President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warmly thanked Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and the people of Saudi Arabia on Tuesday evening following his brief visit to the Saudi capital Riyadh, Anadolu reported.

In April, China will launch a cargo spacecraft into orbit as part of a schedule to develop an international space station as soon as 2020.

It would be "unwise" to wait too long to raise interest rates again, the Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said Tuesday, Anadolu Agency reports.

The talks in Astana have been originally scheduled for February 15-16 in behind-closed-doors format followed by a joint news conference with participation of representatives from attending delegations, TASS reports.

None of the political parties and party alliances hurries to submit the necessary documents to the Central Electoral Commission for the participation in the parliamentary elections in Armenia, though there are two days left before the deadline.

Azerbaijan plans to send trade missions to five more countries this year, President of Azerbaijan Export and Investment Promotion Foundation (AZPROMO) Rufat Mammadov has told a joint meeting of the Azerbaijan Club of Exporters and the American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM).

The European Union's decision-making process should be changed to ensure states openly take a stand on controversial issues, the EU Commission proposed on Tuesday, in a move aimed at tackling growing euroscepticism, APA reports quoting Reuters.

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Diplomacy at the US Department of State Robin Dunnigan will represent the country in the meeting of the Southern Gas Corridor Advisory Council to be held in Baku Feb.23, Trend learned from the US Department of State.

The US is not applying the same rules and actions to all the states in the world equally when it comes to the international law, Kamal Makili-Aliyev, an independent analyst, wrote in his article for the Modern Diplomacy, Trend reports.

An opening ceremony of the "House of Azerbaijan" took place in Barcelona.