The first international football break since this summer’s World Cup gets under way this week, with Azerbaijan, Türkiye and the four UK home nations all back in action.This autumn’s opening international window is longer than usual, running from 21 September to 6 October after the traditional Septem...
Formula 1 returns to Azerbaijan at the end of September, when some of the world’s fastest drivers take on the spectacular and notoriously unpredictable streets of Baku.The 2026 Azerbaijan Grand Prix will be staged on Saturday, 26 September, a day earlier than the traditional Sunday race slot. The ch...
Organisations working to protect people from corporate abuses have lost an average of 40% of their funding in just two years, according to a new global survey, with one in eight warning they could be forced to close.The findings, published on Wednesday, 16 September, come from a survey by Swedish hu...
A senior Azerbaijani diplomat in London has accused The Guardian of presenting a misleading and one-sided picture of the former Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict in its review of a new documentary about Karabakh.Günel Salimova, Counsellor at the Embassy of Azerbaijan in London, challenged the newspap...
Azerbaijan is again acting as an intermediary between Türkiye and Israel as relations between the two regional powers deteriorate, with their competing interests in Syria raising growing fears of an accidental – or potentially deliberate – military confrontation.Baku has been using its unusually str...
The Republic of Azerbaijan has launched a defamation lawsuit against CNN in the United States, accusing the American news giant of falsely reporting that Baku allowed Israeli forces to use Azerbaijani territory to conduct military and intelligence operations against neighbouring Iran.The case centre...
Azerbaijan is hoping one of its most cherished national symbols can also become a major international business success, as the country expands production and exports of its celebrated pomegranates.A report by Euronews Business last week highlighted how Azerbaijan is seeking to turn the fruit – known...
Azerbaijan has claimed that diplomatic pressure from Baku persuaded Israel to halt the parliamentary process needed to fully recognise the mass deaths and deportations of Ottoman Armenians during the First World War as genocide.The Israeli cabinet unanimously approved a proposal by Foreign Minister...
The President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, has congratulated Andy Burham for becoming the new British Prime Minister (PM). In the letter to PM Burnham, the Azerbaijani leader emphasised “the comprehensive development of Azerbaijan-United Kingdom relations based on rich and good traditions”, inc...
Azerbaijan’s leader, Ilham Aliyev, had the opportunity to meet with King Charles III earlier this week. The two men were pictured talking on the sidelines of the European Political Community Summit that took place at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire.The British Embassy in Baku posted a picture of thei...
