Baku / 30.04.18 / Turan: On April 29, the Iraqi court sentenced 29 foreign citizens to life imprisonment for participating in terrorist activities as part of ISIS. According to the Al-Guds-al-Arabiya TV channel, six women from Azerbaijan are among those convicted, besides 19 citizens of Russia and 4 citizens of Tajikistan.
At the trial, all the women declared that they had arrived in Iraq with their husbands who forced them to participate in the terrorist movement. The women were captured during the fighting for the city of Telafur. -16D-
Politics
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The agreement reached at the COP29 climate summit has been hailed by UN Secretary-General António Guterres as a critical step in global efforts to combat climate change. Speaking after the conclusion of high-stakes negotiations, Guterres emphasized that the agreement is pivotal for maintaining the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, a threshold considered crucial to preventing the worst impacts of climate change.
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On 23 November at the COP29 climate conference in Baku, eco-activists from different countries held a protest action against the failure of countries to agree on climate finance.
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On the eve of the closing of the COP29 climate conference in Baku, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has drawn attention to the criminal cases of journalists detained in Azerbaijan.
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Negotiations at the 29th session of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Baku have been extended until November 24, a source in the UNFCCC Secretariat told the Turan news agency. According to the source, participants aim to finalize and sign the concluding documents by that date.
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