Countries to benefit from $460b climate deal blast funding as woefully insufficient

Countries to benefit from $460b climate deal blast funding as woefully insufficient

The funding will help poorer countries deal with the impacts of climate change,with rich countries leading the payments.

  • byKate Abnett,Valerie Volcovici andKarin Strohecker

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The extraordinary tale of how an oil state ended up hosting the world’s most important climate talks

The extraordinary tale of how an oil state ended up hosting the world’s most important climate talks

This year,it is the tiny petrostate of Azerbaijan,next year giant Brazil,and if the Albanese government gets its way,Australia will be next in line to host the climate Olympics.

  • byNick O'Malley
Iranian president,foreign minister killed in helicopter crash

Iranian president,foreign minister killed in helicopter crash

President Ebrahim Raisi and other officials in the helicopter had been missing for more than 12 hours when rescuers spotted the wreckage.

  • byJon Gambrell
Just a two-hour flight from Australia,idyllic New Caledonia implodes

Just a two-hour flight from Australia,idyllic New Caledonia implodes

This week,the tropical Pacific holiday destination erupted amid tensions with the French government in Paris over voting rights.

  • byMatthew Knott
French officials see Azerbaijan’s foreign interference behind deadly riots in New Caledonia

French officials see Azerbaijan’s foreign interference behind deadly riots in New Caledonia

Azerbaijan had invited separatists from the French territories last year,resulting in a group whose stated aim is to support “French liberation and anti-colonialist movements”.

  • byChris Zappone
By decree,Nagorno-Karabakh ‘will cease to exist’

By decree,Nagorno-Karabakh ‘will cease to exist’

After a nearly three-decade bid for independence,the unrecognised republic at the centre of a geopolitical fight is no more.

  • byAvet Demourian andRob Harris
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Fuel explosion death toll leaps to 68 as Armenians filled up to flee

Fuel explosion death toll leaps to 68 as Armenians filled up to flee

The death toll from an explosion and fire at a fuel depot in Nagorno-Karabakh has sharply increased as hundreds suffered burns while filling up with fuel.

  • byMaxim Rodionov
‘No one came for us’:Abandoned by Russia,ethnic Armenians flee threat of genocide by Azerbaijan

‘No one came for us’:Abandoned by Russia,ethnic Armenians flee threat of genocide by Azerbaijan

About 1500 families have already crossed the border into Armenia since Azerbaijan renewed bombing their enclave. More are expected to follow.

  • byIvan Nechepurenko
Azerbaijani forces strike Armenians,killing dozens

Azerbaijani forces strike Armenians,killing dozens

The EU,US,France and Germany condemned Azerbaijan. Armenia accused Russia of being too distracted by its own war in Ukraine to protect it.

  • byAndrew Osborn
How one country’s COVID border closures,still in place,are helping its finances

How one country’s COVID border closures,still in place,are helping its finances

More than three years into a border lockdown,Azerbaijan’s balance sheet has never looked better.

  • byZulfugar Agayev
Recovery flight lands in Baku to pick up stranded Qantas passengers

Recovery flight lands in Baku to pick up stranded Qantas passengers

Travellers stuck in Azerbaijan after their Qantas flight made an emergency landing are hoping to make it to London in time for Christmas.

  • byAngus Dalton