News about Ilham Aliyev

There are plenty of Iranians who are celebrating the unexpected death of the president, who has earned a reputation as a brutal, hardline executor of Supreme Leader Khamenei's will. The daughters of Minoo Majidi - a 62-year-old Iranian woman who was one of hundreds of people shot dead by security services during the nationwide fallout following the death of Mahsa Amini in September 2022 - shared a video to social media raising a glass to the president's demise. That clip was followed swiftly by two more Iranian women, Mersedeh Shahinkar and Sima Moradbeigi, dancing and smiling in response to the news Raisi's helicopter had plunged into the mountainside. Shahinkar was blinded by the security forces' brutality amid the 2022 protests, while Moradbeigi lost the use of one of her arms after an armed guard blasted her elbow apart from point-blank range. A slew of other videos shared to social media appeared to show people setting off fireworks in the streets of Tehran in celebration - though these clips are yet to be verified.

It comes as state media claimed that allied Russia is sending a 50-man specialist mountain rescue unit to assist the search. The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations confirmed it in a Telegram post. Rescuers were last night struggling to locate the Iranian president after the helicopter he was travelling in crashed in bad weather. An Iranian official said the lives of president Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, among others, were 'at risk'.

Nikol Pashinyan, Armenia's prime minister, said the country has plans to look after up to 40,000 refugees, but that up to 120,000 people will leave the country due to the 'danger of ethnic cleansing.' Nearly 6,700 people arrived in Armenia after leaving the Nagorno-Karabakh region, internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan , in the two days since the Armenian government began accepting refugees on Sunday

Captain Ivan Kovgan, 52, was shot and killed in Nagorno-Karabakh, where he was seconded as the deputy commander of a peacekeeping force. The 52-year-old military leader was also deputy commander of Russia's Northern Fleet submarine force based in the Arctic

New laws compel offshore companies that own property in England and Wales to identify their ultimate owner in a public registry of overseas entities. According to an investigation by the Register of Overseas Entities, nearly £200 million in UK property is owned by the associates of Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev and his families, who are unintested. Leyla Aliyev, daughter of Azerbaijan's president Ilham Aliyev; Kazakhstan's 'lifelong leader of the nation' Nursultan Nazarbayev'; and Isabel Dos Santos, fugitive daughter of Angola's former president and once Africa's richest woman.

According to police chief Gen. Hossein Rahimi, the assassinationist shot down the head of the security at the diplomatic post in Tehran today due to "personal and family difficulties." The killer appears to be barging into the building and pointing his gun at the terrified employees. Many within attempted to sneak inside through metal detectors to take cover. As he chases after the guys into the tiny side office, the man opens fire with the rifle, its muzzle flashing. A hero employee charges out from a side door and confronts the gunman, attempting to wrestle the rifle off him.

There have been troubling reports of MPs from an All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) seeking directions to brothels in the United States, including meeting sex workers and participating in'marathon' drinking sessions in the last month. On an APPG overseas trip last year, one Labour MP allegedly propositioned young female interns, prompting to a formal complaint against him. Some of my former colleagues use the AppG for freebie holidays with their wives, secretaries, and lovers,' the former MP told me. Because taxpayer money is not involved, they don't have to tell who is on the trip.'

Both sides have blamed each other for the uprising over the Nagorno-Karabakh region in the aftermath of Azerbaijan's allegations that they are attacking civilian infrastructure, with troops killed on both directions. After six weeks of conflict that claimed 6,500 people, Russia, Armenia's ally, brokered a ceasefire between the Caucasus neighbors in 2020. However, with Putin distracted by his own brutal war in Ukraine, Azerbaijan's capital has been devastated and injured, but Azerbaijan has been unable to provide any military assistance or support to Armenia (file photo).