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.”
Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) will meet in Paris on Monday to assess whether the Democrats' gains in the U.S. midterm election...
At least seven people have been killed and more than 125 injured after two passenger trains collided in Egypt’s Giza province, south of Cairo...
A 24-year-old man who killed six people in Poland’s central city of Krakow had advanced military-style shooting skills, according to a s...
Poland has declared two days of national mourning after a gunman opened fire in Kraków's historic main square. Investigators are examining possible far-right influences and the discovery of three bodies at the suspect's home.
Monday marks the second of two days of national mourning in Poland as police bolstered security after six people were killed in a mass shooting in Kraków.
Russian forces launched a ballistic missile attack on Kyiv early on Saturday, 7 November, injuring two people and damaging residential buildings, just three days before U.S.-led peace talks with Ukraine and Russia in Abu Dhabi.
The Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen's Houthis said it intercepted and destroyed two ballistic missiles fired by the Iran-aligned group towards Riyadh on Sunday (8 November), after loud booms were heard in the Saudi capital. The Aramco building was damaged by falling debris.
New Zealand’s ruling centre-right National Party has taken a narrow lead over the opposition Labour Party in Saturday’s general election, with the country’s current three-party coalition projected to retain power.
Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) will meet in Paris on Monday to assess whether the Democrats' gains in the U.S. midterm elections could influence President Donald Trump's foreign policy, particularly on Ukraine and the Middle East.
At least seven people have been killed and more than 125 injured after two passenger trains collided in Egypt’s Giza province, south of Cairo, on Sunday.
A 24-year-old man who killed six people in Poland’s central city of Krakow had advanced military-style shooting skills, according to a spokesperson for the gun club he attended.
Monday marks the second of two days of national mourning in Poland as police bolstered security after six people were killed in a mass shooting in Kraków.
Clashes between protesters and police erupted in Paris and Marseille on Saturday as demonstrations over rising living costs and declining public services continued for a fourth consecutive weekend across France.
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