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AZERTAC presents the top news as of 20:00 today:

 

 

 

 

Baku, August 18, AZERTAC

President Ilham Aliyev received credentials of newly appointed UK Ambassador to Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan conveys firm protest to Russian ambassador over anti-Azerbaijani statements

Azerbaijan’s exports of pearls, precious metals and jewellery rise more than 20-fold

Azerbaijani journalists tour Uzbekistan’s National Children’s Medical Center

Trump says no talks with Iran underway or scheduled

Foreign observers from 42 countries to monitor Kazakhstan’s Qurultay elections

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