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Azerbaijan’s policy of active neutrality is helping stabilize the South Caucasus amid rising regional tensions, complex security challenges, and shifting alliances, according to Georgian Iranologist Vasiliy Papava.
#Azerbaijan #SouthCaucasus #Neutrality #Geopolitics #Stability
#Azerbaijan #SouthCaucasus #Neutrality #Geopolitics #Stability
Vasiliy Papava: Azerbaijan’s active neutrality helps prevent chaos in the South Caucasus - INTERVIEW | News.az
The South Caucasus and the Middle East are entering a period of heightened uncertainty, marked by rising tensions between Iran and Israel, shifting re...
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December 23, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Azerbaijan’s policy of active neutrality is helping stabilize the South Caucasus amid rising regional tensions, complex security challenges, and shifting alliances, according to Georgian Iranologist Vasiliy Papava.
#Azerbaijan #SouthCaucasus #Neutrality #Geopolitics #Stability
#Azerbaijan #SouthCaucasus #Neutrality #Geopolitics #Stability
Iraq is trading oil for water as drought pushes the country into a severe crisis. Falling levels of the Tigris and Euphrates forced Baghdad to turn to Türkiye, funding dams and water infrastructure with oil revenues.
#Iraq #WaterCrisis #Oil #Climate #Türkiye #Geopolitics
#Iraq #WaterCrisis #Oil #Climate #Türkiye #Geopolitics
Iraq trades oil for water | News.az
The Middle East has always lived with water constraints, but what is unfolding now marks a qualitative shift. Iran’s prolonged droughts, record-...
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December 23, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Iraq is trading oil for water as drought pushes the country into a severe crisis. Falling levels of the Tigris and Euphrates forced Baghdad to turn to Türkiye, funding dams and water infrastructure with oil revenues.
#Iraq #WaterCrisis #Oil #Climate #Türkiye #Geopolitics
#Iraq #WaterCrisis #Oil #Climate #Türkiye #Geopolitics
China-Africa cooperation urged to boost the livestock sector — investment, tech exchange, and food security on the agenda.
Could this reshape agricultural ties across continents — or is it just rhetoric?
Could this reshape agricultural ties across continents — or is it just rhetoric?
China-Africa cooperation urged to boost livestock sector | News.az
Officials and experts on Friday called for deeper China-Africa cooperation to unlock Africa's vast animal resources potential, highlighting science an...
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December 21, 2025 at 10:57 AM
China-Africa cooperation urged to boost the livestock sector — investment, tech exchange, and food security on the agenda.
Could this reshape agricultural ties across continents — or is it just rhetoric?
Could this reshape agricultural ties across continents — or is it just rhetoric?
A plane crash has killed 7 people, including former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle.
Tragic loss, and questions about aviation safety always follow such events.
What measures can help prevent deadly small-plane accidents?
Tragic loss, and questions about aviation safety always follow such events.
What measures can help prevent deadly small-plane accidents?
Plane crash kills 7, including former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle | News.az
Seven people were killed Thursday in the crash of a Cessna 550 business jet in Statesville, North Carolina, including former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle...
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December 21, 2025 at 10:49 AM
A plane crash has killed 7 people, including former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle.
Tragic loss, and questions about aviation safety always follow such events.
What measures can help prevent deadly small-plane accidents?
Tragic loss, and questions about aviation safety always follow such events.
What measures can help prevent deadly small-plane accidents?
France’s quiet legalization of PMCs risks exporting instability to the South Caucasus.
Is Paris opening a backdoor for private guns and geopolitical games — while the region pays the price?
Is Paris opening a backdoor for private guns and geopolitical games — while the region pays the price?
France’s quiet legalization of PMCs could destabilize the South Caucasus | News.az
France’s decision to legalize private military companies marks a turning point not only in its own security doctrine, but potentially in the geo...
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December 21, 2025 at 10:46 AM
France’s quiet legalization of PMCs risks exporting instability to the South Caucasus.
Is Paris opening a backdoor for private guns and geopolitical games — while the region pays the price?
Is Paris opening a backdoor for private guns and geopolitical games — while the region pays the price?
“He chose others over himself” — the brave story of a 10-year-old who put others before himself in a life-threatening moment.
What does real courage look like to you — and who inspires you most?
What does real courage look like to you — and who inspires you most?
He chose others over himself: The story of a 10-year-old hero | News.az
The tragedy that unfolded on December 16 at the Uspenskaya Secondary School in the village of Gorki-2 in Russia’s Moscow region has become one o...
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December 21, 2025 at 10:42 AM
“He chose others over himself” — the brave story of a 10-year-old who put others before himself in a life-threatening moment.
What does real courage look like to you — and who inspires you most?
What does real courage look like to you — and who inspires you most?
A direct Israel–Iran confrontation no longer looks unthinkable.
If a strike happens, it won’t stay bilateral — the region and global markets will feel it immediately.
Are we closer to deterrence or to a wider war?
If a strike happens, it won’t stay bilateral — the region and global markets will feel it immediately.
Are we closer to deterrence or to a wider war?
Israel prepares for a direct strike on Iran: what comes next? | News.az
For Israel, Iranian nuclear program is neither distant nor abstract. It is perceived as an existential threat shaped by geography, history, and strate...
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December 19, 2025 at 8:24 AM
A direct Israel–Iran confrontation no longer looks unthinkable.
If a strike happens, it won’t stay bilateral — the region and global markets will feel it immediately.
Are we closer to deterrence or to a wider war?
If a strike happens, it won’t stay bilateral — the region and global markets will feel it immediately.
Are we closer to deterrence or to a wider war?
Everyone talks about de-dollarization — but who is actually leaving the dollar?
Trade deals, reserves, and politics tell different stories.
Is this a real shift in global finance or just powerful rhetoric?
Trade deals, reserves, and politics tell different stories.
Is this a real shift in global finance or just powerful rhetoric?
De-dollarization: a real global trend or a loud political myth? | News.az
At first glance, the arguments in favor of de-dollarization appear persuasive. The share of the U.S. dollar in global foreign exchange reserves has gr...
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December 19, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Everyone talks about de-dollarization — but who is actually leaving the dollar?
Trade deals, reserves, and politics tell different stories.
Is this a real shift in global finance or just powerful rhetoric?
Trade deals, reserves, and politics tell different stories.
Is this a real shift in global finance or just powerful rhetoric?
Turning frozen assets into a weapon — the West is using seized Russian funds to finance the Ukraine war.
Strategic tool or dangerous precedent?
What does this mean for international law and future conflicts?
Strategic tool or dangerous precedent?
What does this mean for international law and future conflicts?
Turning frozen assets into a weapon: How the West is financing the Ukraine war | News.az
The West likes to present itself as the moral arbiter of global order. Yet its latest gambit — indefinitely freezing Russian assets — is l...
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December 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Turning frozen assets into a weapon — the West is using seized Russian funds to finance the Ukraine war.
Strategic tool or dangerous precedent?
What does this mean for international law and future conflicts?
Strategic tool or dangerous precedent?
What does this mean for international law and future conflicts?
Azerbaijan has launched its first shipment of petroleum products to Armenia, with video released.
A practical step in economic cooperation — can trade help build trust and stability in the region?
A practical step in economic cooperation — can trade help build trust and stability in the region?
Azerbaijan launches petroleum products shipment to Armenia - VIDEO | News.az
A total of 1,220 tons of AI-95 automotive gasoline, loaded into 22 railcars, is being transported by a freight train operated by Azerbaijan Railways C...
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December 18, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Azerbaijan has launched its first shipment of petroleum products to Armenia, with video released.
A practical step in economic cooperation — can trade help build trust and stability in the region?
A practical step in economic cooperation — can trade help build trust and stability in the region?
The killing of a Tajik child in Russia’s Moscow region alarms migrant communities.
How do we balance justice, safety, and social cohesion in diverse societies?
How do we balance justice, safety, and social cohesion in diverse societies?
Killing of Tajik child in Moscow region alarms migrant communities | News.az
The killing of a 10-year-old schoolboy of Tajik origin in the Moscow region has prompted strong official reactions from both Russia and Tajikistan, wh...
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December 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The killing of a Tajik child in Russia’s Moscow region alarms migrant communities.
How do we balance justice, safety, and social cohesion in diverse societies?
How do we balance justice, safety, and social cohesion in diverse societies?
The UK and Azerbaijan are deepening their strategic partnership across key sectors — from energy and investment to security cooperation.
What could this mean for regional stability and global ties?
What could this mean for regional stability and global ties?
UK and Azerbaijan deepen strategic partnership across key sectors | News.az
Since the United Kingdom and Azerbaijan upgraded their relations to the level of a strategic partnership in August 2025, both sides have taken concret...
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December 17, 2025 at 7:13 PM
The UK and Azerbaijan are deepening their strategic partnership across key sectors — from energy and investment to security cooperation.
What could this mean for regional stability and global ties?
What could this mean for regional stability and global ties?
Amazon enters the OpenAI race, challenging Google and Microsoft’s AI grip — a new chapter in the tech arms race.
Is this competition good for innovation … or just another battle between giants?
Is this competition good for innovation … or just another battle between giants?
Amazon enters OpenAI race, challenging Google and Microsoft’s AI grip | News.az
As reported by News.Az, citing Reuters, Amazon is considering an investment of around $10 billion, although the talks remain at an early and fluid sta...
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December 17, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Amazon enters the OpenAI race, challenging Google and Microsoft’s AI grip — a new chapter in the tech arms race.
Is this competition good for innovation … or just another battle between giants?
Is this competition good for innovation … or just another battle between giants?
China’s growing role could reshape Saudi Arabia’s future — from energy to tech and geopolitics.
Is Riyadh drifting from traditional Western ties toward a new Sino-Middle Eastern axis?
Is Riyadh drifting from traditional Western ties toward a new Sino-Middle Eastern axis?
What China’s growing role means for Saudi Arabia’s future | News.az
In recent years, China–Saudi relations have undergone a qualitative shift. What once functioned primarily as a pragmatic energy partnership has ...
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December 17, 2025 at 5:59 AM
China’s growing role could reshape Saudi Arabia’s future — from energy to tech and geopolitics.
Is Riyadh drifting from traditional Western ties toward a new Sino-Middle Eastern axis?
Is Riyadh drifting from traditional Western ties toward a new Sino-Middle Eastern axis?
MetaX’s IPO exploded as China challenges Western tech leadership — a 700% surge that signals Beijing’s growing power in AI chips and innovation.
Is this the start of a real tech shift — or just market hype?
Is this the start of a real tech shift — or just market hype?
MetaX IPO explosion: China challenges Western tech leadership | News.az
The rally reflects growing investor enthusiasm for China’s fast-expanding drive to develop home-grown artificial intelligence chips and reduce r...
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December 17, 2025 at 5:56 AM
MetaX’s IPO exploded as China challenges Western tech leadership — a 700% surge that signals Beijing’s growing power in AI chips and innovation.
Is this the start of a real tech shift — or just market hype?
Is this the start of a real tech shift — or just market hype?
Azerbaijan–Türkiye military and security ties are growing stronger — a blueprint for regional stability or a new axis reshaping power in the South Caucasus and beyond?
Is this cooperation stabilizing — or shifting the balance?
Is this cooperation stabilizing — or shifting the balance?
Azerbaijan-Türkiye mutual military security – a positive blueprint for regional stability | News.az
Amid rising geopolitical shifts and evolving military doctrines, Azerbaijan and Türkiye's decision to further strengthen their mutual mil...
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December 17, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Azerbaijan–Türkiye military and security ties are growing stronger — a blueprint for regional stability or a new axis reshaping power in the South Caucasus and beyond?
Is this cooperation stabilizing — or shifting the balance?
Is this cooperation stabilizing — or shifting the balance?
Russia is turning to Indian labor as Central Asian migration declines.
A silent shift with big consequences.
Will it work?
A silent shift with big consequences.
Will it work?
How India is replacing Central Asian migrants in Russia | News.az
In recent months, migrant workers from Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan have increasingly reported the blocking of their bank cards in Russia, le...
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December 16, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Russia is turning to Indian labor as Central Asian migration declines.
A silent shift with big consequences.
Will it work?
A silent shift with big consequences.
Will it work?
A bus crash in central Iran has killed 13 people, according to officials.
Tragic accidents like this raise broader questions about road safety and emergency response.
Tragic accidents like this raise broader questions about road safety and emergency response.
13 killed in bus crash in central Iran | News.az
A bus crash on the Esfahan-Natanz highway on Tuesday killed 13 people after an intercity coach reportedly swerved into the opposite lane and collided ...
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December 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
A bus crash in central Iran has killed 13 people, according to officials.
Tragic accidents like this raise broader questions about road safety and emergency response.
Tragic accidents like this raise broader questions about road safety and emergency response.
Azerbaijan is moving to ban e-cigarettes as part of new public health measures.
Supportive policy or controversial move — what do you think? 👇
Supportive policy or controversial move — what do you think? 👇
Azerbaijan to ban electronic cigarettes | News.az
The ban is proposed through the addition of a new article to the Law “On Tobacco and Tobacco Products.” The proposed amendments were discu...
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December 16, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Azerbaijan is moving to ban e-cigarettes as part of new public health measures.
Supportive policy or controversial move — what do you think? 👇
Supportive policy or controversial move — what do you think? 👇
$3.12 trillion and rising.
UAE net wealth reaches a new record, highlighting the country’s growing global economic weight.
What’s next?
UAE net wealth reaches a new record, highlighting the country’s growing global economic weight.
What’s next?
UAE net wealth hits record $3.12 trillion | News.az
Financial wealth increased by 9.5%, climbing from $1.05 trillion to $1.15 trillion, while the value of real assets surged 10.2%, reaching $2.1...
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December 16, 2025 at 11:11 AM
$3.12 trillion and rising.
UAE net wealth reaches a new record, highlighting the country’s growing global economic weight.
What’s next?
UAE net wealth reaches a new record, highlighting the country’s growing global economic weight.
What’s next?
Can transit through Armenia actually benefit Azerbaijan?
Analyst Andrey Petrov explains why this option deserves serious consideration amid shifting regional realities.
Agree or disagree? 👇
Analyst Andrey Petrov explains why this option deserves serious consideration amid shifting regional realities.
Agree or disagree? 👇
Andrey Petrov: Transit through Armenia more advantageous for Azerbaijan - INTERVIEW | News.az
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s outreach to Germany, his escalating tensions with the Armenian Apostolic Church, and shifting transit ...
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December 16, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Can transit through Armenia actually benefit Azerbaijan?
Analyst Andrey Petrov explains why this option deserves serious consideration amid shifting regional realities.
Agree or disagree? 👇
Analyst Andrey Petrov explains why this option deserves serious consideration amid shifting regional realities.
Agree or disagree? 👇
Why is the right of Azerbaijanis to return to Armenia rarely discussed internationally?
Jakub Korejba argues it must be placed on the global agenda.
Do double standards still prevail?
Jakub Korejba argues it must be placed on the global agenda.
Do double standards still prevail?
Jakub Korejba: Azerbaijanis' right to return to Armenia must be part of global agenda - INTERVIEW | News.az
Recently, Baku hosted the third international conference, titled “Cultural Heritage and the Right to Return,” which brought together aroun...
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December 16, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Why is the right of Azerbaijanis to return to Armenia rarely discussed internationally?
Jakub Korejba argues it must be placed on the global agenda.
Do double standards still prevail?
Jakub Korejba argues it must be placed on the global agenda.
Do double standards still prevail?
An era ends: Volkswagen to close its Dresden plant after 88 years. Costs, competition, transition to EVs — what’s driving this decision?
Volkswagen to close Dresden plant, first in 88 years | News.az
German automotive giant Volkswagen will close a manufacturing plant in Dresden on Tuesday, marking the first time in its 88-year history that the comp...
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December 16, 2025 at 8:57 AM
An era ends: Volkswagen to close its Dresden plant after 88 years. Costs, competition, transition to EVs — what’s driving this decision?
Iran is seeking a major reset in relations with Azerbaijan, analysts say.
What’s driving Tehran’s shift — regional realities, pragmatism, or strategic necessity?
Can this reset last?
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What’s driving Tehran’s shift — regional realities, pragmatism, or strategic necessity?
Can this reset last?
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Iran seeks major reset with Azerbaijan, analyst says | News.az
In an interview with News.Az, Russian Iranologist Lana Ravandi-Fadai discussed Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi’s recent visit to Azerbai...
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December 16, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Iran is seeking a major reset in relations with Azerbaijan, analysts say.
What’s driving Tehran’s shift — regional realities, pragmatism, or strategic necessity?
Can this reset last?
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What’s driving Tehran’s shift — regional realities, pragmatism, or strategic necessity?
Can this reset last?
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Digital systems are transforming SOCAR’s energy operations — from data-driven decisions to smarter infrastructure.
Can technology redefine energy efficiency in Azerbaijan?
Your thoughts 👇
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Can technology redefine energy efficiency in Azerbaijan?
Your thoughts 👇
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SOCAR and modern technology: How digital systems are reshaping energy operations | News.az
Reliability is not determined solely by political stability, resource availability, or signed agreements. From SOCAR’s perspective, it primarily...
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December 16, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Digital systems are transforming SOCAR’s energy operations — from data-driven decisions to smarter infrastructure.
Can technology redefine energy efficiency in Azerbaijan?
Your thoughts 👇
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Can technology redefine energy efficiency in Azerbaijan?
Your thoughts 👇
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