Official newspapers write about Ilham Aliyev’s meetings with new foreign ambassadors.
Azadlig
After unsuccessful negotiations with Iran, Azerbaijan expands cooperation with Israel. Thus, Azerbaijan will take part in the exercises, which will be held in Israel in June 2015.
Yeni Musavat
The Working Group on Human Rights requested the Attorney General to replace the preventive measure against the human rights defender Intigam Aliyev by house arrest.
The arrest of the former Deputy Defense Minister Mehman Salimov is associated with his relationship with a member of the National Council.
The newspaper said that the massive return of unemployed people from Russia could destabilize the situation.
Bizim Yol
Ganja has been declared European Capital of Youth. However, the social situation in this city leaves much to be desired: no theaters, museums or other cultural centers.
The newspaper writes that the construction of the airport in Guba was stopped as a result of protests in Russia.
Express
The South Korean company Dong Soung Enginecrind abandoned the project of construction of a bridge 2.6 km long in the Baku Bay.
Baku Design Institute proposes to build an underwater tunnel with the length of 3.6 km instead of the bridge. Experts estimate the construction of a bridge at 1.5-1.8 billion manat and the tunnel should cost 3 billion manat.
Social
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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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