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Ukraine will retaliate after a Russian missile strike killed at least 29 people and damaged a children's hospital in Kyiv, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday during a visit to Warsaw during which he signed a security pact with Poland, News.Az reports citing Reuters.

In a video, Belarusian expert Alexey Avdonin discusses that Belarus' membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is the result of meticulous and long-term efforts that the country has made with this organization and its key members, primarily China and the Russian Federation.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant called Monday for not missing the current opportunity to reach a Gaza cease-fire deal that includes a prisoner swap with Hamas.

Lithuania on Monday urged the European Union to provide financial support to strengthen Baltic country’s border protection with Russia, News.Az reports citing foreign media.

The work on the establishment of the International Advisory Committee for COP29 consisting of several authoritative foreign representatives is being finalized, Head of the Presidential Administration of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Chairman of the Organizing Committee for the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) Samir Nuriyev said at the fifth meeting of the Committee on July 8, News.Az reports.

Iran’s commercial attaché to Afghanistan reported an increase of $123 million worth of the country’s non-oil exports to the neighboring Afghanistan in the first three months of this year of 1403 in the Iranian calendar, News.Az reports citing Iranian media.

The US employment trends index (ETI) fell in June, New York-based research group the Conference Board said in a statement on Monday, News.Az reports citing Anadolu Agency.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has had a telephone conversation with the newly elected President of Iran Masoud Pezeshkian, said the press service of the Turkish leader.

The final text of the Host Country Agreement between the Government of Azerbaijan and the Secretariat of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will be ready soon, Head of the Presidential Administration of the Republic of Azerbaijan Samir Nuriyev said at the fifth meeting of the COP29 Organizing Committee, News.Az reports.