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The Israeli military said on Thursday that an aircraft and a tank had targeted two posts belonging to militants in the Gaza Strip after three rockets were launched at Israel, Reuters reports.

Officials say 41 students in Kentucky have been injured in a crash involving three school buses, ABC News reports.

The buyer of Leonardo da Vinci’s painting Salvator Mundi (ca. 1500), which as of last month is the most expensive artwork ever sold, is the Saudi prince Bader bin Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Farhan al-Saud, according to ARTnews.

“It remains to be source of serious concern that certain forces in the region are not interested in taking necessary political steps to move beyond the unsustainable and unacceptable status-quo,” said Azerbaijan`s Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov as he addressed the 24th OSCE Ministerial Council Meeting in Vienna, Austria, APA reports.

Azerbaijan’s Cabinet of Ministers has made a decision regarding the Novruz, Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha holidays in 2018, the government’s press service reported.

Azerbaijani MP, chairperson of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons Sahiba Gafarova has highlighted Azerbaijan`s accomplishments over the past years as she met with Rome`s mayor Virginia Raggi.

An earthquake occurred in Azerbaijan’s Sharur district, the Republican Seismic Survey Center of the National Academy of Sciences reported Dec. 7.

The heads of the delegations of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs who attended the Ministerial Council in Vienna, Russian Foreign Ministr Sergey Lavrov, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and France’s permanent representative to the OSCE Véronique Roger-Lacan have issued a joint statement, APA reported.

An exhibition titled “Caravaggio - Opera Omnia” will open in the Heydar Aliyev Center Dec. 13, Trend reports.

U.S. President Donald Trump has told his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan that Washington will not give terror group PKK/PYD weapons anymore, according to Turkish foreign minister Friday, ANadolu reported.

Police said they were responding on Friday to reports of shots being fired on London’s packed Oxford Street, the heart of the British capital’s main shopping district, and had reacted as if the incident were terrorist related, Reuters reports.

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev completed his working visit to Brussels on Friday.

Azerbaijan strongly condemned terror attack in mosque in Egypt, APA reports quoting the official twitter page of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan.

At present, 265 Azerbaijani women are reported missing, 98 more are being held hostage, Chairperson of the country’s State Committee for Family, Women and Children Affairs Hijran Huseynova said at an event dedicated to the international campaign to prevent violence against women.

Representatives of UNESCO and Azerbaijan have held a working meeting highlighting the 10th anniversary of Baku process at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, AzerTag reports.

The unresolved conflicts in partner countries hamper cooperation, European Council President Donald Tusk told a press conference following the fifth Eastern Partnership summit on Friday, an APA correspondent reported from Brussels.

In accordance with the Armed Forces preparation plan, exercises were conducted with formations and military units of the Air Force.

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has extended his condolences to Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.

A draft of amendments and additions to Articles 212.2, 522 and several other articles of the Code of Administrative Offenses have been worked out, APA reports.

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has submitted to the parliament the bills amending the laws “On police”, “On courts and judges” and “On compensation for damage caused by investigative and judicial authorities.