New excise rates applied to motor gasoline types on which excise tax is levied on the territory of Azerbaijan have been publicized, APA reports.

Excise on tobacco and tobacco products imported to Azerbaijan has been doubled.

The Cabinet of Ministers of Azerbaijan has approved new rates of excises on imported goods, APA-Economics reported.

North Korea is only a "handful of months" away from being able to strike the mainland United States with a nuclear weapon, and Washington is working to extend that timeline, the head of the Central Intelligence Agency has said, Yonhap News reports.

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has met with Vice President of Business Development for Chevron Corporation Jay Pryor in Davos.

Azerbaijan`s state oil firm SOCAR has opened its second filling station in Brasov, Romania, increasing the number of its gas stations in the country to 39.

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has met with President of Russian LUKOIL company Vahid Alakbarov in Davos, APA reports.

The working visit of President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev to the Swiss Confederation to participate in the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum began, APA rpeorts.

The Turkish Armed Forces and the Free Syrian Army (FSA) on Monday captured the strategically important Mt. Barsaya in Afrin, Syria, according to Anadolu Agency correspondents in the region.

The meeting was held in the Ministry of Justice with the participation of all local bodies of executive services, as well as heads of the relevant departments of the ministry, to discuss the work done last year in the field of execution of judgments and other decisions, and also forthcoming tasks.