Russia & CIS

By exporting 932 million cubic meters of gas to Turkey in October Azerbaijan became the countrys largest gas supplier

Azerbaijani oil price has increased on the world markets

Azerbaijans Defense Minister Colonel General Zakir Hasanov and the leadership of the Defense Ministry attended the opening of a new fourstory cadet dormitory commissioned at the Azerbaijan Military Academy AMA named after Heydar Aliyev the ministry told NewsAz

Kazakhstans main state flag is flying halfmast today as a sign of mourning the Bek Air plane crash victims Kazinform reported

A car bomb exploded at a busy security checkpoint in Somalias capital Saturday morning killing at least 20 people police said FRANCE 24 reported

Over the past 24 hours Armenian armed forces have violated the ceasefire along the line of contact between Azerbaijani and Armenian troops 24 times using sniper rifles the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said on Dec 28

Cardiologist Joseph Wiesel from the NYU School of Medicine has filed a lawsuit against Apple claiming the tech giant is unlawfully using his heartbeatmonitoring technology in its Apple Watch Bloomberg reported on Friday Sputnik reported

Twentyeight years pass since the Armenian occupation of Kerkijahan a settlement of strategic importance for Azerbaijans Khankendi city and surrounding districts APA reports

A meeting of AFFAs Disciplinary Committee has been held Apasportaz website reports

A firm run by the daughter of Bruce Lee has sued a Chinese fast food for using the late kungfu stars image in its logo without permission and is seeking over 210 million yuan 30 million in compensation Chinese media outlet The Paper reported

George Michaels sister Melanie Panayiotou was found dead at her home on Christmas Day police have said three years to the day since the singers death

Turkey unveiled its first fully domesticallyproduced car on Friday saying it aimed to eventually produce up to 175000 a year of the electric vehicle in a project expected to cost 22 billion lira 37 billion over 13 years

Hrayr Tovmasyan the chairman of Armenias Constitutional Court was formally charged today with abuse of power Marina Ohanjanyan spokeswoman for the Special Investigation Service told NovostiArmenia news agency

The Bosporus was closed for navigation due to an incident with the Liberianflagged Songa Iridium cargo ship

Russia hopes that Turkey will purchase another batch of air defense systems S400 Deputy Prime Yury Borisov told the roundtheclock television news channel Rossiya24 in an interview TASS reports

The holiday gifts have been presented to lowincome families on the occasion of 31 December World Azerbaijanis Day of Solidarity of and the upcoming New Year on the initiative of President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation Mehriban Aliyeva

The flag will be lowered to halfmast in Embassy of Kazakhstan in Azerbaijan over fatal plane crash in Kazakhstan the Embassy told APA

The European Union may need to extend the deadline for talks about a new trade relationship with Britain European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told French daily Les Echos in an interview published on Friday Reuters reported

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev first lady Mehriban Aliyeva and their daughter Leyla Aliyeva viewed work done at Shahdag Tourism Center

Azerbaijans Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov received the ambassador of the Republic of Sudan Abbas Mustafa Ahmed Abdalla upon the termination of his diplomatic tenure