Baku has completed a week of octane-fuelled racing, high-level security facilitation and secured record investments in one of its most dynamic events-filled weeks of the year.
Russia's recruitment drive targeting Belarusians has become a key tool to boost manpower on the battlefield and exploits economic hardship and isolation.
Earlier this month, 12 countries announced new trade sanctions on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank amid what they called a "rapidly deteriorating" situation marked by increasing settler attacks on Palestinians.
The Houthis declared a naval blockade of Saudi Arabia in July and have since been launching increasing attacks on Saudi cities and shipping, further heightening tensions in the Middle East.
Dozens of southern right whale calves have been found dead on Argentina's Patagonian coast. Scientists are probing a possible bacterial infection after an unusually deadly season.
The US Army is considering deploying medical, logistics and military police units as the Pentagon keeps plans ready for possible action in Cuba, according to an exclusive CBS News report.