Azerbaijan News

Azerbaijan said talks with Armenia on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict would be "decisive" and warned Azeri troops were ready to use force to take back the rebel region if they fail.

Azerbaijan, Baku, Nov. 21 / Trend News U.Sadikhova /

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev was included in a book "500 most influential Muslims of the world," the International Institute of Islamic Thought reported.

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Close relatives of an employee of Neftegazstroy, who died falling to the sea from the platform on the Guneshli field, will receive compensation payment, the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR), which is an operator of the field said.

A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus. Experts say the historian may be reading too much into the markings, and they stand by carbon-dating that points to the shroud being a medieval forgery, AP reported.

Azerbaijan, Baku, Nov. 21 / Trend Capital U.Ismayilova /

The only swine flu patient still receiving treatment at the Azerbaijani Lung Diseases Research Institute may be discharged today, Chief Physician Khayyam Mammadov said today.

Azerbaijan, Baku, Nov. 21 / Trend News K.Zarbaliyeva /

On Nov. 20, the Armenian Armed Forces opened fire at Azerbaijani troops from the Vosgepar village in the Armenian Noyanberyan region to the Ashagi Asgipara village in the Gazakh region at 10:30-10:45, as well as from areas and the positions near the Tapgaragoyunlu village in the Goranboy region at 15.45-16:00. Further the Armenian Armed Forces opened fire at Azerbaijani troops from areas and the positions near the Marzili and Sarijali villages in the Agdam region at 19:00-19:10 and at 01:05 -01:10 on Nov.21, and from areas and the positions near the Garakhanbayli village in the Fizuli region at 21:00-21:15 on Nov.20, as well as from the positions near the Gizil Oba village in the Tartar region at 01:35-02:00 on Nov.21, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry reported.

The representative of UNICEF, or the UN Children's Fund, in Cuba said here Friday that Cuba is among the countries that have best implemented the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and that countries in the world should learn from Cuba on the protection of children's rights, Xinhua reported.

Guus Hiddink plans to return to Chelsea as technical director following his failure to guide Russia to the World Cup. Hiddink said yesterday that an announcement on his future could come as early as next month. He has a contract as Russia's head coach until the end of June 2010 but sources say the Dutchman will almost certainly quit and take a job at Chelsea, Guardian reported.

Azerbaijan, Baku, Nov. 20 / Trend News U.Sadikhova /

Iraqi Sunni parties, including Vice President Tareq al Hashim's political movement, are unlikely to refuse to participate in the parliamentary elections in January. Meanwhile, Kurdish MPs are likely to boycott, Iraqi Foundation for Development and Democracy (IFDD) head Ghassan Attiyah told Trend News today over the phone from Baghdad.

Leadership of the Azerbaijani Presidential Media Development State Support Fund will visit Austria.

The fund's leadership will pay a business visit to Vienna on Nov.22-29, the Fund told Trend News.

The leader of a group which plotted to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago has been sentenced to 13-and-a-half years in prison, BBC reported.

Despite a flagging economy and growing indications of a weak recovery, U.S. stocks continue to climb at a steady clip. But analysts said the market is overvalued and headed for a drop, Xinhua reported.

Italy has the second oldest population in the European Union (EU) countries, with one in six citizens aged over 65, according to an Italian National Statistics ' Office (Istat) report on the county's state released on Friday, Xinhua reported.

The dollar rose against most major currencies on Friday as recent economic reports reduced investors' risk appetite, Xinhua reported.

The "unspeakable violations " that happen almost everyday to children all across the globe need to be a thing of the past, chief of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Ann Veneman said here on Friday, Xinhua reported.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday that it was assessing the public health significance of a mutation of the pandemic H1N1 virus detected in Norway and some other countries, Xinhua reporeted.

Over seven million children from 101 countries voted Nelson Mandela and his wife Graca Machel as "Decade Child Rights Heroes", Press TV reported.

FC Barcelona became the latest victim of the A/H1N1 swine flu virus after Toure and Eric Abidal had been diagnosed of the disease on Friday, Xinhua reported.

About 200 European football games are under investigation in a match-fixing inquiry, German prosecutors have said, BBC reported.

Engineers have sent proton particles all the way round the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) machine for the first time in more than a year, BBC reported.