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Top climate negotiators urge tougher targets, but outsiders say they aren't cutting back themselves

Sep. 26, 2024 22:14 PM EDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A trio of leaders of international climate negotiations on Thursday urged colleagues to step up efforts to fight global warming, but outside groups and endangered nations told those leaders to look in the mirror, take their own advice — and stop pumping out fossil fuels. ...

Romania, Hungary, Georgia, and Azerbaijan launch venture to install power line under the Black Sea

Sep. 03, 2024 09:54 AM EDT

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania, Hungary, Georgia and Azerbaijan launched a joint venture Tuesday to install a power line under the Black Sea aimed at bringing more renewable energy into the European Union from the eastern Caucasus. The project, approved by leaders of the four...

Azerbaijan holds a parliamentary election expected to retain the presidential party's dominance

Sep. 01, 2024 11:21 AM EDT

Polls closed Sunday evening in Azerbaijan's snap parliamentary election, the first since it regained full control of a former breakaway territory in a lightning offensive last year. Previous elections since independence from the Soviet Union in the 1990s have not been regarded as...

Day after Putin's visit, Azerbaijan applies to join Russia and China in the BRICS alliance

Aug. 20, 2024 13:06 PM EDT

BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Azerbaijan formally applied Tuesday to join the BRICS bloc of developing economies, a day after Russian leader Vladimir Putin's visit to the oil-rich South Caucasus country to shore up regional ties and secure Moscow’s under-pressure trade routes. The...

Putin meets Azerbaijani president in Baku to strengthen ties as regional tensions persist

Aug. 19, 2024 23:03 PM EDT

BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Russian leader Vladimir Putin held talks on Monday with his Azerbaijani counterpart as part of a two-day trip to secure Moscow’s under-pressure trade routes and shore up ties in the South Caucasus. Business links were high on the agenda as Putin and...