Russia & CIS

The number of foreign tourists who came to Azerbaijan increased by 83 percent and reached 21 million people in JanuaryAugust 2019

At least one person died in a fire in a hospital in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro on Thursday Globo News reported

In accordance with the plan approved by Azerbaijani President Supreme CommanderinChief of the Armed Forces Ilham Aliyev the Azerbaijani army will hold largescale operationaltactical exercises involving various types and branches of troops Army Corps and military formations

At least seven civilians were killed and nine injured when PKK terrorists targeted a vehicle carrying forest workers in southeastern Turkey Turkeys interior minister said early Friday Anadolu Agency reported

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov held a meeting with Liliane Maury Pasquier the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe PACE during her official visit to Azerbaijan the Foreign Ministry told NewsAz

The Azerbaijani community of the NagornoKarabakh region has issued a statement in connection with the illegal visit of a group of the French MPs to the occupied Azerbaijani NagornoKarabakh region Trend reports referring to the community

Azerbaijans oil production has seen a more than fourfold growth over the past 25 years according to the countrys state oil firm SOCAR

Over the past 24 hours Armenian armed forces have violated the ceasefire along the line of contact between Azerbaijani and Armenian troops 20 times the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said on Sept 13

South Korean President Moon Jaein and US President Donald Trump are expected to hold a summit at the United Nations this month Moons office said on Friday amid hopes for a restart of talks aimed at dismantling North Koreas nuclear weapons program Reuters reported

An international team representing 15 institutions including Northwestern Oxford the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory in Cape Town and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Virginia has discovered a gigantic balloonlike structure hiding in plain sight right in the center of the Milky Way Xinhua reported

Turkish President Erdogan says all means to be used to arrest perpetrators of PKK terror attack targeting civilians in SE Turkey APA reports citing Anadolu Agency

Azerbaijan strongly condemns the illegal visit of French MPs to the occupied NagornoKarabakh region of the country reads a commentary by the Press Service Department of Azerbaijans Foreign Ministry on the visit of French MPs to the occupied NagornoKarabakh region of Azerbaijan Trend reports

Preparations continue for the 20th Azerbaijani Republican Fair of beekeeping products jointly organized by the Agro Procurement and Supply OJSC under the Ministry of Agriculture the Food Safety Agency and the Azerbaijan Beekeepers Association Trend reports Sept 12 referring to the ministry

Nearly 200 rare musical instruments of 1820th centuries will be demonstrated at the exhibition at the Heydar Aliyev Center AzerTag reports

Ministry of Foreign Affairs MFA of Azerbaijan congratulates Toshimitsu Motegi in his appointment as the new foreign minister of Japan the Ministry wrote on Twitter APA reports

The eighth meeting of the Joint Intergovernmental Commission on Economic Cooperation between Azerbaijan and Turkey will be held in Baku on September 16 Trend reports on Sept 12 referring to the Azerbaijani Cabinet of Ministers

At least 50 stowaways were killed when a freight train derailed in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo early Thursday the latest rail tragedy to strike the vast central African nation

A new report from UEFA published on Thursday showed record spending in Europe during the recently closed summer transfer window with the majority of all money spent on transfers coming from clubs involved in either the Champions League or Europa League group stage

Some 350000 people have been displaced by the ongoing conflict in Yemen so far in 2019 the UNs International Organization for Migration IOM said on Thursday

Promotion of the tourism potential of the occupied territories and conflict zones is absolutely unacceptable Chairman of Azerbaijans State Tourism Agency Fuad Naghiyev said at the 23rd Session of the General Assembly of the UN World Tourism Organization UNWTO in St Petersburg Russia Trend reports referring to the State Tourism Agency