The death toll as a result of the terrorist attack in Crocus has reached 140 people

Speaker of the Milli Majlis of Azerbaijan Sahiba Gafarova to Montenegro met with the President of this Balkan country, Yakov Milatovich as part of the official visit. According to the press service of the Milli Majlis, Gafarova conveyed to Milatovich the invitation of the President of Azerbaijan to participate in the Baku climate conference COP29. The parties  discussed the prospects of bilateral relations. Milatovich noted with satisfaction that Azerbaijan is one of the main investors in Montenegro. Stressing the high level of cooperation, he emphasized the development of ties in the field of tourism.

A bipartisan group of U.S..lawmakers on Friday introduced a bill that would enable sanctions against senior Azerbaijani officials for their role in the Karabakh war, and human rights violations, including violent repression of political opposition, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.

The Biden administration said on Friday that reauthorizing the Global Engagement Center (GEC), a State Department agency that’s tasked with combating foreign propaganda and disinformation, "is a priority."

A group of top U.S. Senators led by Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), along with 12 of their colleagues, on Friday sent in a bipartisan letter to Georgia's Prime Minister expressing their strongest concern over the re-introduction of a law that would force NGOs and independent media that receive more than 20 percent of their funding from foreign donors to register as "foreign agents," TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.