Russia & CIS

Turkey unveiled its first fully domesticallyproduced car on Friday saying it aimed to eventually produce up to 175000 a year of the electric vehicle in a project expected to cost 22 billion lira 37 billion over 13 years

Hrayr Tovmasyan the chairman of Armenias Constitutional Court was formally charged today with abuse of power Marina Ohanjanyan spokeswoman for the Special Investigation Service told NovostiArmenia news agency

The Bosporus was closed for navigation due to an incident with the Liberianflagged Songa Iridium cargo ship

Russia hopes that Turkey will purchase another batch of air defense systems S400 Deputy Prime Yury Borisov told the roundtheclock television news channel Rossiya24 in an interview TASS reports

The holiday gifts have been presented to lowincome families on the occasion of 31 December World Azerbaijanis Day of Solidarity of and the upcoming New Year on the initiative of President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation Mehriban Aliyeva

The flag will be lowered to halfmast in Embassy of Kazakhstan in Azerbaijan over fatal plane crash in Kazakhstan the Embassy told APA

The European Union may need to extend the deadline for talks about a new trade relationship with Britain European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told French daily Les Echos in an interview published on Friday Reuters reported

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev first lady Mehriban Aliyeva and their daughter Leyla Aliyeva viewed work done at Shahdag Tourism Center

Azerbaijans Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov received the ambassador of the Republic of Sudan Abbas Mustafa Ahmed Abdalla upon the termination of his diplomatic tenure

President of Azerbaijan Airlines CJSC Jahangir Askerov met on December 26 with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Sami Asem Ghosheh according to Azerbaijan Airlines CJSC

Citizens of Ukraine China and Kyrgyzstan were inside the Bek Air plane that crashed on Dec 27 in Almaty the Kazakh Interior Ministry said according to AKI press

One year has passed since the formation of the new board of the Azerbaijani community of Azerbaijans NagornoKarabakh region Trend reports

A poetry night has been held at the Baku branch of Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University on the initiative of VicePresident of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation Leyla Aliyeva

Iraqi President Barham Salih refused on Thursday to designate the nominee of an Iranbacked parliamentary bloc for prime minister saying he would rather resign than appoint someone to the position who would be rejected by protesters according to the Gulf news

Oil prices rise on the world markets

The Iraqi Airways plane en route from Baghdad to Minsk has made an emergency landing at Platov Airport in southern Russias RostovonDon due to technical reasons the airports press service told TASS on Friday

Mobile internet was cut on Friday in parts of Indias most populous state and thousands of riot police were deployed as authorities readied for fresh protests over a citizenship law seen as antiMuslim AFP reported

The death toll has risen to 35 in clashes between militia and traders in Bangui the capital of the Central African Republic local media reported Thursday Anadolu Agency reported

Dilgam Asgarov and Shahbaz Guliyev illegally detained in the occupied Azerbaijani territories should be transferred to the Azerbaijani side Head of the Azerbaijani community of Azerbaijans NagornoKarabakh region Tural Ganjaliyev told reporters Trend reports

For the first time in the history of Azerbaijans civil aviation the socalled fifth and seventh freedoms of the air will start operating at all international airports of the country