Ramiz Mehdiyev fired

Kyrgyz President Sadyr Zhaparov arrived in Azerbaijan on an official visit today.

The United States on Tuesday expressed support for the ongoing peaceful protests in Georgia against a Kremlin-inspired law that could be used to label political opponents as "foreign agents", and urged against any steps that would turn the protests violent, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a sweeping foreign aid package, ending months of bitter fighting over the support for Ukraine that had deeply divided the Republican Party. The measure, which would guarantee $95bn in mostly military aid for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and American partners in the Indo-Pacific, passed by a vote of 79 to 18 and now goes to President Biden for his signature.

Elnur Hasanov, an activist of the Popular Front Party, has been on hunger strike for the sixth day in the Baku pre-trial detention center-1. Today the head of the operational regime department of the Penitentiary Service, Fikret Gafarov, appeared in the pre-trial detention center, who listened to Hasanov, Turan was told in the PPFA.  He promised to consider his demands and make decisions on them.