London/08.11.18/Turan: A woman who spent £16m at Harrods and was arrested as part of the UK's first Unexplained Wealth Order will be freed on bail, BBC reports.
Zamira Hajiyeva, 55, is the wife of an ex-state banker who is serving a 15-year prison sentence for embezzlement in their home country of Azerbaijan. She was arrested last week and faces two charges of embezzlement.
At a High Court hearing on Thursday she was released on bail pending attempts to extradite her to Azerbaijan.-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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