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Le Monde - EN : Azerbaijan
16 march
12h09
Frenchman sentenced to 10 years in Azerbaijan jail for ’spying’
Martin Ryan was arrested in December 2023 and went on trial in January last year, when relations between Azerbaijan and France had deteriorated to...
06 march
17h59
Azerbaijan and Armenia, both neighbors of Iran, fear regional spillover of conflict
Two Iranian drones struck Azerbaijan’s Nakhchivan region on Thursday, raising fears of an expansion of hostilities in the South Caucasus, as Baku...
05 march
18h09
Azerbaijan vows retaliation after Iran’s ’terrorist’ drone strikes
Four people were wounded on Thursday in drone attacks on an airport and near a school that President Ilham Aliyev blamed on his country’s neighbor....
20 june
19h59
JD Vance’s fruitful diplomatic tour of Armenia and Azerbaijan
The US vice president has announced several bilateral agreements, including a strategic partnership with Azerbaijan. His visit is strengthening the...
14 may
10h12
Trump inserts himself into the South Caucasus
The US president skillfully capitalized on two years of dialogue between Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders, backing the draft agreement they reached...
21 january
08h00
Peace remains elusive between Armenia and Azerbaijan
After more than three decades of conflict, a peace agreement between the two countries was announced in March. But Baku, currently in a position of...
29 december
23h02
Armenia PM hails talks with Erdogan during ’historic’ visit to Turkey
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan met Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul on Friday in a rare and symbolic step toward...
09h11
Azerbaijan imprisons its last independent journalists
Two journalists were arrested in early May and suffered abuse from the police. The annihilation of free media continues amid warming relations...
27 december
20h00
Armenia ’ready’ to sign peace agreement with Azerbaijan, but obstacles remain
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan expressed readiness on Tuesday to initial the historic agreement announced on March 13. Meanwhile, Baku has...
24 november
04h53
How Azerbaijan’s authorities set traps for independent journalists
The regime in Azerbaijan has been stepping up its repression of critical voices and seems to be using a tactic of impersonating French journalists to...
20 november
06h46
Trial of eight former Armenian leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh opens in Azerbaijan
Among them were three former presidents of the self-proclaimed ex-Republic, accused of ’war crimes’ and ’terrorism.’ Armenians fear that Baku may...
13 november
20h16
Azerbaijan accuses Russia of trying to hide causes of plane crash
Ilham Aliyev said the jet that crashed this week, killing 38 of the 67 people onboard, was hit ’by accident’ by Russia. On Saturday, Russian...
12 november
08h54
Putin apologizes for Azerbaijan plane crashing in Russia’s airspace
The Russian president on Saturday said that his country’s air defense was ’active’ when the Azerbaijani Airlines plane tried to land in Grozny....
11 november
08h26
Airline says Azerbaijan plane crashed due to ’external interference’
Russia is suspected of having mistakenly shot down the plane. The country’s aviation chief said that the aircraft had tried to land in Grozny as the...
COP29: World approves climate finance deal without satisfying most vulnerable countries
Poorer nations most at the mercy of worsening disasters dismissed a 300 billion a year pledge from wealthy historic polluters as insultingly low....
US lawmaker accuses Azerbaijan of planned ’assault’ at COP29 with around 50 ’thugs’ waiting outside hotel
Frank Pallone, an outspoken supporter of Azerbaijan’s rival Armenia, said the local police refused to take him through a back entrance but the US...
Azerbaijan President Aliyev blasts France for reaction to New Caledonia protests
President Ilham Aliyev alleged that France’s handling of protests in the French overseas territory of New Caledonia, in May, constituted ’crimes’ and...
COP29: ’Environmental and human rights issues are inextricably linked’
With the 29th Climate Change Conference beginning in Baku on November 11, a group of academics and artists calls on the international community - and...
By hosting COP29, Azerbaijan want to restore its reputation
Once again, an oil-producing nation, Azerbaijan, is hosting the United Nations Climate Change Conference. Rather than focusing on a green transition,...
COP29: Azerbaijan wants to improve its image without giving up oil
Nearly 30 dissidents, journalists and trade unionists have been arrested in recent months ahead of COP29, while the country sees the summit as an...
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