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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

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has expressed condolences to President of Kazakhstan KassymJomart Tokayev

Kazakhstans president KassymJomart Tokayev has declared December 28 a national day of mourning in the wake of Fridays Bek Air plane crash near Almaty Presidential Spokesman Berik Uali wrote on his Facebook page TASS reported

A captain of British Airways Boeing B7878 Dreamliner en route from London to Islamabad decided to land at Bakus Heydar Aliyev International Airport on Friday due to heavy fog at the Islamabad International Airport the Baku airports press service told AzVisionaz

So far there has been no information about the presence of Azerbaijanis among the victims in the plane crash in Almaty Kazakhstan the spokesperson for the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry Leyla Abdullayeva told AzVisionaz

A Bek Air plane with 93 passengers and five crew members on board crashed near the city of Almaty in Kazakhstan on Friday shortly after taking off killing at least 15 people authorities in the Central Asian country said Reuters reported

Azerbaijan and Qatar have discussed the ways of developing the bilateral cooperation as Azerbaijani ambassador Rashad Ismayilov met with Qatars Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Abdullah Bin Nasser Bin Khalifa AlThani

Over the past 24 hours Armenian armed forces have violated the ceasefire along the line of contact between Azerbaijani and Armenian troops 25 times using largecaliber machine guns the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said on Dec 27

The death toll from a Christmas typhoon that tore through the central Philippines rose to 28 on Friday with 12 people missing the disaster agency said as authorities moved to restore power and residents tried to repair damaged homes Reuters reported

A 51 magnitude earthquake has been registered near Bushehr nuclear plant southwestern Iran the US Geological Survey USGS said on Thursday Spuntik reported

Japan will send a warship and patrol planes to protect Japanese ships in the Middle East as the situation in the region from which it sources nearly 90 of its crude oil imports remains volatile a document approved by the cabinet showed on Friday Reuters reported

Azerbaijan will develop the State program on the efficient use of water resources

Galina Volchek a prominent Russian theater director and actress has died She was 86

Cloudy weather is expected in Baku and Absheron Peninsula on December 27

Azerbaijan is working towards the promotion of environmentally friendly cars and phased restrictions on using vehicles with an expired life mainly cars with diesel engines Head of the Department of Environmental Policy of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources Rasim Sattarzade told reporters in Baku Trend reports

According to preliminary data the bus driver lost control of the vehicle and the bus fell on its side off the road