Mikail Jabbarov appointed minister of taxes instead of Fazil Mammadov

An indictment has been announced in the Baku Serious Crimes Court at the trial of activist Ilhamiz Guliyev. The activist rejected the accusations of drug trafficking and claimed that the criminal case was falsified. At the beginning of the trial, Guliyev petitioned to present to the court the mobile phone seized from him during his detention. He said that photos of operatives who followed him and later participated in the arrest got on the phone.   However, the court left the petition without consideration.

A series of blows to press freedom globally, including in Azerbaijan, has put more pressure on the Biden administration during the past few weeks to defend journalism as a part of its foreign policy platform, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.

The second meeting of the Speakers of the Azerbaijani and Armenian Parliaments Sahiba Gafarova and Alen Simonyan took place on 16 May within the framework of the first session of the Organising Committee of the VI World Conference of Speakers of Parliaments held in Geneva.

As Russian forces continue to attack Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv, seeking to build on recent gains in Ukraine’s strategically important northeastern region, the U.S. officials said on Thursday that they expect "real difference" on the battlefield following the latest military aid that was announced by Secretary of State during his trip to Kyiv, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.