World’s oldest living person Tanzilya Bisembeyeva has died at the age of 123 in the Astrakhan Region, a local official said.

At least 17 people, alleged drug traffickers, were killed early Wednesday morning during a confrontation between criminals and police officers in Manaus, capital of the northern Brazilian state of Amazonas, local authorities said, reports Trend referring to Xinhuanet.com.

The number of US tourists visiting Azerbaijan has increased, Fuad Nagiyev, Chairman of the State Tourism Agency said at a meeting with a delegation of media representatives from the US Jewish community, travel agencies and entrepreneurs, APA reports.

The election of Azerbaijan as a chairing country in such an authoritative international organization as the Non-Aligned Movement caused concern in the Armenian governmental circles, which is not surprising and was expected, Azerbaijani political expert and TV presenter Zaur Mammadov told Trend.

Two OSCE-supported events launched activities in Turkmenistan aimed at promoting green ports and connectivity in the Caspian Sea region, Trend reports citing OSCE.

A regular meeting of the Council of Defense Ministers of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) has been held in Baku.

If needed, Turkey will expand the safe zone in northern Syria, the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday, APA reports citing Anadolu Agency.

The Azerbaijani ambassador to the US brought the Azerbaijani side’s protest regarding the entry of representative of the illegal regime created in Azerbaijan’s

Vice-President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation Leyla Aliyeva has participated in the 8th Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art held at Russia`s State Tretyakov Gallery, AZERTAC reported.

The resolution adopted by the House of Representatives of the US Congress on Oct. 29, 2019, on the events of 1915 in the Ottoman Empire is clearly politicized, therefore, it won’t contribute in any way to historical research, in particular, research in modern Turkey on the resettlement of Armenians during the World War I, and won’t make any contribution to the dialogue between Armenia and Turkey, Chairman of Azerbaijan’s Center for the Analysis of International Relations Farid Shafiyev said.