Turkey regards the EU membership as a "strategic aim", Presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said on Thursday, Anadolu Agency reports.

Russian capital Moscow will host the 9th International Mstislav Rostropovich Festival from March 27 to April 3.

At least 15 people were killed and almost 20 others were wounded in an explosion in Banaee area in Kabul’s PD9 on Thursday evening.

The search for the mountaineers who disappeared on the territory of the Guba region continued on January 4, APA reports.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Thursday declared a state of emergency for New York, Westchester and Long Island in light of severe snowstorm that hit the northeastern part of the United States, Sputnik reports.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has signed an order on additional measures on construction of Afatli-Hajiturali-Hasankhanli motor road in Aghdam district.

Cate Blanchett, the double Oscar-winning actress leading a Hollywood campaign to tackle sexual harassment in the workplace, will head the jury at this year's Cannes Film Festival, organizers said on Thursday.

The year 2018 started in Armenia with the rise in price of gasoline, diesel fuel and gas at filling stations.

In December 2017, agent banks of Azerbaijan Mortgage and Credit Guarantee Fund CJSC issued 500 loans worth over 36.6 million manats, said a message posted on the fund’s website.

Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gholam Ali Khoshroo slammed the US government’s recent wide-ranging attempts to intervene in the domestic affairs of the