President Sandu says her resounding victory in the parliamentary vote means an end to the "rule of bandits"

On Sunday, a cameraman for the private outlet “TV Pirveli” Aleksandre Lashkarava, who had been badly beaten and hospitalised, died at home.

Oil production in June declined from 718,000 bpd produced in October 2018, when members of OPEC+ agreed to reduce oil production gradually.

Though an armistice is largely holding, border disputes remain common, and a final peace between Azerbaijan and Armenia is elusive.

The quantity of oil shipped through Azerbaijan, Georgia and on to Turkey and further into the Mediterranean market declined to 1.7 million tonnes in January to June this year.

The company said in April it would invest $200 million in the construction of a solar power plant with a capacity of 230 megawatts.