Protests broke out throughout Iran Saturday after the government moved to effectively hike the price of gasoline by 50 percent overnight.

Angry protesters parked cars in the streets to block traffic in more than a dozen cities, and crowds numbering in the thousands marched throughout the country, many chanting, “Down with the dictator” and other anti-government slogans.

Some shouted, “The enemy is here!” a reference to the government’s continued vilification of the US.

During the winter months, gas prices will not rise, Armenian Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan said during parliamentary scrutiny. He answered a question from the MP from the parliamentary faction of the “My Step” political party, Gevork Papoyan, about the possibility of increasing gas tariffs for consumers in 2020. The information is ofrom the Armenian online issue “Aysor.am”.

Nagorno-Karabakh has always been an integral part of Azerbaijan, President Ilham Aliyev said, during the opening of the Second Summit of Religious Leaders.

“In ancient times, Nagorno-Karabakh was Azerbaijani territory. On all ancient maps and on the maps of Tsarist Russia, all toponyms in Nagorno-Karabakh are of Azerbaijani origin”, stated President Aliyev, quoted by “Interfax Azerbaijan”.

The Central Election Commission (CEC) of Georgia will send representatives to Azerbaijan to monitor the municipal elections to be held on December 23, Ana Mikeladze, Spokesperson of the Georgian Centralen Election Commission (CEC) told Georgian bureau of “Report”.

According to her, the Central Election Commission of Georgia has already received an invitation from the CEC of Azerbaijan:

Within the framework of operational exercises throughout the whole Azerbaijan Army, the Navy carries out its assigned tasks.

According to the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense, following the exercise plan, the tactical groups of ships involved in the maneuvers, accurately and effectively carry out their tasks in the Caspian Sea.

Source: https://minval.az/news/123936029 

A group of journalists from Armenia  will arrive in Baku on November 17 as part of mutual confidence-building measures. “Turan” became aware of this on the sidelines of the “Eastern Partnership Media Conference 2019” held in Riga.

Armenian journalists will visit a number of government agencies and meet with experts.

The exchange of visits by journalists is provided by шге agreements at the level of heads of state, as a part of humanitarian measures to build mutual trust.

Georgian Prime Minister's Special Representative for Relations with Russia - Zurab Abashidze, has said that the opening of a road linking the Chechen village of Itum-Kale and the Georgian Shatili is not planned. Moreover, such a question has never been discussed, Minval.az reports, citing Kvira.ge.

Abashidze thus commented on the call of the Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov to open the road between the two villages, mentioned above.

In 2020, the Swiss company “Calyx Capital Advisors” will move its plant for the production of control panels for home appliances, from Poland to the Ukraine. This was reported on November 11, 2019 by “Ukraine Business News” (UBN).

The company will be located in Ivano-Frankivsk, where it will employ about 1000 people.

In the framework of operational exercises, conducted with the participation of the Azerbaijani army as a whole, the units of the Nakhchivan garrison troops were alerted with a combat alarm on the 12-th of  November 2019 and are in the state of combat readiness.

Turkey has deported to Denmark a 28-year-old Palestinian man who is a Danish citizen - Ahmad Salem al Haya, who participated in the hostilities in Syria on the side of terrorist formations. He had already landed at Copenhagen Airport on Monday evening, where police detained him, Danish Radio reports.