22-year-old Azerbaijani boxer Magomed Abdullayev, performing in the weight category over 91 kg, defeated his opponent from Bahrain Danis Latipov in the 1/16 finals. The fight ended with a score of 3-1 in favour of Abdullayev. In the 1/8 …
Armenian national team gymnast Artur Davtyan reached the finals of the Tokyo Olympics in the vault. He scored 14.866 points and finished second in his subgroup. The athlete from South Korea became the first with the same score. Artur …
A group of ISIS militants (an organization banned in Russia) was detained in Iran. Terrorists tried to infiltrate Iranian territory through Khuzestan province from neighbouring Iraq. They were disguised as women, Pars Today reports. …
Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan have agreed on the inadmissibility of any work on the disputed section of the border, where the shootout took place today. A meeting of border guards of the two countries was held today in the Batken district …
In Abkhazia, Russian tourists who went out into the open sea on paddle boards in the evening were rescued. "During the control mission at night in conditions of limited visibility at a considerable distance from the coast, a group …
Acting Assistant Secretary of State for the Middle East, Joey Hood, will visit Algeria, Morocco and Kuwait on July 24-29, the press service of the State Department informed. In Algeria, the American diplomat will meet with the …
In Dagestan, due to the holidays, for the second week in a row, the weekends coincide with non-working days. This week Dagestanis are resting due to the celebration of the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha. The next week begins with …
The first sets of Taekwondo awards were played out today at the Tokyo Olympics. Russian athlete Mikhail Artamonov (58 kg) won the first Russian bronze at the Olympic games. Having lost in the semi-finals, Artamonov defeated Argentine …
2 617 new cases of coronavirus were detected in Georgia in the last 24 hours, InterPressNews reports citing stopcov.ge. 43 394 tests were performed in the last 24 hours. As a result, 2 617 newly confirmed cases of the infection …
Afghanistan imposed a night curfew on 31 provinces of the country's 34 provinces under the deteriorating security, a state-run TV channel reported on Saturday, Xinhua reports. According to Radio Television of Afghanistan (RTA), it …
Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated his Uzbek counterpart Shavkat Mirziyoyev on his birthday over the phone and discussed with him the issues of strategic partnership and alliance, the Kremlin press service said on Saturday, TASS …
The funeral ceremony of Warrant Officer Farman Yagublu, who was killed yesterday by a sniper of the Armenian Armed Forces on the Kalbajar section of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, took place this morning. Yagublu became the first soldier to die …
Russia confirmed 23,947 COVID-19 cases over the past day, bringing the total caseload to 6,102,469, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Saturday. The number of cases grew by 0.39% in relative terms, TASS reports. Moscow …
Turkey has administered more than 65 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines since it launched a mass vaccination campaign in January, according to figures released on July 23, Hurriyet daily news reports. The country is …
High-level diplomats from the US and Russia will meet in Geneva next week to discuss future arms control and "risk reduction measures," the US State Department said in a statement on Friday, DW reports. Deputy …
Karim Veliyev has been appointed Chief of the General Staff of the Azerbaijani Army, Trend reported on July 23. President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev signed an order on the release of Lieutenant General Karim Valiyev from the post …
The first gold medal of the Tokyo Olympics goes to Qian Yang from China, after the 21-year-old came out on top in the women's 10 meter air rifle competition. Yang narrowly beat out Russia's Anastasiia Galashina and set an …
16 regions of Kazakhstan are in the ‘red zone’, the highest in a three-tier system used in Kazakhstan in terms of spread of the coronavirus infection, Kazinform reports. As of July 24, Nur-Sultan, Almaty and Shymkent cities …
Moscow has no plans yet to remove the Taliban (outlawed in Russia) from its list of banned organizations, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Friday. "There is nothing new on the matter. If there is any news, we will …
One of the servicemen of the Azerbaijani Army was martyred on July 23, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense reported on Friday. "At about 16:00 (GMT+4) on July 23, units of the Armenian Armed Forces from positions in the Basarkecher …
