Baku/02.10.23/Turan: The Iranian Supreme Court sentenced Yasin Huseynzadeh to death for an armed attack on the Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran in January 2023. This was reported by the Azerbaijani state television channel AzTV.
On January 27, Huseynzade carried out an armed attack on the Azerbaijani Embassy in Tehran. Entering the embassy building with a machine gun, he killed one embassy employee and wounded another. A third Azerbaijani embassy security officer managed to force him out of the building. Baku regarded the incident as a terrorist attack and evacuated the embassy. –06V-
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The top U.S. diplomat Antony Blinken on Tuesday called from the plane to Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan to discuss the Middle East and the South Caucasus, TURAN's Washington correspondent who is currently traveling with the secretary of state in Europe, reports.
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BBC: The UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) has agreed to consider mutual lawsuits filed by Azerbaijan and Armenia, each accusing the other of violating the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination due to the ongoing situation in Nagorno-Karabakh.
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"A group of hydrologists and engineers from Azerbaijan and Armenia, with our active support, is working together on a comprehensive water management scheme for transboundary rivers," the U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan, Mark Libby, wrote on the U.S. Embassy's social media account on November 12.
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As the Biden administration draws to a close, Secretary of State Antony Blinken is headed on an emergency trip to Brussels to discuss how to support Ukraine with European allies.
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