Russia & CIS

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will hold meetings with US Democratic presidential nominee Hilary Clinton and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in New York on Sunday, Sputnik reported.

Armenian armed units violated ceasefire a total of nine times throughout the day using large caliber machine guns.

The book provides an insight into the historical background of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Brent crude futures LCOc1 settled down $1.76, or 3.7 percent, at $45.89 a barrel.

London's Madame Tussauds museum said on Wednesday it had separated its wax figure replicas of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt after the Hollywood power couple announced their split.

Four people have been shot dead at a mall in northwest Washington state and the gunman has fled the scene, police said on social media on Friday.

The executive is said to have undertaken “painstaking work” towards cutting the revenues in the 2017 State Budget.

The Committee of Ministers in the Council of Europe said the current Georgian Government had addressed the issue of prison overcrowding.

Azerbaijani grandmaster Nijat Abbasov tops the A tournament of the International Chess Festival Baku Open 2016.

Leaders of movements and which stand for independence of their regions will gather in Moscow at a conference ‘The right of people to self-determination and building a multipolar world.’ Why have only Western separatists been invited? Does the Kremlin fund them? And isn’t it a nonsense – to support separatists, while it's prohibited in Russia?

In 2012, Asghar Farhadi received Iran's first Oscar when "A Separation" won best foreign film.

Russia's space agency says a manned launch to the International Space Station that had been scheduled for next week has been postponed.

Secretary of State John Kerry said that the United States urges the international community to appoint a special UN representative for IDPs.

The total prize fund of the tournament is USD 25,000.

Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev has cancelled trip to UN General Assembly due to health problems.

Erdogan says Turkey’s operation in Syria, Euphrates Shield, which started on August 24, has cleared border regions from Islamic State.

Opposition "National Council" block held an action on September 17 in protest of upcoming referendum on changes to the Constitution.

President Aliyev signed an order on allocation of funds for repair of apartment blocks in Azerbaijani region os Sabirabad.

Syria’s military blamed rebel groups for undermining the cease-fire that aimed to bring the country's bloody five-year civil war to an end.