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Military parades are designed to communicate. When Armenia staged its first such display in a decade on May 28th in Yerevan's Republic Square,...
Thirty years ago, Azerbaijan was a country importing electricity and natural gas, with a poverty rate above 50 per cent and nearly a million...
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has proposed a new regional security architecture stretching from Pakistan to the Persian Gulf, describing it as...
When Russia wants to remind a neighbour of its dependence, it reaches for the fruit bowl. Recently, the Russian consumer safety regulator, known as...
The World Urban Forum ended in Baku three days ago with a Call for Action on housing and sustainable urbanism. The agricultural development conference...
Since the Gulf crisis, most countries have reevaluated their energy security policies and the methods for delivering energy supplies. Moreover,...
The flag was lowered from the Baku Olympic Stadium later that Friday afternoon, marking the end of the biggest gathering of the World Urban Forum in...
On the penultimate day of the 13th session of the United Nations World Urban Forum (WUF13) in Baku, AzerNEWS had the honor to talk with former...
There is a figure that has characterized every discussion held so far during the current week's World Urban Forum in Baku, and it is worth...
World Urban Forum's 13th session in Baku enters its fourth day and speaking to AzerNEWS on the outskirts of the session, Syed Kumail Hyder Shah...
Pakistan’s Minister for Climate Change and Environmental Coordination, Musadik Masood Malik, praised Azerbaijan’s leadership role during the 13th...
On the face of it, a meeting between the president of Kenya and the CEO of Azerbaijan’s state oil company can be assumed to be one of those courtesy...
Azerbaijan is once again at the center of the global agenda, hosting the World Urban Forum (WUF13) in partnership with the United Nations Human...
The Ustyurt Plateau lies along the Uzbek-Kazakh border like a gigantic geological whispering, dry, barely investigated, and holding the sort of...
President Erdoğan met Belgian Queen Mathilde in Istanbul on Monday. He called updating the EU-Türkiye Customs Union "a key area necessitating...
Since 2008, the International Transport Forum has been hosted in Leipzig every year in May, and there have been few exceptions when the situation was...
There is a figure hidden within an ADB research paper that needs to be highlighted and understood. Based on IMF gravity model calculations, as pointed...
After a month full of visits, the leaders of four of Europe's strategically essential countries realized that the strategic importance of...
On April 25, standing alongside President Ilham Aliyev in Gabala during his first state visit to the South Caucasus region following the start of...
In the early hours of Monday, 5 May, Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will board a flight from Yerevan, where she will participate in the...
The biggest infrastructure project Azerbaijan will undertake within the next two years will not be a pipeline but rather a power line. Construction of...
Agdam sat deserted for almost three decades, completely looted of any material of value, its houses standing as mere skeletons, its streets empty. The...
As the Russian-Ukrainian conflict drags on without any breakthrough, diplomatic endeavors have begun shifting from grand peace congresses to smaller...
When Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš touched down in Azerbaijan on 27 April, he made a point of noting publicly that Baku was his first destination...
In a country where almost 90% of its exports remain in the form of hydrocarbons, the presence of a small Azerbaijan company’s jams and dried fruit...
We are already in the second month of the Gulf War, and the parties remain unable to reach a common ground, even on the resolution of the conflict....
On May 17th, between 15,000 and 25,000 individuals will make their way to Baku for the 13th edition of the UN World Urban Forum. Urban planners,...
Wednesday, April 16th, was a busy day in Brussels. One room saw discussions between a high-level delegation from Azerbaijan and representatives of the...
A more fragile global backdrop is beginning to weigh on growth prospects, as highlighted by the International Monetary Fund in its April 2026 World...
Ever since the onset of the Gulf conflict - the US and Israel against Iran, the world economy has found itself in a precarious 'tightrope'...
The first step with regard to the Oliver Wyman projection is, of course, the math. Azerbaijan’s GDP in 2025 was estimated at around $75 billion....
There is a restaurant in Tsaghkadzor, a ski resort town an hour north of Yerevan, called Dahook. The restaurant specializes in Armenian food served in...
The political earthquake in Hungary, marked by the electoral defeat of Viktor Orbán and the rise of Péter Magyar, signals more than just a domestic...
For a country that exports oil to twelve European nations and sits at the centre of Eurasia's most active transit corridor, Azerbaijan's...
If you ask who emerged as a loser in Islamabad, the answer is quite clear. After more than 21 hours of face-to-face talks, the most serious...
Hungary stands at what could be a defining political turning point, as voters head to the polls in one of the most competitive elections the country...
On April 8, less than two hours before the deadline for the ultimatum issued by the United States against Iran, an interim agreement on a ceasefire...
At the recent G20 summit held in New Delhi in September 2023, when the leaders announced the formation of the India-Middle East-Europe Economic...
The world has grown accustomed to wars that do not end. The ongoing war in Ukraine, four years since Russia’s annexation, has cost hundreds of...
From the very beginning of the US–Israel–Iran war, the central question has been deceptively simple: who will win, and how will it end? Yet with...
For five weeks, the world's oil markets have been operating on borrowed time. Commercial reserves have been drawn down, tanker traffic has been...
When Mikheil Kavelashvili was elected as Georgia's new president, the first visit he undertook was neither to Brussels nor Washington nor Ankara;...
Three years ago, the idea of Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia building a common regional home seemed a noble wish - admirable in concept, impossibly...
On Thursday, two of the world's most powerful energy companies signed a document that said something significant about where they think the...
There’s a phrase that keeps turning up in the official verbiage of the Organization of Turkic States - "fraternal peoples,"...
"All I have to do is leave Iran." That was Donald Trump on Wednesday, standing in the Oval Office, speaking to reporters about gas prices....
As Iranian missiles strike Türkiye for the fourth time and a new regional security order stirs quietly in Riyadh, Pakistan is threading an almost...
For decades, Tokyo’s energy planners quietly recognized an uncomfortable reality: Japan’s economy was balanced on a single thread – a...
When Yerevan's deputy prime minister called the opening of Azerbaijani transit routes "significant", he was understating a seismic...
Reports that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky may announce presidential elections and a peace referendum this spring have triggered intense...