Motorists urged not to use personal transport because of “Formula 1”

Last week, during a visit to Italy, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev spoke about the improvement of his country's strained relations with the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). He mentioned that the ban on certain PACE members visiting Azerbaijan would be lifted once the country's delegation returns to the organization: "If they change their decisions and restore our rights, then this so-called embargo will also be lifted."

Police in the city of Sumgait arrested Sakit Musaev, born in 1988, on charges of illegal drug trafficking over the past weekend, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs' press service. During a search of Musaev's home, authorities discovered 50 kg of heroin, as well as marijuana laced with psychoactive substances, opium, and methamphetamine. The statement indicates that Musaev had obtained the drugs from an Iranian individual by retrieving them from a hidden stash. He planned to distribute the drugs to various addresses in exchange for monetary compensation.

Bakcell, the largest private mobile operator in the country, will receive strategic partnership support from a leading European and African telecommunications company, Vodafone Group.

On Sunday, 8 September the weather in Baku and Apsheron peninsula will be predominantly without precipitation, moderate north-east wind will blow. Air temperature will be +18+23 at night and +27+31 during the day, the National Hydro-meteorological Service of the Ministry of Ecology reports.