One of the world's largest fancy vivid purple-pink and internally flawless diamonds from Russia will be sold at Sotheby's Geneva Magnificent Jewels and Noble Jewels auction on November 11, media reported on Monday

Russia in its capacity as a guarantor state for Syrian settlement might be planning new Astana-format talks with the participation of the Syrian sides later in October to give an impetus to the work of the Syrian Constitutional Committee (SCC), Mahmoud Afandi, the secretary of the Syrian opposition movement Popular Diplomacy, told Sputnik

A total of seven individuals who have been in close proximity to UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi are now self-isolating following his positive test result for COVID-19, UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Thursday

The United States confirms that it will participate in all meetings on Nagorno-Karabach convened under the auspices of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group, a US State Department spokesperson told Sputnik on Thursday

People in Syria are currently preoccupied by issues other than the change of the constitution, but Damascus is determined to continue the Geneva talks, Syrian President Bashar Assad told Sputnik

Armenian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Anna Naghdalyan refuted media reports saying that minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan was allegedly planning a meeting with his Azerbaijani counterpart, Jeyhun Bayramov, in Geneva on Thursday