Turkish authorities are putting up a concrete wall along the country's border with Syria after the recent wave of terrorist attacks hitting the southern border regions.
Albania, Montenegro, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Ukraine have been added to the Russian food embargo import list, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev announced Thursday.
Deputy Chairman and Executive Secretary of the New Azerbaijan Party (YAP), Deputy Prime Minister Ali Ahmadov has met with British Ambassador to Azerbaijan Irfan Siddiq at the party’s headquarters.
The Baku Court on Grave Crimes on Thursday continued the trial of Leyla Yunus, the imprisoned director of the Institute for Peace and Democracy (IPD), and his husband Arif Yunus.
A group of lawmakers from the Communist fraction of Russia's lower house of parliament has introduced a bill aimed at redistributing foodstuffs confiscated under Russia's food embargo to those in need, and as humanitarian aid to conflict zones, the body's press service announced on Thursday.
Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi says the Islamic Republic will continue research and development (R&D) activities in the field of nuclear energy, Press TV reports.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Trutnev said that construction for the Russian section of the first railway bridge to cross the Amur river and connect the country with China will begin in late 2015.