The passenger aircraft of the Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL), flying from Beijing to Baku returned to the airport of Shoudu due to a technical reason, APA reports.

The process of voting on the plan of voluntary restructuring of obligations of the International Bank of Azerbaijan to foreign creditors has begun, which will end on July 18, 2017, the Bank told APA-Economics.

Russia, Iran and the United States are drawing new red lines for each other in Syria, with Moscow warning Washington on Monday it would treat any U.S.-led coalition planes in its area of operations as potential targets after the U.S. air force downed a Syrian jet, Reuters reports.

French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe tendered the government's resignation as a post-election formality on Monday to President Emmanuel Macron who asked him to form a new cabinet, Macron's office said.

Russia launched production of equipment necessary for the construction of new reactors at the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran, senior Russian official said.

EU will continue to seek to extend the Southern Gas Corridor to Central Asia, reads a document of the EU adopted on June 19, APA-Economics reports.

A delegation of the Navy of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam has visited the Naval Forces of Azerbaijan, AzerTag reports.

A Turkish court on Monday handed down a 15-month jail term to two Iraqi nationals for links to the Daesh terrorist group, a police source said, Anadolu reported.

The purpose of the joint work on the South-West corridor, which comprises railways of Azerbaijan, Iran, Georgia, Ukraine and Poland, is to create a new attractive logistics product, head of Azerbaijan Railways CJSC Javid Gurbanov told a meeting with officials from the five countries’ railway authorities in Baku.

A fire broke out on the roof of a nuclear reactor at the Bugey plant in central-eastern France, the country's nuclear regulator ASN said on Monday, APA reports quoting Reuters.