Here’s your AnewZ Daily Brief for 29 September 2026, with the latest from Azerbaijan, from $10.8 billion in investment deals and Formula 1 drama to diplomacy and preparations for major FIFA tournaments.
The two-day Azerbaijan International Investment Forum concluded in Baku, bringing together global investors, financial institutions and business leaders to discuss investment, connectivity, energy, technology and economic diversification.
The forum ended with 23 agreements and documents covering planned investment projects worth $10.8 billion across sectors including artificial intelligence, renewable energy, construction, the digital economy, industry, agriculture and finance.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev met FIFA President Gianni Infantino in Baku on 29 September to discuss football development in the country and opportunities for further cooperation.
Aliyev highlighted preparations for the FIFA U-15 World Cup and Festival, which Azerbaijan will host for the first time in October, as well as the FIFA U-20 World Cup in 2027.
Infantino said the U-15 event would attract international attention, while both sides highlighted recent progress in Azerbaijani football and cooperation between Azerbaijan and FIFA.
George Russell won the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in Baku on 26 September, holding off Red Bull’s Max Verstappen by just0.196 seconds in a dramatic 51-lap race.
The Mercedes driver converted pole position into victory despite two safety car periods and late pressure from Verstappen, while Red Bull’s Isack Hadjar finished third.
The win marked Russell’s third victory of the 2026 season and the eighth of his Formula 1 career.
Azerbaijan has marked the sixth anniversary of the start of the Patriotic War, which began on 27 September 2020 and lasted 44 days.
The conflict ended with a trilateral statement signed by the leaders of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russia on 10 November 2020, after Azerbaijan regained control of territories that had remained outside its control for almost three decades.
A key turning point came on 8 November, when President Ilham Aliyev announced that Azerbaijani forces had taken control of Shusha. Azerbaijan later said it had restored full state sovereignty across its internationally recognised territory.
The 81st session of the UN General Assembly brought world leaders and senior officials to New York to discuss major international issues.
Speaking at the gathering, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov said Azerbaijan has achieved “de facto peace” with Armenia following the Washington Peace Summit and the initialling of an agreement on peace and interstate relations.
He said Azerbaijan’s peace agenda had helped turn the South Caucasus into an “anchor of stability, connectivity, and tangible economic dividends.”
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Yemen’s Houthis have claimed responsibility for the recent drone and missile strikes on Saudi Aramco facilities in Dhahran and Riyadh and at King Khalid International Airport in Saudi Arabia, vowing to carry out more attacks in the coming days.
The Saudi-led coalition said early Thursday that it intercepted and destroyed a drone over Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province.
Ukraine's soldiers have had their access to Starlink satellite internet restricted. Kyiv's troops use the terminals, made by Elon Musk's SpaceX, to pilot drones. A source in Ukraine's Defence Ministry said the restrictions would make it harder for Kyiv's army to down Russian drones.
Ukraine is set to restart attacks on Russian oil refineries following a two-day pause, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, amid growing tensions with Washington over energy strikes and U.S. military support.
Kenya has confirmed a second case of Ebola, intensifying efforts to prevent the spread of the virus after the country recorded its first-ever infection earlier this month.
Ukraine has almost run out of Patriot interceptor missiles, leaving the country vulnerable to Russian ballistic missile attacks, U.S. newspaper The Washington Post reported on Friday. The country has just two Patriot missile remaining, a Ukrainian official spoken to by the newspaper said.
A 16-year-old shooter opened fire on Thursday at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon in the United States, killing four people, including three children, before being killed by an armed member of the community who had pursued the assailant into the school, police said.
France is preparing for a fresh wave of nationwide demonstrations this weekend as rising living costs, education concerns and growing political tensions converge into one of the most significant protest movements seen in the country in recent years.
British Defence Secretary Wes Streeting has called for closer cooperation between the United Kingdom and the United States, arguing that the transatlantic partnership remains essential to addressing modern security challenges and maintaining stability across Europe.
Ukraine is set to restart attacks on Russian oil refineries following a two-day pause, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, amid growing tensions with Washington over energy strikes and U.S. military support.
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