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Azerbaijan's Farid Mammadov performs during the final of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden, on May 18, 2013. Denmark's Emmelie de Forest won the competition.

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  • Denmark's de Forest wins Eurovision song contest

    talk to new people, just call them and don't be afraid," she said.De Forest was followed by second-place winner Farid Mammadov of Azerbaijan, who got 234 points for the song "Hold Me," which he performed on top of a glass cubicle containing a male dancer.   Read more »

  • Moderate earthquake injures 2 in northwest Iran

    The town is about 600 kilometers (370 miles) northwest of the capital, Tehran.The spokesman of emergency department of East Azerbaijan Province, Habib Hasangholizadeh, told IRNA that the two injured people were taken to a hospital in Tasooj.It was the third   Read more »

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About Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan [ɑ:zɚbai'ʤɑ:n] (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Respublikası), is a country in the South Caucasus. Located at the crossroads of Eastern Europe and Southwest Asia, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to the south. The Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (an exclave of Azerbaijan) borders Armenia to the north and east, Iran to the south and west, and Turkey to the northwest. The Nagorno-Karabakh region in the southwest of Azerbaijan Proper declared itself independent from Azerbaijan in 1991, but it is not recognized by any nation.

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