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'Suicide pact for the rest of the world': Outrage as climate talks reach new US$300b finance deal
Wealthy nations say it is politically unrealistic to expect more money.
Analysis: How will NZ efforts stack up at this year’s big climate change summit?
NZ is among nearly 200 nations discussing climate change in Baku. How do we compare?
Russian military helicopter shot down on Armenian border
Two killed as Russia is drawn into conflict between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces.
'Staggering levels of death': Russia readies for war in regional conflict, expert warns
Regional conflict 'spiralling out of control' with Russia poised to make its first steps.
Roots of war: When Armenia talked tough, Azerbaijan took action
New York Times: The two countries returned to all-out war a month ago.
At front lines of a brutal war: Death and despair in Nagorno-Karabakh
New York Times: The 3-week-old conflict has settled into a brutal war of attrition.
Why Armenia and Azerbaijan are fighting again
The mountainous region of Nagorno-Karabakh has been in a tense limbo since a 1994 truce.
Fly-in, fly-out worker 'effectively barred' from seeing family
He says managed isolation rules mean he'd only get a few days with family before leaving.
How did imported butter become cheaper than NZ butter?
Company that imports Petit Normand explains why French cost less than Fonterra.
NZ butter making its mark globally
Anchor butter is a familiar sight on New Zealand supermarket shelves, but in far-flung Azerbaijan, they are eating it too.
Granny brings down internet
Usually when there are internet problems in former Soviet countries, people suspect nefarious government interference.
Mysterious Caspian Sea stirs the imagination
There are vast oil reserves under the Caspian and swimming in its waters are giant caviar-bearing beluga sturgeon.
Caspian adventures
There are vast oil reserves under the Caspian and swimming in its waters are giant caviar-bearing beluga sturgeon. Both riches have been the subject of disputes between the nations that claim a share of the Caspian and some of these disagreements centre on just how one defines these waters - as international ocean waters or inland sea or lake?
Baku: Money oozes from oil boom city
Officially autumn is here but it is 35C outside and the Caspian Sea is limpid, shimmering in the heat.