Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan will officially resign sometime during the last 10 days of April, a step that is necessary to hold planned June 20 early parliamentary elections.

The price of oil could plunge to as little as $10 a barrel by 2050 if the world succeeds in electrifying the energy market and meeting the Paris Agreement goals, analysis by consultancy Wood Mackenzie shows.

Ukraine’s defence minister said Russia’s military buildup could bring more troops into the region and potentially extend to using Crimea for storing nuclear weapons.

President Joe Biden told Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin the US stood by its “unwavering” support for Ukraine in defending its territory against a build-up by Russian troops, as tension between the superpowers skyrockets.

Though officials cite their reasoning based on reducing greenhouse emissions - and Azerbaijan is a signatory to the Paris accords - a slow but gradual decline in oil and gas export revenues makes the transition a necessity.