Russia & CIS

Prime Minister Theresa May will use the remainder of time as Britains leader focusing on her domestic agenda her spokeswoman said on Friday when she will officially step down as head of the governing Conservative Party Reuters reports

Armenias Minister of Justice Artak Zeynalyan has announced his resignation according to Armenpress

The final deadline for the submission of the completed candidature documents for the 3rd edition of the European Games in 2023 passed on 31 May and the European Olympic Committees EOC confirms that one application has been received from the NOC of Poland as a joint bid from the city of Krakow and the Malopolska Region said a message posted on EOCs website 

Australian officials have seized the nations largest haul of methamphetamine at the Melbourne waterfront in a shipment of almost 16 metric tons 18 tons of the illicit drug hidden in stereo speakers shipped from Bangkok authorities said on Friday AP reports

During their meeting in St Petersburg on June 6 Russian President Vladimir Putin and Armenian Prime Nikol Pashinyan did not discuss the NagornoKarabakh conflict Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters RIA Novosti reported

The death toll from a government crackdown on protesters in Sudans capital has reached to 113 the Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors said Friday Anadolu Agency reports

The sculptures dedicated to the various kinds of sports created by Azerbaijani sculptors during the first European Games Baku2015 are being demonstrated at the exhibition entitled Sports is high art which is being held in Belarus Trend reports on June 7

Azerbaijani Minister of Defense Colonel General Zakir Hasanov attended the opening of a new administrative building of the Command Control Center of one of the ministrys main departments on June 6

Azerbaijani Minister of Defense Colonel General Zakir Hasanov attended the opening of a new administrative building of the Command Control Center of one of the ministrys main departments on June 6

The Baku Olympic Stadium has been classified in the UEFA Elite List of Stadia

Azercell which has always been a company that supports social projects continued its activity in this direction during the month of Ramadan Within the joint initiative of Azercell and Xəzər TV Mobile Eye and Mobile Dental clinics of Azercell visited Tartar Aghdam and Tovuz cities in May Approximately 3 000 people benefited from free checkups organized within the framework of this charity project

A German court Thursday handed a life sentence to a nurse believed to be the most prolific serial killer in the countrys postwar history for the unfathomable crime of murdering 85 patients in his care AFP reported

Libyan navy says 82 migrants rescued off western coast

Shallow water pipelay and offshore backfilling in Albania as part of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline TAP project is now complete Trend reports citing TAP AG consortium

Over the past 24 hours Armenian armed forces have violated the ceasefire along the line of contact between Azerbaijani and Armenian troops 30 times the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said on June 7

The seventh session of the Conference of Parties to the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions opened at UNESCO headquarters in Paris the Azerbaijani Ministry of Culture told Trend

Politicization of sporting events is a phenomenon contrary to the decisions adopted in particular by the UN as well as bilateral and multilateral agreements among countries spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said at the briefing Trend reports on June 5

Today Azerbaijan is an important partner of the US and plays a significant role in the Caucasus and Central Asia US Congressman from the Republican Party Alabama Robert Aderholt said in his statement on the occasion of the 101st anniversary of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic

The revenues of Azerbaijani state oil company SOCAR from the sale of oil reached 585 billion manats in 2018 compared to 5659 billion manats in 2017 Trend reports referring to the companys consolidated financial report for 2018