Treatment room at the retreat | Photo Credit: Alex Teuscher After finishing a small portion of mixed fruit puree in under three minutes, I wait for breakfast. As it turns out, that was breakfast. A cup of piping hot herbal tea marks the end of the first meal of the day. Tightly wrapping my bath … Read more
Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev casts his ballot during presidential election at a polling station in Khankendi, Karabakh region, Azerbaijan, on February 7, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Azerbaijanis are voting on February 7 in a snap election almost certain to give incumbent President Ilham Aliyev another seven-year term, following his government’s swift reclaiming of a … Read more
Dubai: For years, climate change has been a factor – not the only one – in wars and conflicts. Now for the first time, it’s part of a peace deal. A long-time stand-off that had turned the choice for next year’s United Nations climate talks into a melodrama and mystery resolved as part of a … Read more
Ethnic Armenians flee Nagorno-Karabakh to Kornidzor, in Armenia’s Syunik region, on Sept. 26, 2023. Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed to exchange prisoners of war and work toward signing a peace treaty in what the European Union is hailing as a major step toward peace in the long-troubled region. The two countries said in a joint … Read more
Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev. File | Photo Credit: AP The present time demands to bring the issues of women and colonialism together and amplify the role of women in the decolonisation process, Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev has said. Mr. Aliyev made the comments at a high-level conference on “Decolonisation: Women’s Empowerment and Development” in Baku … Read more
Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said Azerbaijan is “concentrating” troops on the border and also near the mountainous Karabakh region controlled by separatists. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Armenia on September 7 accused Azerbaijan of preparing a military provocation against its forces by concentrating troops along the arch-foes’ shared border and near the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh … Read more
New Delhi: Armenia has proposed a Persian Gulf-Black Sea corridor to connect Indian traders with Russia and Europe. The offer was made last week by a visiting Armenian team comprising senior officials and experts. It came at a time when Armenia’s foreign minister Ararat Mirzoyan was also visiting India. The proposed corridor-which will run parallel … Read more
Navy chiefs of Quad countries meet in Japan ahead of Malabar multilateral exercise The Navy chiefs of India, Australia, Japan, and the U.S., the four countries which comprise the Quadrilateral (Quad) grouping, met in Japan on November 5, 2022, and exchanged views on “further enhancing inter-operability” in future editions of the Malabar multilateral naval exercise. … Read more
Despite earlier claims of a ceasefire, fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia continued Wednesday, a day after nearly 100 soldiers died in clashes, according to the Azerbaijani and Armenian ministries of defense. Russia suggested it had brokered a ceasefire between Armenia and Azerbaijan in a statement Tuesday, but it proved short-lived. The Russian-mediated ceasefire was “almost … Read more
Azerbaijan on Wednesday accused Armenian forces of firing at its troops across the two countries’ international border on May 24-26. It said its own forces had not returned fire and that there had been no casualties. Ties between the two countries remain strained after Azeri troops last year drove ethnic Armenians out of territory they … Read more