev met with Joseph Blatter, president of International Football Federations Association in Moscow.
24 January 2007 [00:02]
Baku Education Department and Media Council held a roundtable on Ways to improve cooperation between educational institutions and media.
23 January 2007 [23:58]
The officials of the State Veterinary Service have been sent to Berde to investigate the fact of mass death of poultries in village of Gilinjli.
23 January 2007 [23:54]
Azerbaijan's Court of Grave Crimes presided over judge Mursel Aliyev will begin on Wednesday the trial of the soldier of Military Unit N Ruslan Mayilov.
23 January 2007 [23:52]
Chinese citizens engaged in trading in Baku had a quarrel.
23 January 2007 [23:50]
A group of 45 local and Korean doctors held free medical examination in Gabala by the support of Seoul-Baku (SEBA) Azerbaijan-Korean Cultural Exchange Association and Azerbaijan Taekwondo Federation.
23 January 2007 [21:17]
Most members of Haji Mammadov's gang that were kept in the detention ward of National Security ministry were transferred to Bayil Investigation ward.
23 January 2007 [21:14]
President Ilham Aliyev issued a decree on 50% increase of salaries of members of National Science Academy institutes and research centers.
23 January 2007 [17:09]
The heat will be above the average climate norm in summer in Azerbaijan.
23 January 2007 [13:41]
Penitentiary Service Medical Institution diagnosed the health problems of Akif Muradverdiyev, President's Office ex-Administrative Office chief.
23 January 2007 [12:44]
19,045 criminal cases were recorded in Azerbaijan in 2006, 1,711 or 9% of which are grievous crimes.
23 January 2007 [12:18]
Last year 15 000 earthquake shocks recorded by seismographs in far and near territories of Azerbaijan.
23 January 2007 [00:26]
Azerbaijan's ecological problems will be discussed at the 15th economic and environmental forum of OSCE member states.
23 January 2007 [00:23]
On Monday, 120th meeting of World Health Organization (WHO) Executive Committee (EC) commenced.
23 January 2007 [00:15]
Azerbaijani Bar Association chief Azer Tagiyev and member of the presidium Ikram Shirinov was on official visit to Hungary at the invitation of Hungarian Bar Association.
23 January 2007 [00:14]
The meeting of Culture, Science and Education Committee was held within the winter session of Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
22 January 2007 [23:59]
State Commission for Students' Admission (SCSA) will hold test examinations on new entrance models on January 28 in Jalilabad, Ismailli and Tovuz.
22 January 2007 [23:59]
Ganja Fire Fighting Service got new equipment recently.
22 January 2007 [23:36]
Health Minister Innovation and Supply Center gave license to over 100 drugstores.
22 January 2007 [23:35]
8 cameras have been installed in Baku to prevent traffic accidents and violence of traffic rules.
22 January 2007 [23:31]
Gadjar Huseynov, reporter of Yeni Dushunje newspaper published in Tblilisi till 2004, is going to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights.
22 January 2007 [22:12]
Polish soccer officials fear the national side will be axed from Euro 2008 after FIFA and UEFA warned on Monday they would take action over a row with the government.
22 January 2007 [19:22]
Law enforcement bodies searched the house of a religious man in Khachmaz.
22 January 2007 [17:13]
The meeting on the results of tender of ANS TV and ANS CM radio frequency will be held in late January, National Television and Radio Council Chairman Nushirvan Meherremli told.
22 January 2007 [16:17]
Deputy Shamkir Prosecutor's mother was killed, law enforcement bodies told the APA. According to the information, in the evening at about 19.00 Deputy Prosecutor of Shamkir region Fuad Mammadov's mother Ferida Mammadova's body was found in her house situated in 8, R. Aliyev St, Ganja.
22 January 2007 [16:14]
The temperature in Azerbaijan will be above the climate norm in three days.
22 January 2007 [16:06]
The Azerbaijani advocates of Ramil Safarov, officer of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces, life sentenced by April 13 2006 order of the Budapest Court, are officially permitted to participate in the trial from February 22, advocate of the officer returned from Hungary Ikram Shirinov told.
22 January 2007 [15:41]
Natig Oujov, a resident of Kohne Emenkend village, the region of Bilesuvar, born in 1989, hanged himself.
22 January 2007 [15:37]
"I am satisfied with the court's decision on the case of Haji Mammadov," Irada Aliyeva, wife of Rovshen Aliyev, former high ranking official of the Interior Ministry, killed in March 2002.
22 January 2007 [15:35]
Azerbaijan's Court of Grave Crimes presided over by Nushabe Agayeva held the preliminary hearing of Criminal case launched against Nurse Ofeliya Safarova and head doctor of Zibakhanim Clinic.
22 January 2007 [01:39]
A school pupil of Armenian origin was killed in Moscow, a source in the law-enforcement bodies of the Russian capital said Sunday.
21 January 2007 [23:16]
Azerbaijan's grandmaster Teymur Rajabov suffered his first defeat at the Corus Chess Tournament 2007 in Wijk aan Zee by losing to Armenia's Levon Aronian.
21 January 2007 [16:46]
A moderate earthquake shook eastern Turkey on Sunday, causing damage to homes in at least seven villages in the eastern Turkish province of Agri, Governor Halil Ibrahim Akpinar said. Two people were slightly injured.
21 January 2007 [16:40]
Three lorries belonging to the Republic of Azerbaijan burnt on fire in Astara at the joint border with the Islamic Republic of Iran Sunday morning.
21 January 2007 [02:34]
Belarusian Sergey Pavlyukovich has gone to the native country in connection with personal affairs.
21 January 2007 [02:30]
"Sport facilities and stadiums in Azerbaijan will not be reconstructed in 2007," stated Azad Rehimov, minister of youth and sports.
21 January 2007 [02:23]
Fire took place in the building of Statistics Office, the region of Berde at 10.00 on Saturday morning.
Dance of death at Azerbaijani border
UK wants to transfer its illegal immigrants to Armenia
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Minister Bayramov attends GCC meeting
Iran plays war game to avoid world's wrath over Palestinian issue
New project launched to promote country's musical and architectural heritage
Tehran airports resumes operations