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'Full-blown crisis': Karabakh blockade triggers shortages

Stepanakert (Azerbaijan) (AFP) - Zhanna Petrosyan's flat offers little protection as temperatures plummet below zero both within and outside its walls, leaving her family of six shivering amid the blockade of a disputed region of Azerbaijan.

AFP

Commentary: We can’t let history repeat itself with the siege of Nagorno-Karabakh

The world watched and allowed a brutal genocide three decades ago in the Bosnian city of Srebrenica. A tragically similar crisis is looming again. Global leaders know how this could end, and they have no excuse to stand by. Indeed, they are bound by law and human decency to intervene…

Los Angeles Times

Azerbaijan Targets Iranian ‘Espionage Network’

Azerbaijani security forces arrested at least seven people in a raid on the headquarters of a pro-Iranian news website in Baku. The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry meanwhile, called on its citizens to avoid unnecessary travel to Iran, days after an attack by armed men on the country’s embassy in Tehran killed…

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Armenia asks Russia's Putin to act to end Karabakh's isolation

Armenia on Tuesday asked President Vladimir Putin to take a tougher line on Nagorno-Karabakh and for Russian peacekeepers to end what it calls Azerbaijan's blockade of the Lachin corridor which leads to the enclave.

Reuters

Azerbaijan asks World Court to order Armenia to help demining effort

Azerbaijan on Tuesday called on judges at the World Court to order Armenia to help demine areas it previously controlled and stop planting explosive devices which prevent Azeri nationals from returning to their former homes.

Reuters

Azerbaijan to UN court: Armenia must stop sowing land mines

Azerbaijan is appealing to the United Nations’ highest court to urgently order Armenia to stop the laying of land mines and booby traps on Azerbaijani territory and disclose the location of such explosives that already have been placed

The Independent UK

Baku: Closure of Tehran Embassy Doesn't Mean Severing of Diplomatic Ties

Azerbaijan announced that the closure of its embassy in Tehran is "temporary" and "doesn't mean that diplomatic ties had been severed", days after a gunman stormed the mission, killing one guard and wounding two others. "The operation of Azerbaijan's embassy in Iran has been temporarily suspended following the evacuation of…

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Armenia tells World Court Azerbaijan blockade is 'ethnic cleansing'

Armenia told judges at the World Court on Monday that a blockade of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region by neighbouring Azerbaijan was designed to allow "ethnic cleansing", a claim rejected by Baku.

Reuters

Armenia urges UN court to order Azerbaijan to end road block

Armenia is pleading with judges of the United Nations’ highest court on Monday to order Azerbaijan to break up a road blockade that is isolating the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, calling the action part of an act of “ethnic cleansing.”

The Independent UK

Watch: World Court holds hearings in tit-for-tat Armenia-Azerbaijan cases

Judges at the International Court of Justice in The Hague heard requests for additional emergency measures as part of tit-for-tat cases filed by Armenia and Azerbaijan at the World Court in 2021 today, 30 January.

The Independent UK

Azerbaijan to Evacuate Embassy in Iran After Attack

Azerbaijan will evacuate embassy staff and family members from Iran on Sunday, the foreign ministry said, two days after a gunman shot dead a security guard and wounded two other people in an attack Baku branded an "act of terrorism". Police in Tehran have said they had arrested a suspect…

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Egypt, Azerbaijan Call to Eliminate Financing Terrorist Organizations

Egypt and Azerbaijan asserted the need for concerted efforts of the international community to combat terrorism and extremism at all levels, particularly financing terrorist groups and providing them with weapons and terrorist elements. President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi arrived in Baku, Azerbaijan, and held talks with the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham…

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Azerbaijan to evacuate embassy in Iran on Sunday after fatal shooting

Reuters

Iran says embassy attack should not affect Azerbaijan relations

Iran and Azerbaijan disagree on whether Friday’s attack on the Azeri embassy in Tehran constituted a ‘terrorist act’.

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Egypt’s Sisi Visits Azerbaijan as Part of Asia Tour

Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi arrived in Azerbaijan on Friday as part of a tour of Asia that has so far taken him to India. Presidency spokesman Bassam Rady said the visit to Baku aims to bolster the unique ties that bind their countries. Sisi will meet with President Ilham…

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Gulf, Arab Countries Slam Attack on Azerbaijan’s Embassy in Tehran

Saudi Arabia strongly condemned on Thursday the attack on Azerbaijan’s embassy in the Iranian capital Tehran. The Foreign Ministry expressed the Kingdom’s solidarity with Azerbaijan and its people, calling for respecting diplomatic missions and the punishment of the perpetrators. Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Secretary-General Dr. Nayef Al-Hajraf slammed the attack,…

AFP

One killed in attack on Azerbaijan embassy in Iran

Tehran (AFP) - A gunman stormed Azerbaijan's embassy in Tehran on Friday, killing the mission's head of security in an attack Iran said was motivated by personal reasons but Baku labelled an act of "terrorism".

The Independent UK

Gunman kills security chief at Azerbaijan Embassy in Iran

A man armed with a Kalashnikov-style rifle has attacked the Azerbaijan Embassy in Iran’s capital, killing the head of security at the diplomatic post and wounding two guards

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Gunman Kills Security Chief at Azerbaijan Embassy in Iran

A man armed with a Kalashnikov-style rifle attacked the Azerbaijan Embassy in Iran's capital Friday, killing the head of security at the diplomatic post and wounding two guards, authorities said. No one immediately offered a motive for the attack in Tehran.

Reuters

Guard killed in shooting at Azerbaijan's embassy in Iran

A security official was killed and two people were wounded when a shooter opened fire at Azerbaijan's embassy in Iran, Azerbaijan's foreign ministry said on Friday.

Reuters

Russia slams new EU mission to Armenia, says it will stoke tensions

Russia sharply criticised on Thursday a decision by the European Union to establish a new civilian mission in Armenia, saying it would only further stoke "geopolitical confrontation" in a region plagued by tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

The Guardian - UK

Azerbaijan sues Armenia for wartime environmental damage

Case brought under Bern convention on nature may set precedent for destruction of biodiversity in war

Reuters

Russia says it is working hard to resolve Armenia-Azerbaijan dispute

Russia said on Tuesday it was working hard to resolve a dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Lachin corridor, the sole road linking Armenia to the Armenian-populated enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.

AFP

Semi-finalist Khachanov defends Australian Open 'Artsakh' messages

Melbourne (AFP) - Karen Khachanov defended himself Tuesday after his support at the Australian Open for a contested Armenian enclave sparked a strongly worded complaint from Azerbaijan tennis officials.

The Independent UK

I have Armenian roots – Karen Khachanov angers Azerbaijan with Artsakh support

The Russian, who is of Armenian heritage, has written messages on the camera lens after two victories in Melbourne

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