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The Tokyo 2020 Olympics are expected to cost some 135 trillion yen 126 billion organisers said Friday unveiling a final budget showing increased revenue balancing out extra costs including countermeasures against heat AFP reported

Frances competition authority fined Google GOOGLO 150 million euros 167 million for anticompetitive behavior and for having unclear advertising on the Google Ads page Reuters reported

Direct revenue of the Azerbaijani government from the AzeriChiragGunashli ACG block of fields exceeds 140 billion BP Vice President for Communications External Affairs and Strategy in Azerbaijan Georgia and Turkey Bakhtiyar Aslanbayli said at the 2nd Republican Forum of Foreign Trade Participants Trend reported

In the first eleven months of 2019 over 29 million tourists traveled to Azerbaijan from 192 countries up 11 compared the same period of the previous years according to the State Statistical Committee

US health officials said on Thursday two more deaths occurred since last week from a mysterious respiratory illness tied to vaping taking the total toll to 54 Reuters reported

Facebook on Thursday said it is investigating a report that a database containing names and phone numbers of more than 267 million users was exposed online AFP reported

In accordance with the combat training plan for 2019 approved by Azerbaijans defense minister the Army Corps conducted livefire night exercises at the combinedarms range the Defense Ministry reported

Azerbaijani oil price has increased on the world markets

President Donald Trump said on Thursday he wants an immediate trial in the Senate after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she would not hand off impeachment to the Senate until she learned how Republicans would manage the proceeding Reuters reported

Armenias Special Investigation Service has decided to arrest the property of expresident instigator of the NagornoKarabakh conflict Serzh Sargsyan who is involved in a criminal case on charges of corruption Vestnik Kavkaza reported

Azerbaijani Minister of Foreign Affairs Elmar Mammadyarov has met with a delegation led by Deputy SecretaryGeneral for Political Affairs Political Director for the European External Action Service JeanChristophe Belliard

A gunman has opened fire with a Kalashnikov automatic weapon at the Moscow headquarters of Russias Federal Security Service FSB local media reported

Azerbaijan is Georgias fourth largest foreign trade partner with the bilateral trade between the two countries totaling 9327 million in JanuaryNovember of 2019 Georgias National Statistics Service said AZERTAC reported

Azerbaijan has become the 46th state to have ratified the Convention on Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse Lanzarote Convention said a statement from the Council of Europe

Azerbaijans Prime Minister Ali Asadov has met with Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey Mustafa Sentop AZERTAC reported

An Azerbaijani delegation led by Chief of the State Migration Service Vusal Huseynov has participated in the First Global Refugee Forum in Geneva coorganized by UNHCR the UN Refugee Agency and the Government of Switzerland

Over the past 24 hours Armenian armed forces have violated the ceasefire along the line of contact between Azerbaijani and Armenian troops 20 times using sniper rifles the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said on Dec 20

New Zealand Minister for Energy and Resources and Minister for Climate Change urged kiwis to have their say on two important environmentalrelated policy decisions to switch New Zealand to full renewable energy and solve the challenge of climate change Xinhua reported

Two volunteer Australian firefighters died while battling blazes around Sydney authorities said on Friday forcing Prime Minister Scott Morrison to cut short a vacation in Hawaii as temperatures were again set to soar Reuters reported

On December 19 the meetings were held at Azerbaijani Parliament with Needs Assessment Mission NAM of OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights ODIHR having arrived on a visit to Azerbaijan in regard with the early parliamentary election press service of Azerbaijani parliament told APA