Azerbaijani grandmaster Shahriyar Mammadyarov will contest medals at the sixth annual Altibox Norway Chess tournament to be held in Stavanger, AzerTag reports.
The last living Holocaust survivor who participated in the revolt and escape from the Sobibor death camp, Semyon Rosenfeld, died at the age of 97 in a hospital in Rehovot, near Tel Aviv, according to the Israeli authorities.
Negotiations on the purchase of Boeing 737 Max-8 aircraft with Boeing Corporation are still underway. Implementation of the signed contract is planned to be rescheduled from 2019 to 2024, according to Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) CJSC.
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has appointed ex-President of the country Leonid Kuchma Ukrainian representative to the Contact Group on peaceful settlement in Donbass, ONA reports citing TASS.
The killing of Agil Omarov, an officer of the Azerbaijani army, while the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs were in the region, was planned for the purpose of provocation, Sahiba Gafarova, Azerbaijani MP from the ruling New Azerbaijan Party, told Trend.
Britain rolled out the royal red carpet for Donald Trump on Monday but the pomp, pageantry and banquet with Queen Elizabeth looked set to be overshadowed by the U.S. President’s views on Brexit, the UK’s next leader and a row over China’s Huawei.
Azerbaijani MP Sahiba Gafarova will visit the capital of Serbia, Belgrade, on June 4-6, to attend a meeting of the PACE Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination, Trend reports on June 3.
Sudan's military rulers forcefully broke up a weeks-long sit-in outside Khartoum's army headquarters on Monday leaving at least 13 dead, a doctors' committee said as gunfire echoed from the site, AFP reports.
