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08 October 2009 [11:23]
Heavy rains in the Azerbaijani Hajigabul region (110 km outside Baku) have flooded nearly 800 homes.
08 October 2009 [11:08]
The Azerbaijani Youth and Sports Minister considers it necessary to increase soccer schools to develop football in the country.
08 October 2009 [09:55]
08 October 2009 [09:32]
08 October 2009 [08:48]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev inspected complete overhaul in capital`s garden near the State Philharmonic Hall on Oct. 7.
07 October 2009 [16:34]
The National Television and Radio Council of Azerbaijan will discuss the situation in local radios in its next meeting, said Chairman of the Council Nushiravan Maharramli at the meeting dedicated on the article “Azerbaijani air space: problems and duties” by Ramiz Mehdiyev, Chief of the Presidential Administration.
07 October 2009 [16:29]
Sevastopol law-enforcement bodies arrested two persons suspected of destroying the monument erected to the Azerbaijanis who were killed while liberating Crimea from fascists, chairman of Crimea regional organization of Ukrainian Azerbaijanis Congress Rahim Humbatov said.
07 October 2009 [16:12]
Azerbaijani Press Council will expand cooperation with the OSCE and Council of Europe.
07 October 2009 [14:42]
American scientists Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas A. Steitz, and Ada E. Yonath of Israel won the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome."
07 October 2009 [14:07]
Number of people who immigrated to Azerbaijan is under constant control of the State Migration Service.
07 October 2009 [12:53]
Vitrages for the palace of the Georgian King Irakli II in Telavi were damaged due to frequent rains and needs be replaced immediately.
07 October 2009 [12:41]
The Azerbaijani embassy to Ukraine sent a diplomatic note to Ukrainian authorities about destruction of the monument to Azerbaijanis fell victims while liberating Sevastopol from fascists, Azerbaijani ambassador to Ukraine Talat Aliyev said on Oct. 7.
07 October 2009 [12:29]
The first world media summit will be held in Beijing on Oct. 8-10.
07 October 2009 [12:15]
Thanks to its user-driven translation program, Facebook, the largest global social networking website, is now available in Azerbaijani.
07 October 2009 [11:33]
The Azerbaijani Education Ministry plans to establish a Council on the evaluation of electronic educational resources.
07 October 2009 [09:33]
07 October 2009 [08:55]
Tunisians will not be allowed to travel to Saudi Arabia for the Muslim pilgrimage or Haj because of fears of the H1N1 virus, known also as swine flu, the government announced Tuesday, DPA reported.
06 October 2009 [17:54]
The Swiss Justice Ministry says it has rejected an appeal from Roman Polanski to be released from prison pending his possible extradition to the United States, AP reported.
06 October 2009 [17:16]
The admission to post-graduate studies has been stopped in Azerbaijan, President of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS) Mahmud Karimov said.
06 October 2009 [15:45]
Charles Kao, Willard Boyle, and George Smith will share this year's Nobel Prize for physics, BBC reported.
06 October 2009 [13:42]
"The destruction of the monument to Azerbaijanis in Sevastopol is a very unexpected and sad event,” Chairman of the Congress of Ukrainian Azerbaijanis Akif Gulmammadov said commenting on media reports claiming that the monument in the Crimea erected to Azerbaijanis who died for the liberation of the city in the Great Patriotic War had been destroyed.
06 October 2009 [13:28]
The International Islamic Culinary Festival kicked off in Baku as part of Baku –Islamic Culture Capital 2009.
06 October 2009 [11:53]
The Azerbaijani Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry held a monitoring to study level of pollution of transboundary rivers.
06 October 2009 [09:55]
Caspian Sea Scientific Congress will he held in Iran soon.
06 October 2009 [09:43]
The Azerbaijani media will be provided with an opportunity to obtain information on courts' activities.
06 October 2009 [09:39]
05 October 2009 [16:30]
The German specialists hold workshops for the Azerbaijani football referees.
05 October 2009 [16:12]
Some 2, 710, 014 sq. m. of area was cleared from mines and unexploded ammunition in September, 2009.
05 October 2009 [15:58]
The Azerbaijani Serious Crimes Court has passed a sentence on persons charged with an attempt to blast Israeli embassy in Azerbaijan and Gabala Radar Station.
05 October 2009 [15:15]
U.S. scientists Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Grader and Jack Szostak became laureates in medicine for research of telomerization - enzyme that can be a key for everlasting youth, Vesti reported.
05 October 2009 [14:14]
“We know that tuition fees have been increased in some private higher schools this year and unfortunately we cannot influence the size of tuition fees of private higher schools,” Education Minister Misir Mardanov told reporters.
05 October 2009 [13:58]
Number of AIDS patients increased in southern Lankaran, Astara, Masalli, Yardimli, Lerik, Jalilabad and Bilasuvar regions of Azerbaijan.
05 October 2009 [13:38]
Azerbaijani secondary and higher schools hold preparations for winter season, said Education Minister Misir Mardanov told reporters.
05 October 2009 [13:21]
October 5 is a World Day of Teachers.
05 October 2009 [12:49]
Chairman of the Social Policy Committee of the Azerbaijani parliament Musa Guliyev has arrived in Kyrgyzstan to take part in the 4th conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Working Group of the Central Asian Azerbaijan for Combating AIDS.
05 October 2009 [10:28]
Two Azerbaijanis were shot on head in Moscow, APA quotes gazeta.ru as reporting.
05 October 2009 [09:36]
03 October 2009 [10:44]
The first international television of Azerbaijan ATV International (ATV Int) will be on air on Oct. 5, editor-in-chief of news department of ATV Vagif Aydinoglu said.
03 October 2009 [09:56]
03 October 2009 [09:22]
US President Barack Obama congratulated Brazil for winning the bid Friday to hold the 2016 Summer Games shortly after returning from his failed effort in Copenhagen to convince Olympic officials that Chicago would have been the best host, dpa reported.
03 October 2009 [08:48]
Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana beach erupted in Samba dancing and joy on Friday after the Brazilian city won the vote to host the 2016 Olympic Games, bringing the world's biggest sporting event to South America for the first time, Reuters reported.
02 October 2009 [17:40]
Azerbaijan will pay compensation to local people in Hajigabul region for the damage caused by mudslides and floods after a heavy rainfall.
02 October 2009 [16:43]
Azerbaijani Press Council will debate granting transport privileges to journalists.
02 October 2009 [14:17]
Azerbaijan State University of Economics hosted the conference “Experience and prospects of cooperation between Azerbaijani and German universities” within the Azerbaijan-German Days of Higher Education.
02 October 2009 [13:04]
Chairman of the Caucasus Muslims Office (CMO) Sheik-ul-Islam Haji Allahshukur Pashazade will pay a visit to Tajikistan.
02 October 2009 [12:31]
A billionaire Canadian circus tycoon is on his way to the International Space Station, AP reported.
02 October 2009 [12:14]
The U.S. Army says an autopsy shows a soldier from Florida who died while at Fort Jackson in South Carolina passed away from pneumonia caused by the H1N1 flu virus, AP reported.
02 October 2009 [11:43]
The European Human Rights Court has passed two more resolutions on Azerbaijan.
02 October 2009 [11:27]
Unexploded shells were have been found in Hasangaya village of Azerbaijan’s Tartar region.
02 October 2009 [09:55]
02 October 2009 [09:33]
Sabayel district court has held hearing on case of imprisoned bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizade.
01 October 2009 [17:22]
The first education fair of German universities in the South Caucasus has started in Baku today.
01 October 2009 [16:14]
Goods produced in Armenia was recently revealed in Azerbaijan.
01 October 2009 [15:54]
There are no Azerbaijani citizens among victims of the earthquake that took place in Malaysia.
01 October 2009 [14:51]
A student threw a shoe to Head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Dominique Strauss-Kahn during his speech at a university, Turkish CNN Turk TV channel reported.
01 October 2009 [14:38]
Elderly people comprise 28 percent of the Azerbaijani pensioners, Azerbaijan State Social Protection Fund (SSPF) senior official Elman Babayev said.
01 October 2009 [14:26]
Insanitation was the reason behind mass food poisoning in the Garaheybat Troop Training Center in Garadagh District of Baku, Prosecutor General Zakir Garalov told reporters.
01 October 2009 [13:29]
Culture Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Conference OIC, as well as several European countries will meet in Baku to continue discussions on intercultural dialogue launched in Dec. 2-3, 2008.
01 October 2009 [12:11]
Recent floods have damaged several schools in Masalli and Lankaran regions of Azerbaijan, Minister of Education Misir Mardanov told reporters.
01 October 2009 [11:55]
International experts have been involved to investigate murder of the Azerbaijani general, Prosecutor General Zakir Garalov told reporters.
01 October 2009 [11:46]
Reports about inspection in the Ministry of Education by the Prosecutor General's Office are untrue, Azerbaijani Education Minister Misir Mardanov said in response to a question about arrest of heads of education departments in several regions of the country following arrest of the head of the Goranboy education department.
01 October 2009 [11:35]
More than 1,600 witnesses have been interrogated on mass killing at the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy that took place on April 30, 2009, Azerbaijan's Prosecutor General Zakir Garalov said.
01 October 2009 [10:57]
01 October 2009 [10:38]
On Sept. 30, the cultural center of the Ministry of National Security of Azerbaijan hosted a regular meeting of State Commission on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Persons.
01 October 2009 [09:45]
01 October 2009 [09:22]
The term of financing of Azerbaijan's Public Television and Radio Company from the state budget has been prolonged till 2014.
01 October 2009 [08:34]
The State Veterinary Service under the Azerbaijani Agriculture Ministry noted the absence of the African swine fever in Azerbaijan.
30 September 2009 [15:12]
A diamond the size of a chicken egg has been found at the Cullinan mine northeast of Pretoria, Petra Diamonds Ltd. said, APA reports quoting the Associated Press, AP reported.
30 September 2009 [14:27]
"The Azerbaijani embassy in Turkey has not received information about swine flu cases of Azerbaijanis,” consul at Azerbaijani embassy in Turkey Elchin Rzayev said commenting on media reports which say swine flu case has been confirmed with 504 students in Turkey.
30 September 2009 [14:16]
The Turkish Health Ministry may prohibit annual Hajj pilgrimage if the number of vaccines against swine influenza A (H1N1) will be insufficient, Haber7 Web site reported.
30 September 2009 [13:55]
Chief of the Office of the State Historical-Architectural Reserve Inner City under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Azerbaijan Mikail Jabbarov spoke to Day.Az in an interview.
30 September 2009 [13:46]
The project “Cross-culture dialogue: Kitabi-Dede Gorgud and the Nibelungen Saga” has kicked off in Baku.
30 September 2009 [12:03]
Investigation into the death of Novruzali Mammadov, former department chief of Linguistics Institute of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, editor-in-chief of Tolishi Sedo newspaper has ended, assistant prosecutor of Nizami district Nasir Farziyev said.
30 September 2009 [11:38]
The Korean television will prepare a program about Azerbaijan.
30 September 2009 [11:25]
Azerbaijani Youth and Sport Minister Azad Rahimov will attend the 121st session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and XIII Olympic Congress to be held in Copenhagen on Oct. 1-9.
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