Italian film director Franco Zeffirelli has died aged 96, BBC reports.

The modern history of Azerbaijan is directly connected with the return of Heydar Aliyev to power in June 1993, the Deputy Prime Minister, Deputy Chairman and Executive Secretary of the ruling New Azerbaijan Party (NAP) Ali Ahmadov said at an event organized in the administrative building of the NAP in honor of June 15 - the National Salvation Day, Trend reports.

Over the past 24 hours, Armenian armed forces have violated the ceasefire along the line of contact between Azerbaijani and Armenian troops 20 times, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said on June 15.

The Prime Minister of Azerbaijan Novruz Mammadov and the President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon met on the sidelines of the Fifth Summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) in Dushanbe, Trend reports referring to the press service of the Tajik president.

Azerbaijan marks the National Salvation Day on June 15.