Editor's note: Nijat Babayev is an Azerbaijan-based journalist. The article expresses the author's personal opinion and may not coincide with the view of News.Az.
On Tuesday, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered a Pentagon review of the tumultuous 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, a move that has been a focal point of Republican criticism.
Google's major I/O 2025 event is currently happening in California, and, as expected, the focus is on artificial intelligence. The company revealed that its Gemini platform is getting significant improvements, with new features for the Gemini app and integration of its chatbot into other products.
The European Commission announced that it has proposed expanding the "safe third country" concept, which permits member states to deem an asylum application inadmissible if applicants could receive effective protection in another country.
The 8th Plenary Session of the Business Council of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) and the 10th CICA Business Forum took place in Baku on Tuesday.
Seventeen people were injured, including four critically, when a fire erupted early Tuesday on Chevron's deep-water Benguela Belize Lobito Tomboco (BBLT) oil platform, according to statements from Angolan authorities and the U.S. oil giant.
Canada's inflation rate dropped in April due to lower energy prices, although food costs continued to increase, according to a report from the national statistical agency released on Tuesday.
The European Union's top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, has decided to initiate a review of the EU-Israel association agreement—a free trade pact between the two parties—following Israel's decision to block aid to Gaza, according to the Dutch news agency ANP, citing Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp.
