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The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan have held talks in Geneva on a future peace treaty, according to officials in Baku and Yerevan, following recent deadly clashes between the arch-foes. Last month, at least 286 people were killed on both sides before a United States-brokered truce ended...

A senior member of the Taliban-run government in Afghanistan has called on the country’s new rulers to reopen schools for girls beyond the sixth year, saying there is no valid reason in Islam for the ban. The appeal from Taliban Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai on...

Burkina Faso military leader Paul-Henri Damiba has been deposed in the country’s second coup in a year, as army Captain Ibrahim Traore took charge, dissolving the transitional government​, and suspending the constitution. Traore said on Friday evening that a group of officers had decided to remove...

Yemen’s warring sides have failed to reach an agreement to extend a nationwide ceasefire, the United Nations has said. In a statement, the UN’s envoy to Yemen called on all sides to refrain from acts of provocation as the talks continue, after an October 2 deadline for extending the agreement...

The video was released on Telegram channels on the morning of October 2, and it depicted a group of Azerbaijani soldiers shooting a group of unarmed Armenian soldiers. The office of Armenia’s human rights ombudsman said it had verified the authenticity of the video and that it was filmed during a...

The decision confirmed an earlier ruling that each of the women who worked in the brothels set up for U.S. soldiers should be compensated between 3 million won and 7 million won (about $2,092 to $4,881). The verdict also confirmed the existence of the brothels set up in U.S. military camptown in...

Peru's government proposed on Friday "a new approach" for mining companies to end social gaps and avoid conflicts in the sector, a measure taken after several conflicts in the country in recent months. Peru has planned investments of $53 billion in mining projects, many of them frozen or delayed...

More than 150 people were on board the small boat that sailed from crisis-hit Lebanon on Wednesday morning, with the hope of reaching Italy for a better life. Syrian state media reported that 97 people have died, 20 people have been rescued, and others are still missing, while according to the...

At least 76 protesters have been killed by Iranian security forces during 11 days of unrest sparked by the death of a woman in custody, activists say, and hundreds more, including journalists, have been arrested. Iran Human Rights (IHR), a Norway-based organisation, accused authorities of using...

Three former presidents of Albania and one of Kosovo on Wednesday visited ethnic Albanian former commanders in the fight against Serbian rule in Kosovo who are being held in a Netherlands prison pending trial for alleged war crimes. An EU-backed war crimes court and a linked prosecutor’s office...