
Baku hit by mass flooding as it hosts international forum
Photos and video taken by a forum participant showed that the area where the World Urban Forum was held was also flooded.

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

The renovation of 61 homes located in the Keshla village of Baku will be carried out using the state budget.

The region has been beset by historic heavy rains and associated flooding for weeks.

The landslide destroyed a third of the village of Kursebi, leaving 45 families in temporary housing.

Local authorities promise to restore access to the cut off villages by Wednesday evening.

Heavy snow has blanketed the Caucasus in recent days, leading to extreme weather conditions in western Georgia.

The US has said it will continue to fund the Georgian Institute of Earth Sciences and National Seismic Monitoring Centre at Ilia State University, days after the institute’s head warned they could cease to function within three months after losing US funding. On Monday, the institute said they had lost US funding as part of a wide-ranging freeze on US financial aid to the Georgian Government. The Seismic Monitoring Centre is part of Ilia State University, a state institution. Since the Georg