The Moldovan government declaring Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin a persona non-grata is absolutely unacceptable, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday, Sputniknews reports.

The U.S. economy will be strong enough for the Federal Reserve to trim its bond holdings "this fall," San Francisco Fed President John Williams said on Wednesday, in a sign the central bank was close to unwinding a controversial stimulus tool, Reuters reported.

An explosion has occurred in Yerevan, Armenia, news.am website reported on Aug. 2.

About 2,000 tools of the Neolithic period (about the 8th - 3rd millennia BC) were discovered during archaeological excavations on the territory of the State Historical-Cultural Reserve Avey in the Gazakh region of Azerbaijan, AzerNews reports.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday that the United States declared a full-fledged trade war by introducing new anti-Russia sanctions, adding that there is no chance that the relations between the two states will improve, Sputniknews reports.

Romanian coach Mircea Lucescu took over as the Turkish national team head coach on Aug. 2, three days after Fatih Terim’s departure, APA reports quoting Hurriye

The Russian embassy’s compound in Damascus came under mortar fire today, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

Fire broke out in a residential house in Yerevan’s Leningradyan street on Wednesday. Several people have been injured.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has signed an order on additional measures to ensure the activities of the new Baku International Sea Trade Port.

The command structure of the Turkish Armed Forces has been changed at a meeting of the Supreme Military Council held in Turkey Aug. 2, the country’s media outle