Russia & CIS

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will formally step down as senior royals from 31 March a spokesperson for the couple has said BBC News reported

The body of the missing Azerbaijani soldier Akif Abbasov has been recovered from a neutral zone said Ilaha Huseynova head of the Public Relations Department of the International Committee of the Red Cross ICRC Azerbaijan Office

Australia set up a national inquiry Thursday into its monthlong bushfire crisis that affected three in four Australians and prompted widespread criticism of the government for its sluggish response to the blazes AFP reported

Azerbaijani oil price has increased on the world markets

Azerbaijans tourism products were presented to 25 Belarussian travel companies at the Travel Connections Minsk event in Minsk AZERTAC reported

A lecture dedicated to Azerbaijan was held at the San Diego State University SDSU in California Founded in 1897 SDSU is one of the oldest universities in California and has over 35000 students

Two passengers from a coronavirushit cruise ship moored near Tokyo have died and 29 people were in a serious condition Japanese media reported on Thursday as a second group of passengers disembarked after twoweeks quarantined onboard

Azerbaijans triple jumper Nazim Babayev has won silver at an international tournament in Lievin France booking a spot in the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games

Over the past 24 hours Armenian armed forces have violated the ceasefire along the line of contact between Azerbaijani and Armenian troops 23 times using heavy machine guns the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry reported on Feb 20

At least eight people were killed in two shootings at shisha bars in Germany with an unknown number of attackers still at large police and media said AFP reported

The death toll in China from the coronavirus outbreak has risen to 2120 the countrys National Health Commission said Thursday Anadolu Agency reported

Silicon Valley on Wednesday was mourning a pioneering computer scientist whose accomplishments included inventing the widely relied on cut copy and paste command AFP reported

Syrian video journalist Abdallah alMuhammad has invented a game to cushion his young daughter from the trauma of hearing the deafening cacophony of airstrikes and shelling near his home in northwest Syrias Idlib

A mass skirmish occurred between Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Russian capital city Moscow chairman of the Azerbaijani National Cultural Autonomy of OchakovoMatveyevskoye District of Moscow Ali Kazimov told APAs local bureau

NewsAz reprints from Vestnik Kavkaza an article titled Another Munich fake of Pashinyan by Andrei Uglanov

Junior Azerbaijani judokas will compete at the Warsaw European Open 2020 to be held in the Polish capital from February 29 to March 1 AzerTag reports

On February 21 a commemorative event will be held in connection with the 28th anniversary of the Khojaly tragedy The event will take place in the Presidential Forest Khojaly 613 Grove Israel

Prices for shares of the worlds largest companies have become known

Two Iranians have died in hospital after testing positive for the new coronavirus in the holy Shiite city of Qom the head of the citys University of Medical Sciences told Mehr news agency on Wednesday APA reports

A quake has struck in the Caspian Sea the National Seismological Service Center under Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences told APA