Heavy snow has killed 13 people in east China's Anhui Province since Jan. 3, the provincial government announced on Friday, Xinhua reported.

Inam Karimov, Chairman of the State Agency for Public Services and Social Innovations under the President of Azerbaijan (ASAN Service) has met with Reyhan Jamalova, who represented Azerbaijan at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) in India with Rainergy device, which generates energy from rainwater.

Ayaz Aliyev has been appointed head of the Office of Azerbaijan’s Economy Ministry, Trend reports.

The United States and Europe have got sick and tired of urging the Armenian authorities to combat corruption as a key impediment undermining the state, according to Manvel Sargsyan, Director of the Armenian Center for National and International Studies.

Slightly fewer than half as many migrants reached Europe by sea in 2017 than 2016, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Friday, with curbs finally cutting traffic on the deadly route from Libya to Italy, Reuters reports.

Turkey has got "tired" of its EU membership process and it cannot request for the bloc's membership indefinitely, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday, Anadolu reported.

Turkey took a step on Friday towards closer defence cooperation with France and Italy with a contract for a study into the development and production of a long-range air and missile defence system, APA reports quoting Reuters.

The search for missing climbers in the Guba region continued on January 5.

The Azerbaijani movie "The Steppe Man" (Cholchu) has been nominated for Goddess Nike Award of the Gold Movie Awards Film Festival.

A magnitude 3 earthquake occurred at about 19:00 (GMT +4) in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea, Gurban Yetirmishli, director of the Republican Seismic Survey Center (RSSC) of Azerbaijan’s National Academy of Sciences (ANAS), told Trend.