Azerbaijan won the Eurovision Song Contest yesterday, a stunning victory for a country that ranks 90th in population worldwide and doesn't have a pop music tradition that's particularly well-known ...

Last May, Ell & Nikki, an obscure duo from Azerbaijan, won the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest. The country’s President, Ilham Aliyev, treated the musical win like a military triumph, describing it as “a ...

Hosting The Eurovision Song Contest was a really big deal for Azerbaijan, so foiling an alleged terrorist plot to attack it was a pretty big deal too, which the country kept secret for weeks. As The ...

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BAKU (Reuters) - Iran's ambassador to Azerbaijan, withdrawn last month in protest at Baku's hosting of the Eurovision Song Contest, has returned to his post in a sign of easing tension between the ...

Netherlands, Iceland, Ireland, Spain and Slovania have said they will not participate in the competition if Israel does.

In 1973, Ilanit was the first Eurovision contestant from Israel. A few months earlier, Palestinian terrorists had killed 11 Israeli athletes at the Olympic Village in Munich. It is said that Ilanit ...