Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan Railways will purchase seven new locomotives and spare parts from the Chinese company CRRC Ziyang Co., Ltd.; according to local media, all technical and commercial terms have been finalized for a total value of $26 million

After new landmine incidents that left four people severely injured, the UN in Azerbaijan posted on X it "recognizes the urgency of humanitarian mine action as prerequisite for sustainable development & stands ready to continue to support Azerbaijan"

Construction industry in Azerbaijan registered an upward trend, with latest data showing a +19% increase in production of construction plaster in the first two months of 2025 compared to last year

The Red Cross said the Azerbaijan government had ordered it to leave the country; the Azerbaijani division of the Red Cross was the only international organisation authorised to visit some 20 former Nagorno Karabakh officials held in Baku jails

Bloomberg’s correspondent accreditation in Azerbaijan has been revoked, Report news agency states, citing sources

The first meeting of the Pardon Commission under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan is scheduled for tomorrow 12 February

The best athletes of 2024 have been announced by Ministry of Youth and Sports: the best female athlete prize was awarded to archer Yaylagul Ramazanova, competing pregnant in 2024 Olympics, and the title of best male athlete to judoka Hidayat Heydarov

The consortium led by Saudi Arabian ACWA Power has won the tender to build a seawater desalination plant in Baku, considered a major step forward for water security and infrastructure development

An Azerbaijan Trade Centre in Lahore,Pakistan and a Pakistani-Azerbaijani Chamber of Commerce will soon be established to bring business communities of both countries closer together and open new avenues for cooperation, said the Azerbaijani ambassador

The Zangezur corridor must and will be opened, noted President Aliyev, and Armenia should not act as a geographical barrier between Türkiye and Azerbaijan, but as an element of peace and cooperation in the South Caucasus instead

As physical and technical interference appear to the cause of the crash-land that killed 38 people, Azimuth Airlines has cancelled flights to a number of Russian airports including Mineralnye Vody, Sochi, Volgograd, Ufa, Samara, Makhachkala, and Grozny

The Vatican Secretary for Relations with States and International Organizations concluded his official visit to Azerbaijan -13 to 16 December- where his blessed the site and lay the foundation stone of a church dedicated to Saint John Paul II in Baku

Another 48 families were relocated to the country’s liberated Shusha city as part of the Great Return State Program; around 30.000 people now live in Karabakh and Eastern Zangezur, mainly former internally displaced persons and workers in various sectors