A North Korean research institute has developed nano-antibiotic face masks, according to a report by the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

A projection of the Russian flag was shown on the Heydar Aliyev Center's building on April 9.

OPEC members and other oil-exporting nations including Russia held talks on Thursday to try to put an end to the crude price war which began last month after exporters failed to reach an agreement on production cuts amid the global COVID-19-related economic downturn.

"Russia does not recognize Nagorno-Karabakh as an independent state. Its status must be determined through political negotiations. The OSCE Minsk Group is dealing with this," Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a recent news briefing while commenting on the so-called "elections" held by the separatist regime in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, APA's Moscow bureau reports.

Turkey confirmed Thursday that 96 more people died from the coronavirus in the country over the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 908.

Four EU grant agreements in the field of agriculture totaling about EUR 2 million have been registered by the Ministry of Justice of Azerbaijan.

An extraordinary summit of the Turkic Council will be held on April 10 via video conference on the initiative of President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Chairman of the Cooperation Council of Turkic Speaking States Ilham Aliyev.

Canada's coronavirus death toll is set to soar from the current 435 to as high as 22,000 by the end of the pandemic, health officials said on Thursday, while the economy lost a record 1 million jobs last month, Reuters reports.

Two out of three people tested positive for coronavirus in occupied Nagorno Karabakh, RIA Novosti reported.

"The holding of so-called 'elections' in Nagorno-Karabakh on March 31 is a clear violation of international law," said Aisha Farooqui, Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, APA reports.