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Heads of media institutions, prominent media organisations, senior representatives and renowned experts have arrived in Azerbaijan's capital for the D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation Media Forum, themed, "Promoting Dialogue, Cooperation and Regional Solidarity".
Hikmat Hajiyev, Head of the Foreign Policy Affairs Department of the Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan, opened the Forum in Baku by reading a message from President Ilham Aliyev to the participants.
The Forum includes two panel sessions: “Responsible Journalism and Digital Innovation” and “Strategic Communication and Crisis Management,” along with a workshop titled “Media Ethics in a Digitalising World: Technologies, Trends and Narratives.”
Nearly 150 delegates are participating, including 71 foreign representatives from the eight member countries and the D-8 Secretariat.
Some of the aims of the organisation are to improve the member states' position in the global economy, diversify and create new opportunities in trade relations, according to the website.
The pilot of an Indian fighter jet performing in the Dubai Air Show lost his life after the aircraft crashed during an aerial display on Friday.
Indonesian authorities evacuated more than 900 people from nearby villages and were helping 170 stranded climbers return safely after the eruption of Semeru volcano, one of the country's tallest mountains.
Germany has returned 12 royal-era cultural artefacts to Ethiopia in a ceremony in Addis Ababa, marking a formal step in ongoing cultural cooperation between the two countries.
An off-the-cuff remark by new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi that triggered Japan's biggest bust-up in years with powerful neighbour China was not meant to signal a new hardline stance.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry has announced plans by Tehran to bring together Afghanistan's neighbouring states including Russia and China in a regional meeting aimed at addressing ongoing tensions with Pakistan.
Israeli forces killed two Palestinian teenagers during an overnight raid on a town near Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, residents said, as violence surges in the territory with a growing number of dead.
The cancellation of the long-anticipated Georgia–EU Human Rights Dialogue — just days before it was set to take place — has ignited a political storm that neither side seems prepared to extinguish.
At least 25 Palestinians have been killed in four Israeli airstrikes on Wednesday in a part of Gaza under Hamas control since a shaky ceasefire took effect in October, local health authorities said.
Armenian President Vahagn Khachaturian’s official visit to Georgia is testimony to a rapidly strengthening partnership between the two neighbouring state following the initialling of the Armenia–Azerbaijan peace agreement.
The governments of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan have launched a new visa-free border trade zone at Shavat–Dashoguz that allows mutual visa-free movement for their citizens.
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