Russia & CIS

The traffic police officers accompany the drivers of vehicles transporting transit cargo through Azerbaijan Trend reports on March 6 referring to the Azerbaijani Interior Ministry

The EU on Friday welcomed a recent TurkeyRussia agreement for a ceasefire between conflict parties in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib Anadolu Agency reported

The general sense of uncertainty in the world due to the Coronavirus outbreak has reached the chess world with plenty of open tournaments announcing they will not take place or have been postponed Chess News reported

Social media giant Facebook Inc FBO and Alphabet Incs GOOGLO Google on Thursday recommended their San Francisco Bay area employees to work from home to minimize the risk of spreading Covid19 Reuters reported

The negotiations on a new agreement between Azerbaijan and the EU are underway Head of the EU Delegation to Azerbaijan Kestutis Jankauskas said in Baku at the event dedicated to International Womens Day March 8 Trend reports

At least 23 people have been killed and 33 injured in the deadly attack in Kabul targeting the ceremony attended by former Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah sources at the Mohammed Ali Jinnah hospital said Sputnik reported

Nearly 90 percent of the worlds population of every gender holds some prejudice against women according to a UN study published Thursday ahead of International Womens Day Reuters reported

The next trilateral meeting between Azerbaijan Georgia and Turkey will be held this year according to Georgias Defense Ministry

Oil prices have decreased on the world markets

An Azerbaijan border guard Orkhan Pashazade who was martyred by Armenian armed forces has been laid to rest

Azerbaijans State Oil Company SOCAR has sent first batch of Azerbaijani oil to the Belarusian State Concern for Oil and Chemistry Belneftekhim Concern by tankers from the Turkish port of Ceyhan to Belarus Ibrahim Ahmadov Deputy Head of the SOCAR Public Relations and Event Management Department told Trend

President Ilham Aliyev has congratulated Azerbaijani women on the occasion of 8 March International Womens Day

The World Health Organization WHO has registered 2241 new cases of the novel coronavirus in the world in the past day with 143 of those cases in China according to the informational bulletin released on Friday TASS reported

Azerbaijani oil price has fallen on the world markets

Saudi Arabia reopened two of the most holy religious sites in Islam AlHaram Mosque in Mecca and AlMasjid al Nabawy in Medina after they were closed for sterilization to halt the spread of the new coronavirus state TV AlEkhbariya reported on Friday

During his visit to the State of Idaho Consul General of Azerbaijan Nasimi Aghayev met with the Governor of Idaho Brad Little on March 5 2020

As coronavirus fears continued to mount on Thursday Twitter expanded its ban on dehumanizing language to include disease AFP reported

Armed Forces of Armenia flagrantly violated the ceasefire on the AzerbaijaniArmenian state border on March 5 the press service of Azerbaijans Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated Trend reports

Over the past 24 hours Armenian armed forces have violated the ceasefire along the line of contact between Azerbaijani and Armenian troops 27 times the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said on March 6

US lawmakers passed an emergency 83 billion spending bill to combat the coronavirus on Thursday as the number of cases surged in the countrys northwest and deaths reached 12 AFP reported