Two satirical bloggers who staged an interview with a donkey were sent to prison in Azerbaijan Wednesday, following a two-month trial for assault, the father of one told CNN.
Turkey and Armenia signed an agreement Saturday night establishing diplomatic relations after nearly a century of animosity.
The governments of Armenia and Turkey will sign a peace agreement in Zurich on Saturday that would normalize relations after nearly a century of animosity between the neighboring nations, the Swiss government said Friday.
Hours after Turkey and Armenia announced a tentative, Swiss-mediated peace deal, opposition politicians in Turkey were blasting the proposal.
More than 1,100 people worldwide have died from swine flu since it emerged in Mexico and the U.S. in April, according to the latest figures from the World Health Organization.
Officials from six countries gathered Monday in Turkey and signed a deal to build a U.S.-backed pipeline, aimed at breaking Russia's near-monopoly on natural gas supplies to Europe.
Norwegian violinist, Alexander Rybak, 23, won the Eurovision Song Contest with an upbeat ballad that got the most votes in the history of one of the world's most watched television shows.
A gunman killed 12 people Thursday at a university in Baku, the capital of the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan, before killing himself, the country's interior ministry said.
A European security organization expressed hope Tuesday that the recent release of three journalists in Azerbaijan signals positive change in the former Soviet republic.
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Two satirical bloggers who staged an interview with a donkey were sent to prison in Azerbaijan Wednesday, following a two-month trial for assault, the father of one told CNN.
Turkey and Armenia signed an agreement Saturday night establishing diplomatic relations after nearly a century of animosity.
The governments of Armenia and Turkey will sign a peace agreement in Zurich on Saturday that would normalize relations after nearly a century of animosity between the neighboring nations, the Swiss government said Friday.
Hours after Turkey and Armenia announced a tentative, Swiss-mediated peace deal, opposition politicians in Turkey were blasting the proposal.
More than 1,100 people worldwide have died from swine flu since it emerged in Mexico and the U.S. in April, according to the latest figures from the World Health Organization.
Officials from six countries gathered Monday in Turkey and signed a deal to build a U.S.-backed pipeline, aimed at breaking Russia's near-monopoly on natural gas supplies to Europe.
Norwegian violinist, Alexander Rybak, 23, won the Eurovision Song Contest with an upbeat ballad that got the most votes in the history of one of the world's most watched television shows.
A gunman killed 12 people Thursday at a university in Baku, the capital of the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan, before killing himself, the country's interior ministry said.
A European security organization expressed hope Tuesday that the recent release of three journalists in Azerbaijan signals positive change in the former Soviet republic.
In focus: Investing in Middle East Art
The head of Azerbaijan's air force was fatally shot outside his home Wednesday morning, two independent news agencies reported.
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The U.S.-led coalition in Iraq is swiftly dwindling as security and stability return to the country, and by January only the United States and five other nations are likely to remain, according to a top military officer.
The president of oil-rich Azerbaijan has been re-elected to a second five-year term by landslide
Singapore, New Zealand and the United States have the world's friendliest business climates for small companies, according to a World Bank report released this week.
As the traditional adversaries face each other in a World Cup match, their presidents seek to effect a thaw
U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney said Thursday the United States firmly backs NATO membership for Georgia, telling Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili that America will help his country rebuild its democracy and economy after last month's conflict with Russia.
The Vice President vows support and money, but his mission is to keep oil and gas from the Caucasus flowing to the West
Vice President Dick Cheney reiterated U.S. support for Georgia on the opening day of a tour of three former Soviet republics.
Pushing back against an increasingly aggressive Moscow, President Bush said Wednesday the U.S. will send an extra $1 billion to Georgia to help the pro-Western former Soviet republic in the wake of Russia's invasion
Russia may have slowed Georgia's move into NATO, but it may remind neighbors why they want Western protection
A scarcity of petroleum engineers means hard-to-get crude is increasingly difficult to extract -- and even high salaries will not solve the problem overnight
Authorities in Azerbaijan recently uncovered a radical Islamic terror plot against the U.S. Embassy in the capital, Baku, prompting the facility to close its doors to the public Monday, Azerbaijan and U.S. officials told CNN.
Ten people are trapped alive under the rubble of a 14-story building that collapsed killing at least seven in Azerbaijan's capital, emergency services said on Wednesday.
The U.S. government said Friday it had agreed not to prosecute Omega Advisors Inc., a $6 billion hedge fund, over its role in an alleged scheme to bribe Azeri officials and gain control of the Azerbaijan state oil company.
Russia's new proposal for a missile defense system in Europe is far afield from what the United States has in mind and unlikely to garner much support, defense analysts said
U.S. President George Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed Thursday at the G8 summit in Germany to cooperate on missile-defense systems, apparently cooling tensions between the two leaders.
The latest bird flu victim in Indonesia, a 67-year-old woman, died Sunday in Bandung, West Java, the Indonesian Bird Flu Information Center reported Monday.
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Dr. David Olson has had patients in a remote region between Armenia and Azerbaijan. He has treated people in the breakaway Georgian republic of Abkhazia near the Black Sea and in a gulag prison hospital in Siberia. He has had patients in a northwest Uganda town called Arua.
Health officials in Azerbaijan say the deadly H5N1 strain has been found in dead birds from the country's Caspian sea coast.
Suffering through an energy crisis in the midst of an unusually cold winter, the former Soviet republic of Georgia on Saturday said Iran had agreed to provide it with emergency natural gas.
Gas has started flowing to Georgia after an explosion shut off supplies from Russia, which was accused by Georgian officials of deliberately triggering an energy crisis in its small ex-Soviet neighbor.
The bodies of all 23 people aboard a turboprop plane that crashed near the Azerbaijan capital of Baku have been recovered from the wreckage, police said.
Parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan failed to meet international standards for free and fair voting, an observer mission said Monday in an announcement that could embolden opposition parties to take to the streets of this former Soviet republic.
The campaign chief of an exiled opposition leader has been detained, his party said Saturday, one day before Azerbaijan's people elect a new parliament amid allegations of electoral fraud and fears that protests could be violently suppressed.
Offers of aid and assistance from countries around the world in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina continued to pour in Tuesday to the U.S. State Department.
The alleged recruiter of six Yemeni-Americans from upstate New York who went to al Qaeda military training camps in the summer of 2001 denies recruiting the men or being connected to the terrorist organization linked to the September 11 attacks.
Does the U.S. have a corruption problem? Transparency International, a global watchdog, recently released its tenth annual corruption perceptions index, a worldwide survey of businesspeople and cou...
An Azerbaijani cargo plane has crashed in northwest China killing all seven crew members, according to Xinhua news agency.
Increasingly these days, writing about business means writing about lawyers. Think about it: tobacco, HMOs, Internet file sharing--these are all stories that hinge largely on the outcome of litigat...
When a guy called the Pirate of Prague asks you to partner up with him again--you lost your shirt the first time--it's easy to be dismissive. Nonetheless, in the kind of audacious ploy only he coul...
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