President Donald Trump on Thursday pulled the U.S. out of an historic accord aimed at combating climate change, breaking with the overwhelming majority of the world's countries, APA reports quoting CNN.

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has sent a congratulatory letter to President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella, according to Trend.

The United States on Thursday blacklisted nine companies and government institutions, including two Russian firms, and three people for their support of North Korea's weapons program, the Treasury Department said in a statement.

Azerbaijan is an important strategic and economic partner of Bulgaria, said Bulgarian Ambassador Maya Hristova, Trend reports.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed amendments to the country's law on presidential election, the Kremlin said Thursday.

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Azerbaijan to Uzbekistan Huseyn Guliyev held talks at the Uzbek Foreign Ministry on June 1.

A former Auschwitz concentration camp guard who was sentenced to five years in prison last year as an accessory to the murder of more than 170,000 people has died aged 95, his lawyer has confirmed.

Azerbaijan and Belarus discussed the prospects of development of bilateral relations in the defense sphere, Trend reports.

In May 2017, Marketing and Economic Operations Department under the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan exported 9,996 tonnes of diesel fuel, 1,783 tonnes of aviation fuel, 6,178 tonnes of liquid pyrolysis resin, 7,746 tonnes of high-pressure polyethylene, 2,911 tonnes of propylene and 2,084 tonnes of butylene-butadiene fraction.

Turkey will continue to actively fight against terrorism, Turkish media cited Hulusi Akar, head of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, as saying June 1.