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Today, 10 October, the CIS Heads of State Council meeting is underway in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, in a limited format attended by leaders from member states.
The agenda includes adopting crucial documents related to regional security, military cooperation through 2030, counterterrorism efforts for 2026–2028, border security, and collaboration on transnational crime and energy security.
Notably, the council is set to approve the creation of the "CIS+" format, a new platform intended to allow third countries and international organizations to engage with selected CIS activities.
Additionally, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation is expected to receive observer status within the CIS during this session.
Azerbaijan is actively involved in these developments, underscoring its intent to play a key role in regional stability and cooperation within the CIS framework.
The summit marks a significant moment for the CIS as it approaches its 35th anniversary next year, with forward-looking initiatives to strengthen its international standing and operational effectiveness.
This meeting of the Heads of State Council thus serves as both a platform for reaffirming existing partnerships and exploring new avenues of cooperation in a complex geopolitical environment.
Video from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) showed on Friday (19 September) the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupting and spewing lava.
At least eight people have died and more than 90 others were injured following a catastrophic gas tanker explosion on a major highway in Mexico City’s Iztapalapa district on Wednesday, authorities confirmed.
At least 69 people have died and almost 150 injured following a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Cebu City in the central Visayas region of the Philippines, officials said, making it one of the country’s deadliest disasters this year.
Authorities in California have identified the dismembered body discovered in a Tesla registered to singer D4vd as 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who had been missing from Lake Elsinore since April 2024.
A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on 13 September with no tsunami threat, coming just weeks after the region endured a devastating 8.8-magnitude quake — the strongest since 1952.
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for promoting democratic rights in her country and her struggle to achieve a transition to democracy, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said.
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Peru's Congress voted unanimously on Friday to remove President Dina Boluarte from office in a late-night session held hours after political blocs from across the spectrum called for her ouster.
A powerful magnitude 7.5 offshore earthquake hit the southern Philippines on Friday, prompting tsunami warnings and evacuations of people in coastal areas of Mindanao.
The U.S. government has warned that air traffic controllers who repeatedly fail to report for duty during the shutdown could be fired, amid rising flight delays across the country.
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