Russia & CIS

Military units of the armed forces of Armenia violated ceasefire 155 times throughout the day, using large-caliber machine guns and 60 millimeter mortars (17 shells), Azerbaijan's Ministry of Defense said Saturday.

President Donald Trump signed on Friday executive orders directing the US Department of Commerce to carry out a review on the causes of the trade deficit and ways to improve duty collection, Sputnik reported.

Moscow is being forced to assume a confrontational stance in relations with NATO, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Friday, APA reports quoting sputniknews.

A fatal road accident took place on Baku-Alat highway, APA reports.

The UN Secretariat called for the resumption of negotiations on Nagorno-Karabakh, said in a statement deputy spokesman for the Secretary-General of the UN Farhan Haq on Friday.

Azerbaijan is a core area for BP company, said BP CEO Bob Dudley in an interview with Petroleum Intelligence Weekly, Trend reports.

In March 2017, Armenia’s armed forces 3,964 times violated the ceasefire in various directions along the line of contact between Armenian and Azerbaijani troops, according to the results of the APA’s calculations based on the reports confirmed by the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry.

Japanese whalers have killed 333 black minke whales during a government-backed months-long expedition to allegedly survey biomass resources, Sputnik reported.

The United States added three North Korean nationals living in Russia to its North Korea sanctions list, the US Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said on Friday, Sputnik reported.

Spokesperson of Azerbaijan`s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Hikmat Hajiyev has delivered a report at the Ethiopian Public Administration University.

A mission of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) discussed with Azerbaijan the possibility of the country’s participation in the custom transit system (CTS) pilot project, the ADB Baku office told Trend Mar. 31.

A bomb apparently targeting a mosque in Pakistan's northwestern city of Parachinar killed at least 22 people on Friday and wounded dozens in an attack claimed by the Pakistani Taliban, Reuters reported.

The meeting in Arkhangelsk showed that Russia intends to control all security issues in its Arctic zone, which, by the way, may soon expand significantly - by 1.2 million square kilometers. Today, after all that has and has not been said in Arkhangelsk, it appears that the ball is on Trump's side

"Opinion polls in the US show that Russia has many friends in the US. I want to tell them first and foremost that we perceive and regard the United States as a great power, with which we want to establish very kind relations," Putin said. "I hope that we will enter a two-way street to improve the Russian-US relations for the benefit of the world,"

Commander of NATO's Armed Forces in Europe, US General Curtis Scaparrotti gave a high assessment to Russia's new military equipment. Caliber systems, for example, can be ground-, air- and sea-based. This is a multifunctional system that gives the Russians great coverage, accuracy and so on, the US general admitted

Resolutions, petitions, requirements and political statements take a lot of time, energy and paper. As a rule, they stir up too much noise and a fat lot of good. If the strong one want to flex their muscles, they do not need to make any statements or resolutions. They can disregard international law and do what they want

Details about the unauthorized action of protest actions organized by opposition activist Aleksei Navalny continue to emerge. A video of a teenager sitting in a police van has gone viral on the Internet. The happy-looking teenager in the video can be heard saying: "We are fine, we will be paid 10,000 euros"

At a BMW plant in Munich, Germany, production came to a standstill for almost an hour after two workers had passed out during their shift due to alcohol and drug consumption, costing the company dearly.

"There are no plans to deploy new Russian military bases on the territory of Syria."

The multi-national military exercise "Noble partner - 2017" under the motto "Strength through Partnership" will be held for the third time in Georgia in late July 2017.