Editor's note: Ivan Us, chief consultant of the Center for Foreign Policy Research of the National Institute for Strategic Studies (Ukraine), Ph.D. in Economics.

Journalist Kerim Sultanov discusses France's neocolonial policies in New Caledonia.

In a video interview with News.Az, Sun Taiyi, Associate Professor of Political Science Department of Political Science Christopher Newport University, said that the Middle Corridor is one of the important branches of China’s initiative One Belt, One Road.

Türkiye's Disaster Management Agency (AFAD) announced on Sunday that the country is sending a night vision search and rescue helicopter and 32 rescuers following a request from Iran, News.Az reports citing Anadolu Agency.

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has shared a post on his official page on the X social network about the emergency landing of the helicopter carrying President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ebrahim Raisi, News.Az reports.

An extensive search and rescue operation is underway after a helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was forced to make a "hard landing" in a mountainous region in northwestern Iran, News.Az reports citing IRNA.

Israel has delivered a retaliation strike on targets in southern Lebanon after about ten launches were made from there, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said, News.Az reports citing TASS.

A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and senior officials in northwestern Iran has suffered a crash with no information available yet on potential injuries or damage, News.Az reports citing IRNA.

Friendship and brotherhood between Azerbaijan and Iran are an important factor for the stability of the region and for the strengthening of future security, said Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev as he addressed a ceremony to commission the Khudafarin hydroelectric complex and inaugurate the Giz Galasi hydroelectric complex on the Araz River, News.Az reports.

With 18 more casualties, the death toll from heavy rains and floods in Afghanistan has reached 400, authorities said on Saturday, News.Az reports citing Anadolu Agency.