Russia & CIS

Accession to the Islamic military coalition is not on the foreign policy agenda of Azerbaijan, Hikmat Hajiyev, Foreign Ministry spokesman, told APA on Monday.

US-dollar rate in Turkey just now exceeded the level of 3.70 TRY.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May said the UK to leave EU and not accept any condition. Report informs citing the Bloomberg, Theresa May said in an interview with Sky News channel.

Outgoing President Barack Obama has received the report put together by the US Intelligence Community about the evidence it put together that led it conclude that Russia attempted to interfere in the US election, White House spokesperson Josh Earnest said in a press briefing, APA reports quoting Sputnik.

A building housing refugees in western Germany has caught fire, with over a hundred firefighters and police called in to battle the blaze, RT reported.

Presidential Spokesperson Ibrahim Kalin said Jan. 5 that Turkey has the right to shut down the Incirlik Air Base, Daily Sabah reported.

At least ten people were killed and 21 injured after a car rigged with explosives went off in the Bab Al Moatham neighborhood in the center of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, APA reports quoting Sputnik.

A new building of secondary school No13 in Tumbul village of the city of Nakhchivan was commissioned on January 5.

US Congress will repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, in 2017, as soon as President-elect Donald Trump's official cabinet is confirmed, US House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan said in a briefing on Thursday, APA reports quoting Sputnik.

US Department of State designated Hamza bin Laden, son of Osama bin Laden, as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT), according to official statement.

"Icherisheher" (Old City) by Azerbaijani filmmakers will be demonstrated at annual Pune international film festival due to take place from January 12 to 19 in India.

Turkey’s safety zone starts from the territories of the neighboring countries, TRT Haber news channel quoted Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as saying Jan. 5.

Argentina-based Imagen Diplomatica magazine has published an edition headlined "Azerbaijan: development and peace in the sacred foothills of the Caucasus, in the Land of Fire of brave sons".

Police wanted to stop a suspicious car outside the courthouse in the Turkish city of Izmir on Thursday at 16:00 local time.

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev has congratulated the country’s Orthodox Christian Community on Christmas, APA reports.

In order to ensure security and comfortableness in passenger transportations, bus lanes will be created in avenues and streets of Baku under the initiative of Baku Transport Agency, APA reports.

Habil Mammadov and Sarkhan Mammadov have been appointed as heads of new departments at the Azerbaijani Ministry of Taxes, says a message on the ministry’s website.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has signed an order on measures on construction of Garasu-Abdulabad-Talish-Meyniman-Mugan motor road in Hajigabul district.

A bottom part of a diesel tank in the platform #41 of the Oil and Gas Extraction Department (OGED) named after Nariman Narimanov of SOCAR in Alat was holding has collapsed.

Turkey’s security begins not only with the country's borders, but also from Nakhchivan, Batumi, Balkans and Aleppo.