Russia & CIS

President Donald Trump was impeached by the US House of Representatives Wednesday night becoming only the third American chief executive to be formally charged under the Constitutions ultimate remedy for high crimes and misdemeanors AP reported

About 40 Israeli citizens were detained at Domodedovo airport of Russia TASS reports

Icherisheher State HistoricalArchitectural Reserve SHAR has been included in the List of Islamic Heritage of ISESCO the press service of Icherisheher State HistoricalArchitectural Reserve Department SHARD told APA

An international seminar on Understanding FATF standards for nonprofit sector coorganized by Financial Monitoring Service of the Republic of Azerbaijan FMS and Open Government Platform of Azerbaijan has been held in Baku under the aegis of International Centre ICNL for NotforProfit Law and Empowering Civil Society Organizations for Transparency ECSOFT project of the US Agency for International Development USAID AzerTag reports

Next meeting of Joint Commission on Delimitation and Demarcation of borders of Azerbaijan and Georgia will be held in Tbilisi in early 2020 Georgias Ambassador to Azerbaijan Zurab Pataradze stated APAs Georgian bureau reports

Azerbaijans Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov has met with the outgoing Ambassador of the Hellenic Republic to the country Nikolaos Kanellos

Deputy of the Milli Majlis of the Republic of Azerbaijan Araz Alizade hospitalized APA reports

The second issue of the Journal of Azerbaijan Barometer by Social Research Center has published an analytical report based on a public opinion survey New model of admission exams for full 11year secondary education higher and vocational education AZERTAC reported

Azerbaijani kickboxers have brought home seven medals including three golds from the international WAKO Wizard Open Ring 2019 tournament held in Kyiv Ukraine AZERTAC reported

Archaeologists have discovered two royal tombs in Greece containing jewellery and artefacts dating back more than 3000 years BBC News reported

Musica Viva Moscow Chamber Orchestra has performed at the Heydar Aliyev Center AZERTAC reported

Azerbaijani chess players will test their strength at the King Salman Rapid and Blitz Championships 2019 to be held in Moscow Russia from December 2531

The Black Sea Trade and Development BSTDB and SOCAR AQS a major drilling and well services company headquartered in Azerbaijan have reached an agreement to partner for advancing regional cooperation in the energy sector BSTDB told NewsAz

The 9th meeting of the Council of the Parliamentary Assembly of Turkic Speaking Countries kicked off in Baku on Wednesday

VicePresident of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation Leyla Aliyeva has visited children who receive treatment at the Childrens Clinic of Azerbaijan National Oncology Center Leyla Aliyeva inquired about the childrens health and the progress of their treatment

The ceasefire monitoring exercise on the AzerbaijanArmenia state border held in accordance with the mandate of Personal Representative of the OSCE ChairpersoninOffice on Dec 18 ended without incident

South Korea and the United States failed on Wednesday to reach an agreement over Seouls contribution towards hosting some 28500 US troops ending two days of talks that were the last before their existing deal expires on Dec 31 Reuters reported

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has received Chairman of the Mazhilis of the Parliament of Kazakhstan Nurlan Nigmatulin

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has received Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey Mustafa Sentop

With Turkey ramping up its fight against terrorists the security forces launched the eighth phase of a domestic antiterror offensive the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday Anadolu Agency reported