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Azerbaijan has ordered the BBC to shut its office in the country, officials in Baku said Thursday, in what the British broadcaster denounced as a “move against press freedom.” Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has long faced accusations of stifling the media and persecuting political opponents in the energy-rich Caucasus nation. Foreign ministry spokesman Ayahan Hajizade…
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BAKU: India has rejected the new USD 300 billion climate finance deal for the Global South, which has been agreed upon and adopted at the United Nations COP29 Summit in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku. India raised the objection after the financial package had been adopted, saying that it was too little and too late. Chandni Raina,…
Deep in the Caspian Sea, around 100 kilometres off the coast of Azerbaijan’s capital Baku, lies Neft Daslari, the world’s oldest offshore oil platform. Also known as “Oil Rocks”, this vast, rusting city has been shrouded in mystery for decades. “The degree of mystery was enormously high,” filmmaker Marc Wolfensberger, who first discovered Neft Daslari…
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