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Three villages in a buffer zone of one of western Georgia’s national parks will be using biomass briquettes, energy-efficient stoves and solar panels this winter, instead of cutting trees for firewood.

During the fire in a multi-storey residential building in Binagadi district of Baku, 15 residents were rescued, 20 people were evacuated, APA reports quoting the website of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

Bitcoin dropped below $7,000 on Friday to trade more than $1,000 down from an all-time high hit on Wednesday, as some traders dumped it for a clone called Bitcoin Cash, sending its value up around a third.

The parliament on Friday hosted 55 young female leaders from 50 countries under a special program organized by the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation's (OIC).

The Irish government is to ban the use of wild animals in circuses from next year, with a new regulation that will come into effect on 1 January 2018, according to BBC.

A solemn ceremony of Battle Flag presentation to the military unit of the Air Force was held.

Azerbaijan is a strategic partner of the UK in the energy sector, UK's Ambassador to Azerbaijan Carole Mary Crofts said.

A fire broke out in a 16-storey building in Baku, APA reports.

All official religious figures will receive salary in Azerbaijan from 2018, Gunduz Ismayilov, deputy chairman of the Azerbaijani State Committee for Work with Religious Organizations, said.

A working group is being created in Azerbaijan to implement actions within the ‘Strategic Roadmap for the Development of the Oil and Gas Industry (including chemical products)’, the Azerbaijani Energy Ministry said in a message Oct. 26.

The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on seven North Korean individuals and three entities over what it called serious human rights abuses, including forced labor and hunting down of asylum seekers, APA reports quoting Reuters.

Twitter is banning two of Russia's biggest media outlets from buying advertising amid fears they attempted to interfere with the 2016 US election, BBC reports.

A Russian helicopter carrying eight has gone down at sea off the island of Spitsbergen several kilometers away from the Russian coalmining community of Barentsburg, according to the Norwegian rescue coordination center Twitter account, TASS reported.

Baku is in the top five CIS cities popular among Russian tourists for travel in first 10 days of November, Azerbaijani Ministry of Culture and Tourism said citing Russian website for accommodation booking TVIL.ru.

Scientists in India have discovered a 152 million-year-old fossil of an ichthyosaur - an extinct marine reptile - in the western state of Gujarat.

AFFA President Rovnaq Abdullayev has met with Robert Prosinečki, the head coach of the Azerbaijani national soccer team.

"Culture and Creativity for Innovation and Growth" Forum has underway at the Stone Chronicle Museum in Baku.

Azerbaijan’s Minister of Emergency Situations, Colonel-General Kamaladdin Heydarov on Thursday met with Iran’s Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance Masoud Karbasian, who is also the co-chairman of the State Commission for cooperation between the two countries in the economic, commercial and humanitarian spheres.

Baku hosted talks between the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry and Germany’s Federal Ministry of Defense in line with the plan of bilateral cooperation for 2017, Trend reports.

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has sent a congratulatory letter to President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov on the occasion of his country’s national holiday – Independence Day, APA reported.