BAKU, JAN 27 – As many as 1,374 people continue the struggle for MP mandates in Azerbaijan, Trend reports Jan. 27. Meanwhile, 263 candidates withdrew their candidacies at various stages of the election process. A total of 2,431 people applied to participate in the early parliamentary elections to be held in Azerbaijan on Feb. 9, 2020.

Kobe Bryant, one of the NBA’s all-time greatest players whose international stardom transcended basketball, was killed at age 41 on Sunday in a helicopter crash near Los Angeles along with his 13-year-old daughter and seven others on board, officials said. Bryant rocketed to fame as an 18-year-old rookie and played 20 years for the Los Angeles Lakers — 18 of them as an all-star — winning five NBA championships. His death sent shockwaves through the National Basketball Association, which he helped propel to global prominence, and stunned fans around theRead More

BEIJING, – Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Monday visited Wuhan, the epicenter of an outbreak of a new coronavirus that has killed 80 and infected more than 2,700 people, as Beijing sought to signal how seriously it aims to respond to the developing crisis. Meanwhile, Wuhan said it would suspend visa and passport services for Chinese citizens until January 30 to strengthen control of the virus, the city’s exit-entry bureau said in a statement on Monday. The number of deaths from the flu-like virus in Hubei province, including Wuhan city, climbed fromRead More

BAKU JAN 27 – “Preparations for the parliamentary elections to be held on February 9 are successfully underway in Jalilabad village constituency #68,” chairman of the Constituency Election Commission Mehman Rzayev told. Mehman Rzayev noted that 10 candidates running for the upcoming parliamentary elections have been registered from the constituency with 40,680 voters. Rzayev said that 74 observers have been registered to monitor the election process. According to him, web cameras installed in 5 out of 34 stations in the constituency have been made operational. Underlining their readiness to theRead More