The plane crashed hundreds of kilometres to the east, near the Kazakh city of Aktau, killing 38 of the 67 passengers on board

Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 was downed on 25 December by a missile from a Pantsir-S1 system brought from Syria to Russia, killing 38 and injuring 29, sources reveal.View on euronews

Russian gas stopped flowing to Europe via Ukraine at the start of the year over Moscow's invasion of its neighbour. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Russia’s president is said to have blamed birds or a Ukrainian drone for a Dec. 25 crash of an Azerbaijani plane. Azerbaijan says Russian air defenses were at fault.

Seven people went on trial in Azerbaijan on Tuesday in the latest of a series of cases against staff of independent news media, prompting accusations of a crackdown on the press.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that Ukraine is ready to transport gas from Azerbaijan. Source: European Pravda; Volodymyr Zelenskyy at a press conference with Moldovan President Maia Sandu;

The actual weather observed in Azerbaijan has been reported. The weather conditions have been intermittently rainy in some eastern parts of Azerbaijan, Azernews reports citing the National Hydrometeorology Service. Specifically, the amount of rainfall recorded was 3 mm in Lankaran and up to 1 mm in Bilasuvar, Jalilabad, and Astara.

Aviation authorities in Azerbaijan have signed a collaboration agreement with NATS of the UK to modernize the country’s air traffic services.

Ex-Moscow investment banker Ruben Vardanyan and 15 other Armenian leaders of the formerly contested Nagorno-Karabakh region went on trial in Azerbaijan on Friday.

At a meeting with his Armenian counterpart in Moscow, Lavrov said the Kremlin was ready to assist in the normalisation of Armenia-Azerbaijan relations.View on euronews

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