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Armenia fights war with COVID-19 complicated by Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

Armenia fights war with COVID-19 complicated by Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

NVARD HOVHANNISYAN and MARIA TSVETKOVA EMMA Mkrtchyan died at home, bedridden and showing severe symptoms of COVID-19. Even though the 83-year-old Armenian's blood oxygen levels were far below normal, the ambulance called by her family refused to take her to hospital. "Even if they had taken her to hospital, there would anyway have been a queue and no places available," her daughter-in-law, Gayane Mkrtchyan, told Reuters. Armenia's healthcare system is dangerously overstretched as it deals with one of the world's worst COVID-19 outbreaks on top of an influx of refugees and soldiers wounded in Nagorno-Karabakh during the region's bloodiest fighting…
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Humanitarian crisis feared as Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire buckles

Humanitarian crisis feared as Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire buckles

NVARD HOVHANNISYAN and NAILIA BAGIROVA ARMENIA  and Azerbaijan accused each other on Tuesday of violating a ceasefire agreed three days ago to quell fighting over the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave, drawing warnings from international groups of a humanitarian crisis. The Russia-brokered truce is buckling despite mounting calls from world powers to halt the fighting, with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo among those urging greater commitment to the ceasefire terms. Turkey and Armenia exchanged recriminations, each blaming the other for exacerbating the crisis around Nagorno-Karabakh, which is internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan but governed and populated by ethnic Armenians. Earlier on…
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Azeris and Armenians say civilian areas attacked, NATO seeks ceasefire

Azeris and Armenians say civilian areas attacked, NATO seeks ceasefire

NVARD HOVHANNISYAN and NAILIA BAGIVORA ARMENIA and Azerbaijan accused each other on Monday of attacking civilian areas on the ninth day of the deadliest fighting in the South Caucasus region for more than 25 years. NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg added his voice to calls for an immediate end to the clashes over Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountain enclave that belongs to Azerbaijan under international law but is populated and governed by ethnic Armenians. But prospects for a ceasefire appeared remote after the fighting intensified over the weekend and following uncompromising comments by Azeri President Ilham Aliyev. In an address to the nation…
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Azerbaijan’s leader says no end to fighting until Armenia sets pullout timetable

Azerbaijan’s leader says no end to fighting until Armenia sets pullout timetable

NAILIA BAGIVORA and NVARD HOVHANNISYAN AZERBAIJAN’S President Ilham Aliyev has demanded that Armenia set a timetable for withdrawing from the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding Azeri territories, and said Azerbaijan would not cease military action until that happened. In a televised address to the nation, Aliyev said Azeri forces were advancing in a week-long offensive to retake lands that they lost to ethnic Armenians in the 1990s. "The Azeri soldier is chasing them like a dog, the Azeri soldier is standing at their posts, we have taken their weaponry, we are carrying out the mission of liberation," he declared. The…
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At least 16 dead in clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan

At least 16 dead in clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan

NVARD HOVHANNISYAN and NAILIA BAGIROVA AT least 16 military and several civilians have been killed in the heaviest clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan since 2016, reigniting concern about stability in the South Caucasus, a corridor for pipelines carrying oil and gas to world markets. The clashes between the two former Soviet republics, which fought a war in the 1990s, were the latest flare-up of a long-running conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, a breakaway region that is inside Azerbaijan but is run by ethnic Armenians. Nagorno-Karabakh said 16 of its serviceman had been killed and more than 100 wounded after Azerbaijan launched an…
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