MOSCOW (Reuters) -The death toll from an explosion and fire at a fuel depot in Nagorno-Karabakh has risen to 68, with a further 105 people missing and nearly 300 injured, the office of Karabakh’s ombudsman said on Tuesday. The blast occurred as thousands of ethnic Armenians fled the breakaway enclave after their fighters were defeated …
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan has received its first shipment of liquified petroleum gas from Russia, Moscow’s embassy in Islamabad said on Tuesday, marking Islamabad’s second major Russian energy purchase. The shipment, which the embassy said was delivered with Iranian help, comes after Pakistan received its first-ever delivery of Russian crude under a deal struck between …
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By Fatos Bytyci PRISTINA (Reuters) – The U.S. is working with Kosovo to investigate a shootout that killed four people last weekend, the U.S. ambassador to Kosovo said on Tuesday, speaking after the deadliest violence to hit the contested region in years. Kosovo authorities said around 30 heavily armed Serbs stormed the village of Banjska …
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By Andrew Gray BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Azerbaijan has no intention of taking military action to create a land corridor in southern Armenia, the foreign policy adviser to Azerbaijan’s president said on Tuesday. Azerbaijan’s military operation last week to take control of the ethnic Armenian-dominated enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh has stoked Armenian fears that Baku may now …
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By Felix Light KORNIDZOR, Armenia (Reuters) – Vera Petrosyan, a 70-year-old retired teacher, said she and her family fled their home in Nagorno-Karabakh with just the clothes they were wearing and does not believe she will ever be able to return after Azerbaijani forces seized the region last week. “I left everything behind. I don’t …
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -North Korea’s United Nations envoy accused the United States and South Korea on Tuesday of pushing the Korean peninsula closer to the brink of nuclear war, telling the U.N. General Assembly that as a result his country had no choice but to further accelerate a build-up of its self-defense …
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By Felix Light and Guy Faulconbridge NEAR KORNIDZOR, Armenia (Reuters) -Hungry and exhausted Armenian families jammed roads to flee homes in the defeated breakaway enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, while the United States called on Azerbaijan to protect civilians and let in aid. The Armenians of Karabakh – part of Azerbaijan beyond Baku’s control since the dissolution …
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By Hyunsu Yim SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s constitutional court ruled on Tuesday the ban on sending propaganda leaflets to North Korea was unconstitutional, striking down a law passed in 2020 by the liberal party of then President Moon Jae-in, who sought better ties with Pyongyang. The law, which subjects violators to up to three …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s industry minister plans to visit France later this week to attend the International Energy Agency (IEA) summit on critical minerals and clean energy as the country strengthens its diplomacy to secure key metals. Yasutoshi Nishimura, Japanese minister of economy, trade and industry, has been travelling overseas quite often this year as …
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By Neil Jerome Morales MANILA (Reuters) -The Philippines vowed on Tuesday not to back down in the face of a Chinese effort to block its fishermen from a fiercely contested shoal in the South China Sea, while Beijing warned the Southeast Asian nation not to “provoke and cause trouble”. The comments came a day after …
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