Azerbaijan President says crashed plane was shot at from Russia
Baku, Azerbaijan/Moscow, Russia Reuters Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Sunday that a passenger plane that crashed last week, killing 38 people, had been damaged by accidental shooting from the ground in Russia, adding that some in Russia had lied about the cause of the disaster. Russian President Vladimir Putin apologised on Saturday to Aliyev […]
Russia’s Putin apologises to Azerbaijan over “tragic” airliner crash
Moscow, Russia/Baku, Azerbaijan Reuters President Vladimir Putin on Saturday apologised to Azerbaijan’s leader for what the Kremlin called a “tragic incident” over Russia in which an Azerbaijan Airlines plane crashed after Russian air defences were fired against Ukrainian drones. The extremely rare publicised apology from Putin was the closest Moscow had come to accepting some […]
People on crashed Azerbaijani plane say they heard bangs before it went down
Baku, Azerbaijan Reuters Two passengers and one crew member on the Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan told Reuters that they heard at least one loud bang as it approached its original destination of Grozny in southern Russia. Flight J2-8243 crashed on Wednesday in a ball of fire near the city of Aktau in […]
Azerbaijan Airlines plane crashes in Kazakhstan, killing 38
Astana, Kazakhstan/Tbilisi, Georgia/Baku, Azerbaijan Reuters An Embraer passenger jet crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, killing 38 people, after diverting from an area of Russia that Moscow has recently defended against Ukrainian drone attacks. Twenty-nine survivors received hospital treatment. A drone view shows the crash site of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger […]
Addressing climate change: Contentious COP29 deal shows climate cooperation fraying at edges
VALERIE VOLCOVICI, RICHARD VALDMANIS and KARIN STROHECKER, of Reuters, report on reactions to the hard-fought COP29 climate financing deal…
Developing nations blast $US300 billion COP29 climate deal as insufficient
Baku, Azerbaijan Reuters Countries at the COP29 summit in Baku adopted a $US300 billion a year global finance target on Sunday to help poorer nations cope with impacts of climate change, a deal its intended recipients criticised as woefully insufficient. The agreement, clinched in overtime at the two-week conference in Azerbaijan’s capital, was meant to […]
COP29 draft deal would have rich nations pay $US300 billion in climate finance
Baku, Azerbaijan Reuters Developed nations should pay $US300 billion a year by 2035 to help poorer countries deal with climate change, according to a new draft deal from UN climate talks published early on Sunday, after an earlier target of $US250 billion was rejected. Reuters previously reported that the European Union, the United States and […]
Climate funding divisions laid bare as COP29 deadline looms
Baku, Azerbaijan Reuters Division and discontent spilled into the open on Thursday at a UN climate summit in Baku, sparked by a proposal for a new global finance deal which offered two vastly different options and left no one happy as the closing deadline neared. The key goal of COP29 is to agree how much […]
More than 50 countries sign UN sustainable tourism declaration
Baku, Azerbaijan Reuters More than 50 governments have signed a UN declaration to make tourism around the globe more climate friendly, the United Nations said on Wednesday, in what it hailed as a major achievement of the climate summit in Azerbaijan. “At COP29 we have achieved today an historic milestone by being included in the […]
Climate finance talks face “hardest” stage as COP29 nears end-game
Baku, Azerbaijan Reuters Countries at the COP29 climate summit were warned on Wednesday that the “hardest part” was about to start in talks over how much money should be provided to developing countries to help them cope with climate change. Figuring out what form that funding takes, who pays and how much is the main […]