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WUF13: Baku opens its doors to world's urban planners with ambitious plans

WUF13: Baku opens its doors to world's urban planners with ambitious plans

Hosting the UN's World Urban Forum next month gives Azerbaijan a rare platform to showcase both an ambitious capital masterplan and the controversial smart-city project rising from the rubble of Karabakh. The audience will be watching closely.

Markets misread crisis as Hormuz disruption may last longer than expected

Markets misread crisis as Hormuz disruption may last longer than expected

At the FT Commodities Global Summit in Lausanne, leading figures in global commodity trading delivered a stark assessment: the closure of the Strait of Hormuz is not a short-term disruption but a structural shock whose consequences will reverberate across global supply chains for years. From oil refining to food production, the cascading effects are already being felt, AzerNEWS reports.

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