Russia & CIS

The blast took place at Nasr Boulevard.

World Bank Group member, Turkey's Garanti Bank set to finance green buildings.

A terrorist threat led to the evacuation of tens of thousands of music fans Friday from the Rock am Ring festival in Nuerburg, Germany, police and concert organizers said.

A quarrel between husband and wife ended with the latter's death in Yerevan on Friday.

Executive Director of the Centre for Analysis of Economic Reforms and Communication (CAERC) Vusal Gasimly and CEO of the World SME Forum (WSF) Tunc Uyanık have signed a MoU on cooperation in Turkey.

U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris climate accord will affect foreign direct investment (FDI) and may lead to investor-state disputes, the head of investment at the U.N. trade and development agency UNCTAD said on Friday, Reuters reported.

Two children carrying explosives blew themselves up on Friday near a camp in northern Cameroon housing civilians displaced by Nigeria's Boko Haram militants, killing nine people and wounding 30, officials said, APA reports quoting Reuters.

The Turkish police are conducting the second raid for the day at the country’s universities, the Turkish media reported June 2.

Head of the Department of Youth Policy and Sport Issues of Presidential Administration, assistant to the first vice-president Yusuf Mammadaliyev’s interview to APA.

The topic of the "hand in the Kremlin" has become a huge hit in the USA. The Americans are not going to give up on it, especially before the midterm elections to te Congress. New "sensations" touch upon Donald Trump's ties with Russia, whereas "interference in the elections" is not even questioned - it has become an axiom for the Americans.

The stormy reaction from Ukrainian politicians and mass media to the remarks that Russian President Vladimir Putin about the "Russian Anna, the Queen of France" is in fact understandable. Of course, one should bear in mind the fact that it has nothing to do with history. The "icing on the cake" in the story was the tweet from Ukraine's Minister for Foreign Affairs

Russia's missile forces and artillery are to be rearmed. Smerch systems are said to be replaced with modernized versions of Tornado-C. The process is to be completed by 2020. Tornado-C is a large-caliber multiple-launch rocket system. New Iskander-M missile systems will be delivered to missile and artillery forces as well

Russia still has a strong ambition of a superpower. In the past, the USA and the USSR had comparable military potentials. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia was nearly destroyed. The country's defense spending was cut considerably, defense companies found themselves in a deep crisis. The Soviet power of the USSR declined in an instant

Tomorrow, lights of Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey, will reflect colors of Azerbaijan flag.

In accordance with the readiness plan for 2017, a tactical-special exercise on "Actions, deployment and organization of work of mobile sanitary-epidemiological team in the field conditions" was held at the Center for Sanitary and Epidemiological Control of the Main Medical Department of the Ministry of Defense.

In accordance with the Armed Forces preparation plan for 2017, practical shooting skills of snipers are examined in formations and military units located in the frontline zone.

An ancient 3-ha large Necropolis dating back to Late Antiquity has been unearthed in the Demirchi village of Azerbaijan’s Shamakhy district.

"We support the budget rule, the transitional provision of the budget rule as it is."

Iraqi armed forces launched an operation on Saturday to capture the last Islamic State-held enclave in Mosul, according to a military statement.

Cholera has recently killed more than 400 people in Yemen, prompting humanitarian agencies to step up aid deliveries.