At least 10 people died when a fire ripped through a hospital in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday evening, firefighters said, Reuters reports.

Ashgabat has hosted the fifth meeting of the intergovernmental Turkmen-Azerbaijani commission on economic cooperation, Trend reports with reference to Turkmen Foreign Ministry.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Ankara, Turkey, on September 16 to take part in a trilateral summit on Syria, as well as will meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President of Iran Hassan Rouhani, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, TASS informs.

Illegal "elections" in Nagorno Karabakh are an indicator of the hopeless situation in which the junta regime has fallen, Head of the Azerbaijani community of the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan Tural Ganjaliyev told reporters, Trend reports.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has signed an Order on measures to continue elimination of the consequences of the earthquake in Shamakhi district, AzerTag reports.

Morocco was chosen on Thursday in St Petersburg to host the 24th General Assembly of the World Tourism Organization in 2021, AzerTag reports citing MAP.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), over 41 percent of the world's population lives at risk of contracting malaria, which has become the most common disease among vector-borne parasitic diseases, Trend reports referring to the Azerbaijani Ministry of Health.

A meeting of the board of the ruling New Azerbaijan Party was held, Trend reports on Sept. 13.

Young Azerbaijani fighters will test their strength at the 22nd Budapest Open International Karate Championships to be held in Hungary on September 14-15.

The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group must demonstrate a decisive stance in connection with the so-called "elections to local self-government bodies" held in the occupied Azerbaijani territories, Chairman of the Azerbaijani State Committee for Affairs of Refugees and IDPs Rovshan Rzayev told reporters in Baku, Trend reports on Sept. 13.