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23 September 2006 [20:15]
European U-17 championship qualifiers took place September 23 in Baku.
23 September 2006 [16:21]
Elchin Behbudov, chairman of Azerbaijani Committee against Tortures visited Bayilov jail #1.
23 September 2006 [15:19]
"Ganja Road Police Chief Ikram Khalilov had no fault in the quarrel. He made a car violating traffic regulation stop. But he was badly beaten," Interior Minister Ramil Usubov said.
23 September 2006 [15:00]
Interior Ministry's Department Fighting Human Traffic detained Yevlakh region resident Arkinaz Abdulayeva in an operation.
23 September 2006 [14:50]
23 September 2006 [14:47]
Azerbaijani fencers will take part in the world championship in Turin, Italy.
23 September 2006 [14:45]
Minister of Education Misir Mardanov met with representatives of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Elvalid Hamuru and Alma Isabayeva, press service of the Ministry announced.
23 September 2006 [14:13]
Today Students of University of Independent Azerbaijan who entered the university through the university examination re-started sit-down protest.
23 September 2006 [13:33]
Azerbaijani football referees will take charge of the EURO 2008 qualifying round match between Czech Republic and San Marino on October 7.
23 September 2006 [12:55]
Azerbaijan's Police will be provided with new uniform in 2008, said Interior Minister Ramil Usubov.
23 September 2006 [12:31]
200 new BMW-320 automobiles were given to the State Road Police at Azadliq Square on Saturday.
23 September 2006 [01:29]
MP, head of the Azerbaijan-Ukraine inter-parliamentary working group Farrukh Zeynalov will visit Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, from September 21 to 28 to participate in the celebrations marking the 100th anniversary of Azerbaijan's outstanding poet Samad Vurgun.
23 September 2006 [00:57]
The outcomes of the first French-Azerbaijani archeological excavations will be announced in a conference at the French Culture Center in Baku on October 6.
23 September 2006 [00:53]
The United States is the most important country for Azerbaijan, Education Minister Misir Mardanov has said.
23 September 2006 [00:46]
The combat against corruption in Azerbaijan is gaining momentum, a presidential administration official said.
22 September 2006 [23:04]
Teen-age students of secondary school #563 in the Russian capital, Moscow came into conflict which resulted in one of them stabbing the other.
22 September 2006 [23:00]
Hezbollah's leader Sheik Nasrallah made his first public appearance Friday since the war with Israel began July 12, taking the stage at a gigantic rally in the Lebanese capital Beirut's bombed-out suburbs.
22 September 2006 [22:50]
Prosecutor's Office has not ended preliminary investigation of several former high ranking officials, who were arrested in October last year.
22 September 2006 [22:37]
Roman Catholic Pope Benedict XVI yesterday met with ambassadors of Muslim countries and Muslim religious leaders to restore the dialogue between Catholic Church and Islamic world.
22 September 2006 [22:00]
Azerbaijani ex-economic development minister Farhad Aliyev confronted tried gang leader Haji Mammadov at the National Security Ministry, Adil Ismayilov told.
22 September 2006 [16:39]
Creation of Art Council in Azerbaijan is mentioned in the declaration on joint cooperation of Culture and Tourism Ministry with TV channels in the country.
22 September 2006 [16:30]
The private Independent Azerbaijan University’s students and their parents begin sit-down strike in the university building in Rasulzadeh Street, Vugar Suleymanov, IAU Students' Rights Defense Committee chief told.
22 September 2006 [15:58]
Chief of Azerbaijani city of Ganja Police Office Traffic police department Ikram Khalilov was murdered at the night of September 21 to 22.
22 September 2006 [15:36]
Azerbaijani capital of Baku will host the forum of journalists from Turkish-speaking countries next year.
22 September 2006 [15:27]
The causes of the incident occurred in Azerbaijani capital, Baku, have been investigated, investigator Anar Rzayev stated.
22 September 2006 [11:13]
U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan Anne E. Derse, Ministry of Education Misir Mardanov, and representatives of U.S. government partner organizations will announce recruitment season for the 2007-2008 season of U.S.-funded educational exchange programs tomorrow.
22 September 2006 [11:11]
Iranian intelligence service strengthened the control over the cities in the northern territory of the country for preventing the September 23 protest actions of Azerbaijanis who demand the rights to get education in their native language, Seid Neimi, South Azerbaijan Committee to Defend Political Prisoners' Rights stated.
22 September 2006 [10:03]
Azerbaijan Domain Registration held a workshop on National Domain Names and Prospects of Internet.
22 September 2006 [09:38]
The 1st International Forum on problems of the Caspian states problem will be held in Baku on September 22, Almaz Sultanzadeh, Culture and Tourism Ministry official told.
22 September 2006 [09:34]
The number of regional television channels will rise in Azerbaijan, Nushirevan Meherremli, National TV and Radio Council chief told.
22 September 2006 [09:28]
State Veterinary Service will announce the results of bird flu monitoring on October 1-2. The monitoring, which started September 18, covered sanctuaries in Devechi, Salyan, Agjabedi, Masalli.
22 September 2006 [09:23]
Qatar's Al-Jazeera TV channel will shoot a documentary film about Azerbaijan and Nagorno Karabakh problem.
22 September 2006 [09:16]
Joint Training Center of Azerbaijani and Ukrainian Armed Forces is expected to be opened in Azerbaijan by the end of this year.
21 September 2006 [21:37]
"Armenian Church in Baku is going to be used as President's library," Abulfas Garayev, Culture and Tourism Minister told journalists.
21 September 2006 [16:30]
The process of withdrawal of military equipment and weapons from Russian 62nd military base in Akhalkalak, Georgia is over under Sochi contract.
21 September 2006 [16:18]
"The infection spread among people in Azerbaijan is not flu. It is called "three-day disease"," Namig Aliyev, the state head infectiologist stated.
21 September 2006 [16:08]
Baku Police Department does not agree with criticizing police officers' activity for two crimes committed in Yasamal district in the past one month.
21 September 2006 [15:14]
Azerbaijani ex-economic development minister Farhad Aliyev has been transferred to the jail of National Security Ministry from the Treatment Center of Penitentiary Service today.
21 September 2006 [14:03]
The Office of Caucasian Muslims (OCM) headquartered in Baku announced the start of holy Muslim month-Ramadan.
21 September 2006 [09:33]
Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of Population has worked out amendments to the Labor Code.
21 September 2006 [09:27]
Taxes Ministry Cadre and Training Officer Faig Shahbazov gave a press conference on the recruitment.
21 September 2006 [09:17]
Scientists of Geology Institute of Azerbaijan National Academy of Science (GIANAS) proceed researches dealing with nutrients of the Caspian Sea together their colleagues from Wayne State University, U.S.
21 September 2006 [09:15]
Police officers detained a villager illegally hunting for wild birds in Azerbaijani southern region of Masalli.
21 September 2006 [09:14]
Deadly car accident occurred on Elet-Astara highway on September 19.
21 September 2006 [09:11]
Azerbaijan Interior Ministry Department to Fight Human Traffic arrested one more Azerbaijani woman.
20 September 2006 [20:21]
The death toll in a coal mine fire that erupted Wednesday morning in central Kazakhstan may rise to 41 people, the local governor's press secretary said.
20 September 2006 [19:42]
Azerbaijan's taekwondoist Elnur Amanov won bronze medal in the world championship in Thailand's capital, Bangkok.
20 September 2006 [19:38]
European Under-17 football championship qualifying games will be held at the Tofig Bahramov stadium in Baku, September 23-26.
20 September 2006 [15:59]
Roman Catholic Pope Benedict XVI declared himself "deeply sorry" for the effect his remarks have had on the Muslim world.
20 September 2006 [15:16]
The Amnesty International issued its second statement on South Azerbaijan (Iran) national movement activist Abbas lisani, who was arrested on June 3, this year for anti-government campaign and held in Ardabil detention place.
20 September 2006 [15:02]
President Ilham Aliyev might issue the next pardon decree before the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) autumn session.
20 September 2006 [14:15]
At least eleven miners were killed and ten were injured in the firedamp explosion at 1078 m depth of Donetsk coal mine "Zasyad'ko".
20 September 2006 [13:53]
The administration of Baku Music Academy has re-appealed to the President's Office for renaming the higher educational institution by prominent composer Uzeyir Hajibeyov.
20 September 2006 [13:50]
The holy Ramadan starts September 24, Office of Caucasian Muslims (OCM) told.
20 September 2006 [10:08]
Azerbaijan's football coaches can get A category in Bulgaria.
20 September 2006 [09:53]
On Tuesday, Azerbaijan's Grave Crimes Court continued Sakit Zahidov's (Mirza Sakit) trial.
19 September 2006 [22:09]
Vice President of the National Olympic Committee Chingiz Huseynzade met September 19 with Chairperson of Bulgaria's State Agency for Youth and Sports Mrs. Vesela Lecheva and her accompanying delegation to discuss prospects of further boosting the bilateral relations between the two countries in the fields of youth affairs and sports.
19 September 2006 [19:56]
19 September 2006 [19:49]
Apostolic Nunciature charge d'affaires Rolandas Makritskas arrived in Baku with an urgent mission.
19 September 2006 [19:47]
The place of residential town to be built for young families on preferential conditions has been determined.
19 September 2006 [19:44]
Azerbaijani Prosecutor's Office continues interrogating members of the criminal gang led by Haji Mammadov, former high ranking officer of Interior Ministry.
19 September 2006 [19:33]
Azerbaijan's Prosecutor's Office is interrogating the members of the criminal gang led by Haji Mammadov, former high ranking official of Interior Ministry.
19 September 2006 [16:06]
The delegation led by the first female astronaut Valentina Tereshkova will visit Baku from September 28 to 30 in the frames of the Russian Year in Azerbaijan.
19 September 2006 [15:45]
The sophomore students of the private Independent Azerbaijan University, which was banned by the Education Ministry, staged protest action outside the President's Palace for restoring their rights for receiving education.
19 September 2006 [14:48]
"I would not advice you to visit Istanbul. I know these matters very well. You life is in danger, do not come to Istanbul," imprisoned Mehmet Ali Agca wrote in the letter addressed to Roman Catholic Pope Benedict XVI.
19 September 2006 [14:12]
The main reason for the delay of creating Jury in Azerbaijan is due to the gaps in the legislation.
19 September 2006 [13:00]
"P.S.S" Security Service officers and about 50 civic uniformed men removed Independent Azerbaijan University students, who are going on hunger strike in the university halls, from the building.
19 September 2006 [12:41]
Georgia Education Minister hosts the Black Sea Conference on higher education titled 'University Entrance Exams-fairness, Equality, Availability'.
19 September 2006 [11:55]
Niyazi Huseynov, editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Yeni Dushunje" ("New Thought"), which has suspended in Georgia, has appealed to Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili.
19 September 2006 [11:39]
Every year Azerbaijan celebrates "Tempus day" on September 18.
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.
Foreign Ministers of China, South Korea and Japan hold meeting in Tokyo
Istanbul Airport witnesses growth in number of passenger & cargo traffic
MÜS?AD outlines strategic steps for economic resilience
The Trans-Caspian route in the mirror of Azerbaijani-Chinese relations
Armenians begged Snoop Dogg for budget money
Azerbaijan files arbitration claim against Armenia over environmental destruction
Alain vs Samvel: Circus on the wreckage of the "struggle"