Russia & CIS

The pre-referendum campaign that started in Azerbaijan Sept. 3 will come to an end at 08:00 am, September 25.

The European Union foreign policy chief says Iran is complying with the nuclear deal reached between Iran and G5+1 last year, IRNA reported.

London is about to enjoy its first ever festival that is focussed solely around videos of cats.

President Obama said he felt "deep sympathy" for the families but that the law would be "detrimental to US national interests".

More than 20,000 Syrians have returned to the Syrian border town of Jarablus nearly a month after it was taken from the Daesh terrorist organisation, an official has said, TRT World reports.

Azerbaijan, as one of the founders of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC), understands the organization’s important role in the region and is interested in enhancing the effectiveness of its activity, said Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov.

304 more people are included in housing waiting list.

A meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas could be useful, Russian FM Lavrov has said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will hold meetings with US Democratic presidential nominee Hilary Clinton and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in New York on Sunday, Sputnik reported.

Armenian armed units violated ceasefire a total of nine times throughout the day using large caliber machine guns.

The book provides an insight into the historical background of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Brent crude futures LCOc1 settled down $1.76, or 3.7 percent, at $45.89 a barrel.

London's Madame Tussauds museum said on Wednesday it had separated its wax figure replicas of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt after the Hollywood power couple announced their split.

Four people have been shot dead at a mall in northwest Washington state and the gunman has fled the scene, police said on social media on Friday.

The executive is said to have undertaken “painstaking work” towards cutting the revenues in the 2017 State Budget.

The Committee of Ministers in the Council of Europe said the current Georgian Government had addressed the issue of prison overcrowding.

Azerbaijani grandmaster Nijat Abbasov tops the A tournament of the International Chess Festival Baku Open 2016.

Leaders of movements and which stand for independence of their regions will gather in Moscow at a conference ‘The right of people to self-determination and building a multipolar world.’ Why have only Western separatists been invited? Does the Kremlin fund them? And isn’t it a nonsense – to support separatists, while it's prohibited in Russia?

In 2012, Asghar Farhadi received Iran's first Oscar when "A Separation" won best foreign film.

Russia's space agency says a manned launch to the International Space Station that had been scheduled for next week has been postponed.