On November 4 Azerbaijani Shiites mark the main mourning - Ashura. All mosques hold ceremonies and read prayers.
The mourning is associated with the tragic death of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad and the son of Imam Ali, near Karbala, Iraq in 680 AD.
On Ashura the believers mourn Imam Hussein and his supporters, who were killed in an unequal battle with the forces of Umayyad. Mosques read special prayers - Khutbah, people dress in black and beat their breasts (which symbolizes the willingness to give their lives for Islam), and perform funeral chants, while mournful music is sounded.
In some regions, the Shiites inflict wounds with a sword or chains to themselves.
In mosques believers also perform the ceremony Shahsey-Vahsey, symbolizing the tragic death of Hussein and his supporters.
On the streets of Baku impromptu funeral ceremonies can be seen, where everyone can participate in Ehsan - religious meal consisting of tea and sweets. -02D-
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Georgian law enforcement has detained an ethnic Azerbaijani in Marneuli who gained international attention through a viral video showing him stuffing a stack of ballots into a voting box, according to Shalva Papuashvili, a member of the political council of the "Georgian Dream" party and the parliament chair.
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On October 28, Baku experienced rain once again. As with five days earlier, streets and homes in the capital flooded. Fortunately, unlike the previous incident, no fatalities occurred this time in waterlogged tunnels. (On October 22, two people drowned in a tunnel flooded with rainwater in Sabunchu district.)
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Two women have died from mushroom poisoning in the Khachmaz region, located 200 km north of Baku. According to Azar Magsudov, the head of the toxicology department at the Clinical Medical Center (CMC), the victims were 46 and 41 years old.
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Changeable weather is expected in Baku and the Absheron Peninsula; rain is possible in some areas in the evening and fog in the morning and evening. Northwest wind will change to the southeast.
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