Russia & CIS

A member of the Azerbaijani parliament Vice President of the OSCE PA Bureau Azay Guliyev Azerbaijani MPs Asim Mollazade and Sevinj Fataliyeva will leave for Tbilisi on June 4 to participate in a conference on parliamentary oversight supported by the OSCE PA

A memorandum of understanding was signed between Chairman of the Board of the Central Bank of Azerbaijan CBA Elman Rustamov and deputy regional director for South Caucasus at the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO Simone Haeberli Trend reports referring to the CBA

President Ilham Aliyev has congratulated the Azerbaijani people on the occasion of Ramadan holiday

Turkey will not take a step back from S400 missile deal with Russia President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday Anadolu Agency reports

Artillerymen of the Combined Arms Army demonstrated high professionalism in the competition for the title of Best rocket artillery battalion of the Azerbaijani Army the countrys Defense Ministry reported on Tuesday

In connection with the 650th anniversary of the celebrated Azerbaijani poet and thinker Imadaddin Nasimi the International Astronomical Union AIU ruled a decision to name a planet after the poet Trend reports referring to the Shamakhi Astrophysical Observatory named after Nasraddin Tusi of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences

Federal authorities this morning arrested eight people named in a federal grand jury indictment that alleges checkkiting schemes that used hundreds of altered Armenian passports to fraudulently open bank accounts and steal nearly 15 million from Bank of America and Wells Fargo according to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement

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 4

Almost 2000 cases of Ebola have been reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo as the central African nation struggles with the second largest outbreak of the disease in history CNN reports

A total of 607 people have been killed and 3261 others injured in the fighting in and around Libyas capital Tripoli the World Health Organization WHO said Xinhua reports

The 2019 World Transport Convention WTC 2019 will be held from June 13 to 16 at the China National Convention Center in Beijing to showcase the latest technical developments in the transport industry Trend reported citing Xinhua

The military personnel and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Turkey involved in the AzerbaijaniTurkish livefiring joint tactical exercises Indestructible Brotherhood 2019 to be held on June 711 arrived in Nakhchivan

Azerbaijani grandmaster Shahriyar Mammadyarov will contest medals at the sixth annual Altibox Norway Chess tournament to be held in Stavanger AzerTag reports

Another yard has been redeveloped under Bizim hayat project Trend reports referring to the Azerbaijani Presidential pressservice

The last living Holocaust survivor who participated in the revolt and escape from the Sobibor death camp Semyon Rosenfeld died at the age of 97 in a hospital in Rehovot near Tel Aviv according to the Israeli authorities

Negotiations on the purchase of Boeing 737 Max8 aircraft with Boeing Corporation are still underway Implementation of the signed contract is planned to be rescheduled from 2019 to 2024 according to Azerbaijan Airlines AZAL CJSC

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has appointed exPresident of the country Leonid Kuchma Ukrainian representative to the Contact Group on peaceful settlement in Donbass ONA reports citing TASS

The killing of Agil Omarov an officer of the Azerbaijani army while the OSCE Minsk Group cochairs were in the region was planned for the purpose of provocation Sahiba Gafarova Azerbaijani MP from the ruling New Azerbaijan Party told Trend

Azerbaijani GrecoRoman wrestlers will compete at the Junior European Championships to be held in Pontevedra Spain from June 39

Britain rolled out the royal red carpet for Donald Trump on Monday but the pomp pageantry and banquet with Queen Elizabeth looked set to be overshadowed by the US Presidents views on Brexit the UKs next leader and a row over Chinas Huawei