
Azerbaijan
Baku–Tbilisi passenger rail service to resume from 26 May
Passenger rail service has been suspended for more than six years.

Passenger rail service has been suspended for more than six years.

Photos and video taken by a forum participant showed that the area where the World Urban Forum was held was also flooded.

On 14 May, Baku hosted the first General Assembly of the Global South NGOs Platform.

Dilruba Amanova’s daughter Aytaj Ahmadova (Tapdig) was one of 12 journalists detained as part of a 2024 crackdown on independent Azerbaijani media.

He now awaits permission to attend his father’s wake scheduled for 15 May.

Haji Valiyev was the chair of a veterans’ rights organisation.

‘We firmly reject the anti-Azerbaijan allegations’, Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesperson Aykhan Hajizada said in response.