Baku / 14.12.17 / Turan: The US Embassy together with the Public Association for Regional Development of TAMAS conducts seminars on combating trafficking and gender-based violence in Ganja, Gazakh and Samukh in regions on December 12-18. Seminars are held by the program coordinator of the Vital Voices Global Partnership for Europe / Eurasia, Jaime Cordes (Jaime Cordes), supported by the US government. Seminars are held in Samukh region, Gazakh branch of Baku State University, in NGO "Bridge to the Future" in Ganja and Ganja State University.-03D-
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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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