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Azerbaijan's parliament has approved tighter Internet controls in a move media freedom groups fear could be used to curb online dissent and paralyze independent journalists in advance of presidential elections this October.

Azerbaijan, Baku, May 21 / Trend / President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has today received Georgia's Minister of Internal Affairs Irakli Gharibashvili.

Azerbaijan, Baku, May 21 / Trend / President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has today received a Spanish delegation led by Minister of Defense Pedro de Morenes y Alvarez de Eulate.

Lovely summer is ahead, with the warmest and sunny days in store for us. However, the prolongation of the sunny hours that brighten up our life and souls also has adverse effects due to the danger of excessive sunlight causing undesirable impact on human health.

Dina Garipova of Russia performs the song "What If" during the final of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest.

STEPANAKERT, May 21. /ARKA/. Favorable environment for investments is created in Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, the Nagorno-Karabakh Agriculture Minister Andranik Khachatryan said Tuesday as met with Brian Steven Fer, the Honorary Consul of Armenia in Bergstrasse, Hesse, and Werner Hartman, a prominent businessman.

Turkey is set to receive a new refinery after Azerbaijan's Socar and a Spanish-led group ink a multibillion-dollar deal to build the facility on Izmir's Petkim peninsula on the Aegean coastSocar Turkey and a consortium led by Spain's Tecnicas Reunidas signed an... The first thing you need to do is choose a news reader, if you already don't have ... (more)

The Russian American Foundation presents a retrospective of work by Russian-born American artist Nahum Tschacbasov .

Azerbaijan, Baku, May 20 / Trend E. Kosolapova/ Kazakhstan's Financial Police Agency has detained the Deputy Minister of Education and Science Sayat Shayakhmetov and General Director of 'Management of Education and Science Projects Construction' A. Pak, the press service of the financial police reported.

Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev has ordered an inquiry into why his country gave Russia "nul points" at Saturday's Eurovision Song Contest.

The Premier was informed that the centre was a cultural complex in Baku, Azerbaijan, named after former President of Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev.

Subunits of the Armenian Armed Forces shattered ceasefire in Marzili, Yusifjanli, Kengerli villages of Agdam region, Garakhanbayli village of Fizuli region, Tap Garagoyunlu village of Goranboy region on May 19-20. The Armenians were silenced with a retail fire, the Defense Ministry said.

The delegation under the leadership of the head of Caucasian Muslims Office Sheikh ul-Islam Allahshukur Pashazade, being on a visit to Iran, met with the president of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, IRNA reported.

The visit to Israel in April 2013 by Azeri Foreign Minister Elmar Mamadyarov, which involved meetings with the president, prime minister, and security officials including the defense minister, again intensified Tehran's concerns over the growing ties between Jerusalem and Baku, both of which view Iran as a threat, albeit to different extents.

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras vowed to return to Azerbaijan after holding talks in Baku on Sunday with the countryA's president Ilham Aliyev.

Georgia received $122.4 million from abroad in the form of money transfers in April 2013.

Azerbaijan, Baku, May 20 / Trend A. Taghiyeva /

Azerbaijan's territory will not be used as a base for a military strike on Iran by Israel or the U.S, spokesman for the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry Elman Abdullayev said in an interview with the Egyptian media today.

Bob Dylan's cannabis use and anti-war stance mean he's been deemed 'unworthy' of France's highest honour.

Welsh Eurovision hopeful Bonnie Tyler said she had no regrets after her mission to win the annual song contest ended in failure in Sweden.

Azerbaijan Has Recognized the Independence of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Not Only De Facto, but Also De Jure May 17 2013 Political scientist Gagik Hambaryan provided us with a few important documents, according to which Azerbaijan's leadership had de jure recognized the independence of the NKR long before.