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Armenia and Azerbaijan speak different diplomatic languages, Armenia's leader says
YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said Saturday that his country and Azerbaijan are speaking “different diplomatic languages” even though they were able to agree on the basic principles for a peace treaty. Azerbaijan waged a lightning military...
Top UN court orders Azerbaijan to ensure the safety of Nagorno-Karabakh people
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The U.N. top court on Friday issued an order calling on Azerbaijan to ensure the safety of people who leave, return to or remain in Nagorno-Karabakh, following the Azerbaijani military’s retaking of the separatist region in September. Armenia asked...
Azerbaijan's president addresses a military parade in Karabakh and says 'we showed the whole world'
Hundreds of Azerbaijani soldiers paraded Wednesday through Khankendi, the capital city of the Karabakh region that came under full control of Azerbaijan in September after a lightning rout of ethnic Armenian forces. “We showed the whole world the strength, determination and...
Sabitzer scores from the spot in Baku to send Austria to European Championship
BRUSSELS (AP) — Substitute Marcel Sabitzer scored from the penalty spot on Monday shortly after entering the game to secure a 1-0 win for Austria at Azerbaijan and send his country to next year's European Championship. After losing 3-2 to Belgium in Vienna last week in the fight...
Azerbaijanis who fled a separatist region decades ago ache to return, but it could be a long wait
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — As a young man starting out as a dentist, Nazim Valiyev was forced to flee his home as ethnic violence roiled a separatist region inside Azerbaijan. More than three decades later, with his medical career over after a stroke, the 60-year-old hopes he can return there, now...
Azerbaijan's president raises the nation's flag in a former breakaway region's capital
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has raised his nation’s flag over the capital city of a former breakaway region in a ceremony reaffirming Baku’s control over it. The Azerbaijani leader delivered a speech and raised the flag over the city, which is known as Khankendi by...
Armenia wants a UN court to impose measures aimed at protecting rights of Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Armenia urged the United Nations top court on Thursday to impose new interim orders on Azerbaijan to prevent what the leader of Armenia's legal team called the “ethnic cleansing” of the Nagorno-Karabakh region from becoming irreversible. Armenia...
Israeli arms quietly helped Azerbaijan retake Nagorno-Karabakh, to the dismay of region's Armenians
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel has quietly helped fuel Azerbaijan’s campaign to recapture Nagorno-Karabakh, supplying powerful weapons to Azerbaijan ahead of its lightening offensive last month that brought the ethnic Armenian enclave back under its control, officials and experts say. ...
War and political instability will likely take center stage at a summit of European leaders in Spain
GRANADA, Spain (AP) — European leaders will gather Thursday at one of the most renowned havens of tranquility — Spain's Alhambra Palace — in an attempt to fix their increasingly turbulent continent where war and political instability are starting to unhinge nations and institutions. ...
Azerbaijan arrests several former top separatist leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh
Authorities in Azerbaijan arrested several former separatist leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh on Tuesday after reclaiming control of the Armenian-populated breakaway region in a lightning military operation last month, a top Azerbaijani news agency said. Arayik Harutyunyan, who led the...
