Since the beginning of August, Russian air defenses at the Hmeimim airbase in Syria have downed a total of 16 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) launched by militants operating in the Idlib de-escalation zone, Maj. Gen. Alexei Tsygankov, head of the Russian Center for Syrian Reconciliation, said Tuesday, Sputnik reported.

The dollar advanced to a 13-month peak on Tuesday against a basket of major currencies as traders increased their safe-haven holdings of the U.S. currency on worries about the fallout from the Turkish lira’s recent fall.

European hotel classification will be introduced in Azerbaijan, Vice President of the umbrella Association of Hotels, Restaurants, Pubs and Cafes and similar establishments in Europe (HOTREC) Akos Niklai said at a press conference in Baku Aug. 14.

The National Monitoring Department on Environment of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources carried out the next monitoring with the purpose of investigation of the contamination level of Kura and Araz transboundary rivers, as well as their transboundary confluents.

A bus carrying travelers from Colombia and Venezuela crashed in Ecuador early Tuesday, killing 24 people and injuring 18 others, officials said, Press TV reported.

Nowadays, many in Armenia wonder when the Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan will end his revolutionary show and begin the real implementation of the promises he made during the “velvet revolution” this April.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva expressed condolences to Italian President Sergio Mattarella in connection with the collapse of a bridge in the Italian city of Genoa.

There are no Azerbaijanis among the victims of the bridge collapse in the Italian city of Genoa, Spokesman of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry Hikmet Hajiyev told Trend Aug. 14.

Armenian activists protesting in Yerevan are collecting signatures under a petition they will send to the Supreme Judicial Council to demand that it fires Court of Appeals judge Aleksandr Azaryan, who ruled to free former president Robert Kocharyan.