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Russia will take into account the unstable international security situation when deciding on any further steps in the sphere of nuclear disarmament, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry's department for non-proliferation, Mikhail Ulyanov, told Sputnik Friday.

A fatal traffic accident occurred in Yevlakh region, killing 5 people and injuring one, APA’s local bureau reports.

Using one terrorist group to destroy another is unworthy of serious states, Turkey’s prime minister said Friday while criticizing a U.S. decision to arm the PKK/PYD to defeat Daesh in Syria.

“Welcome to the Baku 2017 Islamic Solidarity Games,” said said Mehriban Aliyeva, First Vice-President of Azerbaijan, Chairperson of the Islamic Solidarity Games Operations Committee addressing the Opening Ceremony of the 4th Islamic Solidarity Games in Baku May 12.

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has officially declared the Baku 2017 Islamic Solidarity Games open, Trend reports.

Security forces killed three PKK terrorists in southeastern Turkey on Friday, officials said, APA reports quoting Anadolu Agency.

The opening ceremony of the 4th Islamic Solidarity Games is being held in the Baku Olympic Stadium, Trend reports.

US Secretary of Defense James Mattis will participate in meetings with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan at the White House on Tuesday, US Department of Defense spokesperson Capt. Jeff Davis said in a briefing on Friday, Sputnik reported.

A pioneering new study has uncovered large amounts of water in the "primitive atmosphere" of an exoplanet, which is a similar size to Neptune. The discovery could help uncover how such planets formed, to provide insight into how other planets in galaxies across the universe.

Georgia won’t increase the purchase of Azerbaijani gas in 2017, despite the refusal to purchase Russian gas, Georgia’s Deputy Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Mariam Valishvili told Trend.

Incomes of Azerbaijan’s state budget amounted to 3,591.5 million manats in the first quarter of 2017, exceeding the forecast of 3,473 million manats by 3.4 percent, said the Ministry of Finance.

The head of NATO has warned that a NATO without Turkey would be weak, APA reports quoting Anadolu.

Chief of Azerbaijan’s State Border Service, Border Troops Commander, Colonel General Elchin Guliyev and Chairman of the State Customs Committee, Colonel General Aydin Aliyev checked the organization of services at the Heydar Aliyev International Airport in Baku on Saturday.

The 14th plenary meeting of the EU-Azerbaijan Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (PCC) will be held in Brussels on May 1-4.

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has received former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of the State of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani.

Georgia is finding ways to better use its natural resources and financial capital to turn the country into a ‘green economy.’

Twenty-four people are feared trapped under the mud and debris of a landslide that hit a village in Uzgen district of Osh region, southern Kyrgyzstan, APA reported citing AKIPRESS.

Azerbaijan`s Ambassador to Jordan Sabir Agabayov has met Ayman Safadi, the country`s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates.

An international team of astronomers has found evidence of the mysterious “missing link” black holes that explains the gap between small and supermassive black holes.

Military units of the armed forces of Armenia violated ceasefire 120 times throughout the day, using 60 and 82 milimeter mortars (9 shells) and large-caliber machine guns.