During COP29's side event 'Unveiling the Money Trail: Climate Finance Accountability through Local Tracking and Validation' Financing the fight against climate change doesn’t come cheap. As the world grapples with increasingly severe climate impacts, the financial toll is staggering. Trillions of...
BAKU, Azerbaijan – As existential threats on vulnerable countries are escalating, one of the major action agendas being advanced in this year’s 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will be operationalization of the...
BAKU, Azerbaijan – The host country of the 29th Conference of the Parties for Climate Change (COP29) is eyeing energy as well as trade bilateral cooperation with the Philippines, according to the chief foreign policy advisor of Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev. In an interview during an official...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. congratulated Filipino Olympian Carlos Edriel Yulo for winning two gold medals at the FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup Series in Baku, Azerbaijan, over the weekend. In a tweet, the President described Yulo's victory as a "shining moment" as he urged the...
TEHRAN, Iran - A gunman stormed Azerbaijan's embassy in Tehran on Friday, killing the mission's head of security in an attack Iran said was motivated by personal reasons but Baku labelled an act of "terrorism". Azerbaijan's foreign ministry said "responsibility" for the shooting, which also wounded...
BAKU, Azerbaijan - Azerbaijan on Friday said it was evacuating staff from its embassy in Tehran, blaming Iran for a "terrorist" attack in which the head of security was killed and two guards wounded. Tehran's police chief said the man who carried out the attack was motivated by "personal" reasons....
Filipino International Master Daniel Quizon pulled off a solid eighth-place finish in the tough Azerbaijan International Online Blitz Chess Tournament Sunday. Seeded 24th in a stacked, 160-player field, the 16-year-old Quizon made a good account of himself by scoring seven points out of the...
