The United States on Friday charged nine Iranians and an Iranian company with attempting to hack into hundreds of U.S. and international universities, dozens of companies and parts of the U.S. government on behalf of the Tehran government, Reuters reported.

News.Az reprints from Bakinsky Rabochiy an article titled "The Big Four: Why the Foreign Ministers of Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran and Turkey first met in Baku" by Firuza Bagirova.

Throughout 2017, Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk and his team conducted monitoring exercises, providing a continuous review of the situation on the ground related to the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, according to OSCE’s 2017 report.

Eight people are being held captive in a supermarket in the southwestern France town of Trebes, a police source said March 23, adding that the hostage-taker had shot at a police officer, Reuters reported.

Bern has hosted high-level bilateral consultations between Azerbaijan and Switzerland as an Azerbaijani delegation led by Deputy Foreign Minister Mahmud Mammadguliyev held a series of meetings with Swiss officials.

Printing of voting bulletins for the presidential election scheduled for April 11 in Azerbaijan will start on March 24, Trend reports.

Owners of a total of 70 hectares of agricultural plots in a number of villages near the town of Etchmiadzin, namely, in the Teghut region, have lately been faced with irrigation problems, a resident of one of the villages, whose land is located in the same area and who wished to remain anonymous, told this Epress.am on Wednesday.

An Azerbaijani citizen was detained while attempting to smuggle 40 kilograms of gold and silver jewelry to Georgia, Deputy Chairman of the Investigative Service of the Georgian Ministry of Finance Vazha Navrozashvili said at a briefing on March 23, APA’s local bureau reports.

The European Union is recalling its ambassador from Moscow for consultations over the nerve gas attack against a former spy in Britain earlier this month, reinforcing a united stand with Prime Minister Theresa May against Russia, APA reports quoting The Washington Post.